Evidence-based, multi-sensory literacy enrichment delivered through the connective tissue of community — teachers, volunteers, and the children they serve.
Little Free Library — Sarasota County park
Take a book. Return a book.
Engaging literacy instruction and enrichment for children — built by connecting preservice education students, teachers, and volunteers.
Project Read Together, Inc. is a Sarasota-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2016 with a single, stubborn conviction: that literacy is not a luxury, and that the communities who most need reading resources are often the ones most equipped to distribute them — if only given the structure.
The organization develops programs that enhance literacy efforts for children and their families, channeling grants and donations into the neighborhoods where they are most needed. Every initiative rests on the same evidence-based, multi-sensory foundation: reading is taught best when it is taught together.
The PRT team — Sarasota County
Founder & President, 2016–2020
As founder and President of Project Read Together, Professor Anna Vigliotti built the organization from the ground up — writing grants, distributing resources, and placing them into the specific corners of Sarasota County where children stood to benefit most.
Her work extends beyond PRT. As a State College of Florida professor, she created Professor V’s Teaching Café — an online gathering place recognized by the Florida House of Representatives as a model for engaging students across diverse, international learning environments.
Through grants, partnerships, and a stubborn belief in the ritual of the neighborhood bookshelf, Project Read Together donated four Little Free Libraries to Sarasota County parks. They are still serving the community today — quietly, continuously, one book at a time.
Awarded for volunteer efforts on the 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service — a project that “exemplified the dream” through literacy outreach. Presented by State Representative Darryl Rouson and Dr. Carol Probstfeld, President of the State College of Florida, Manatee–Sarasota.
An official letter recognizing Professor Vigliotti’s creation of Professor V’s Teaching Café — an online learning environment designed to help students thrive in a global, diverse classroom.
Rep. Greg Steube commends Professor Vigliotti’s Teaching Café — the seed of a broader community-literacy vision.
PRT incorporates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. First Little Free Library installations begin at Sarasota County parks.
PRT receives the Martin Luther King Day of Service Grant from the State College of Florida, Manatee–Sarasota.
By 2020, PRT has donated four Little Free Libraries across Sarasota County parks — all of which remain active today.
Visit one. Take a book. Leave a book. That’s all it was ever supposed to be — and it’s still exactly what it is.