SMART Reading is a children's literacy non-profit, volunteer-driven tutoring program local to Oregon for at-risk K-3 readers. SMART was developed by Neil Goldschmidt and the law firm Ater Wynne Hewitt Dodson & Skerritt, LLP in 1992.Baker, Scott, Russell Gersten and Thomas Keating. When less may be more: A 2-year longitudinal evaluation of a volunteer tutoring program requiring minimal training. Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 35, Number 4; Oct-Dec. 2000. It has grown from serving 585 children at 8 schools at its inception to serving 7,244 children at 204 sites in 2009,Smart Annual Report 2008-2009 and 223 sites in 2011. As of December 2011, the organization's annual budget was $2.7 million.
