Is Reading is Fundamental doomed?

A change in the way that the federal government is planning to allocate funds to increase literacy may severely hamper some non-profit organizations who are currently running literacy programs the best known of which is the Reading is Fundamental or RIF program. As is reported in the NY times article "U.S. Plan Threatens Free-Book Group", RIF stands to lose all of its federal financing, which accounts for roughly 75 percent of its annual revenues through this change. RIF is mainly involved with giving out free books to under-privileged children to enhance their literacy.