Featured Laundromat Partners
The Stanford Coin Wash
The Stanford Coin Wash is located in the Bay-Area of Northern California. 50% of the Laundromats visitors come from Hispanic backgrounds. The Creative Destination is focused on donating books to the laundromat in both English and Spanish for the space!
Laundry Literacy Cares Coalition
We are honored to begin a partnership with Laundry Literacy Cares Coalition to help The Creative Destination find Laundromats in need of creative spaces.
Help us create literacy laundromat spaces
Your donation to GoFundMe will help to purchase new bookshelves for each of our laundromat spaces and books in Spanish and English for kids.
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Reading at the laundromat
This is a great way to encourage parent-to-child conversations and literacy!
It was amazing to see a mom reading with her daughter in one of our literacy laundromat spaces!
FEATUREd Laundromat Spaces
Stanford Coin Wash: Completed
The Stanford Coin Wash was The Creative Destination's first laundromat literacy space. With the help of generous donors, we could put a bookshelf, table, and chairs in the laundromat to create this space. Fun fact: The chairs were donated by a local preschool helping to keep furniture out of landfills!
Rengstorff Laundromat: Completed
This laundromat serves a predominantly Hispanic population. The books in this space are beginning picture books to provide kids the opportunity to practice their English skills and we will be placing new Spanish books in the space as well!
Hill Top Wash and Dry: Completed
20.2% of Santa Cruz residents live below the poverty line. This is 11.1 thousand residents out of every 50.1 thousand. This is higher than the national average which is 12.8%. Having literacy spaces in this area encourages reading and education which can combat negative influences that often can cause homelessness.
41st Street Laundromat: Completed
The Creative Destination is creating this laundromat with the same goal of encouraging literacy in Santa Cruz, California.
Lake Merritt Laundromat: Completed
This laundromat is located in Oakland, California. In the 2021-2022 school year across district and charter schools, only 36% of third graders were reading at grade level. About 35% of all students in each grade were reading at grade level in Oakland.
Launderland Menlo Park:Completed
This laundromat is located on the cusp of East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. It was a great joy to see kids enjoying books in this laundromat space.
East Palo Alto Laundromat: Completed
In the East Palo Alto District only 41% of students tested at or above proficiency in reading.
The literacy rate in East Palo Alto is 38% lower than the literacy rate in the Palo Alto Unified School Disitrict. This district has a literacy rate of 79%.
Belmont Laundromat: In Progress
