Room to Read has spent decades putting books in children's hands across 19 countries. With 1,600 staff, thousands of original children's book titles, and campaigns that span photography, video, and programmatic content, the creative infrastructure behind that mission is vast.

For years, it ran on systems that weren't built for it. SharePoint. Manual downloads. Assets that couldn't be shared externally and searches that went nowhere.

For an organization whose entire reason for existing is to change the world, time lost to file management is children not reached. That math made the case for change.

Air became the organizational backbone Room to Read needed. Tagging and metadata made thousands of assets searchable in seconds. Video could be scrubbed and reviewed without downloading. A Canva integration eliminated the upload-download loop that had quietly drained hours from the team.

For a team spread across continents, the shift was immediate—and rare.

Internal adoption climbed. Onboarding became seamless. And when Room to Read launched "She Creates Change"—a multimedia campaign built on high-volume video storytelling—Air handled it without friction.

Air has also supported Room to Read pro bono, allowing the organization to direct 86% of its revenue straight to its programs. For a nonprofit where every dollar is accounted for, that's not a footnote. It's part of the model.

Room to Read's latest project puts that infrastructure to a different kind of test—one where what's at stake isn't workflow, but language itself.

The Indigenous Book Collection is seven titles representing seven Indigenous nations, each authored and illustrated by members of that nation, in partnership with Native-owned publisher Black Bears and Blueberries. The books weave English with key words and phrases from each nation—languages at risk of being lost. Some of the authors grew up when speaking their own language was illegal; with native speakers disappearing at an alarming rate, these books are part of a race against time. 14,000 copies will reach more than 33,000 Indigenous students across classrooms, libraries, and communities in the U.S.

Room to Read brought the authors and illustrators together for a three-day workshop timed to the largest Choctaw powwow, with Air as the shared workspace—housing every PDF, presentation, recording, and visual asset the group built from. For many, this was their first book: a chance for kids like them to finally see themselves on the page.

Watch the full video above to hear the authors tell it themselves.