Time To Read is Time Warner Cable's volunteer literacy mentoring program. Started in 1985 by Time Inc. to address the crisis of low levels of literacy among American children, the program now operates at numerous locations across the country, involving more than 6,500 reading mentors and learners.

Time To Read is designed for children in grades 4-6 and teens who read at or above the fourth-grade level. TTR's reading mentors serve as tutors and role models, helping children and adolescents succeed in school through stronger reading skills and greater confidence.

Time To Read trains reading mentors, provides magazines and other reading material along with a specialized curriculum, and evaluates all program sites. The magazines become the property of the program's learners and provide a shared reading resource in their homes.

Other Time Warner divisions - Home Box Office, Time Inc., and Turner Networks - all sponsor programs in their local communities, where employees, college and high school students and community members participate as volunteers.

Time To Read has been recognized for excellence by the President's Volunteer Action Award, the Council on Economic Priorities' Corporate Conscience Award and the Points of Light Foundation Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service. In addition, Time Warner Cable has received numerous local awards for the program.