WHO WE ARE aMaze is a non-profit organization of parents, educators and other caring adults working to create safe and respectful communities by promoting the knowledge and skills needed to work together across our differences.

WHAT WE DO Through the Families All Matter Book Project, we allow children to explore diversity issues through reading. We also provide presentations and consultation to groups seeking to cultivate their understanding of diversity.

We decided to use children's literature to explore themes that capture the wide range of family diversity in today's schools. In the fall of 1996, the Families All Matter Book Project was launched in a second-grade classroom using parent volunteers as readers. Later that school year, we were invited to lead the Book Project in all of the 1st – 4th- grade classrooms. Teachers appreciated having parent volunteers. They liked seeing their students talking about families and interacting with each other about family differences. Students loved the Book Project — they enjoyed being read to by parents, learning together about families, and working in their journals.

As the Book Project's popularity blossomed, we developed Reader Trainings to prepare new volunteer readers and provided mentoring assistance to the growing number of schools that wanted to implement the project. In 2000, we incorporated as a nonprofit called aMaze. Thousands of children in hundreds of schools, religious organizations and community groups have experienced our work.

aMaze is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization