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Summer Adventures in Learning (SAIL) is expanding its learning programs into the Black Belt along with other communities in Alabama. 

SAIL is a nonprofit that provides summer education for children and is partnering with 54 summer learning programs to operate at 84 sites across 31 counties, sharing almost $1 million in grants from 15 philanthropic groups. 

Among these partnerships is the Alabama Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs. 

“This has been a year of unprecedented growth for SAIL, as more communities recognize the value of our whole-child, community-based approach to summer learning,” said Jim Wooten, president of the Summer Adventures in Learning Board of Directors, in a press release.

“One-third of the programs in our network this summer have joined in the past two years. We’re especially excited about our new partnership with the Alabama Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, which helps extend SAIL’s reach into more rural and underserved parts of the state at a time when many schools are facing reduced resources for summer learning.”

Among initiatives in the Black Belt is SAIL Reads, a literacy program in partnership with the Montgomery Education Foundation. 

Programs in the Black Belt for 2025 are: 

  • A.K.R.O.N. SPARK – Special Program in Arithmetic and Reading for Kids (Akron)
  • BAMA Kids Summer Enrichment Program (Camden)
  • CFRD Summer Enrichment Program 2025 ( Eutaw)
  • Sadie Moss Summer Learning Institute (Selma)
  • SAIL and Bridging the Gap (Demopolis)
  • Sawyerville Summer Learning Program (Greensboro)
  • Summer Brain Gain (Aliceville)
  • Summer Brain Gain (Greensboro)
  • Summer Brain Gain (Jaycee Park, Tuscaloosa)
  • Summer Brain Gain (Moundville)
  • Summer Brain Gain (Stillman Heights, Tuscaloosa)
  • Vredenburgh Summer Camp (Vredenburgh)

For more information, visit sailalabama.org.

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