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GET INVOLVED
Learn To Read
- Call toll free 1-866-705-READ (1-866-705-7323) for information
Be A read ahead Volunteer
- Contribute your time and talent as a volunteer tutor with a local literacy program.
- Serve on the board of a literacy organization
- If you are an employer, encourage your employees to volunteer or give release time for volunteer training
- Let literacy organizations use your workplace to train tutors and teach students
- Call toll free 1-866-705-READ (1-866-705-7323) for volunteer opportunities
Become A Donor
- Make financial gifts or donate gifts-in-kind (books, supplies, materials, services, etc.) to support a literacy organization or program
- Not sure which organization or program to support? You can make a tax-deductible gift to read ahead and support a wide range of literacy providers in our community, click here to make a donation.
Be An Advocate
- Be a lifelong learner
- Encourage others to be lifelong learners
- Read with the children in your family
- Let politicians and community leaders know what you think about literacy
- Do a "literacy audit" to identify and address the barriers that your organization or workplace may present to people with low literacy skills
- Invite speakers from literacy groups to speak at your service club or other membership organization
- Support family-friendly policies for education
- Publish stories about lifelong learning or literacy success stories in your newsletters
- Create discussion about literacy among your peers and friends
- Use plain language in your written and spoken communications
- Encourage awareness and sensitivity toward less literate people
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