The TAMIU-LBV Literacy Partnership is a community engagement initiative of TAMIU funded by the Lamar Bruni Vergara Charitable Trust.

With a joint effort from the university, the LBV Trust, Laredo ISD, and United ISD, the Partnership has established a total of nine Literacy Centers at eight elementary schools, in order to promote grade-level reading in early elementary years. With a research-based intervention model, the Partnership has served thousands of struggling young readers, who were generally 1.5 or 2 years behind their peers in terms of literacy development, to close the gap and achieve significantly improve literacy development since 2015