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Current Featured Site:
Wisconsin Literacy
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Wisconsin Literacy is a statewide nonprofit coalition of adult, family and workplace literacy providers dedicated to strengthening Wisconsin's workforce, families and communities through literacy. The coalition supports 52 literacy organizations through advocacy, program development, information and referral, resource development and training.
Wisconsin Literacy member organizations enlist more than 3,500 trained volunteer tutors to provide one-to-one literacy instruction to more than 14,000 basic skills and English language learners each year.
Wisconsin Literacy's network reaches adults:
- who need to learn English or improve their literacy skills to get a job or find a better job.
- who need customized schedules due to juggling work and parenting responsibilities.
- who have learning disabilities that require individualized instruction.
- who live in urban or remote locations.
- who prefer confidentiality as they learn to read, write or speak English.
- who have had difficulty learning at large educational institutions in the past.
Wisconsin Literacy plans to try to meet the rising demand for services among adult literacy programs in Wisconsin by holding a "Twelve Hundred Tutors in Twelve Weeks" campaign this fall. This statewide recruitment effort, funded completely by Verizon, challenges Wisconsin Literacy member organizations to pledge to recruit and train a specific number of tutors during twelve weeks. The campaign will begin on September 8, International Literacy Day, and end on December 1. Upon completion of the campaign, Wisconsin Literacy will reimburse members a dollar amount for each tutor recruited and trained.
Please contact the literacy provider in your area to help them meet their tutor training goal! You can find contact information on Wisconsin Literacy's website at www.wisconsinliteracy.org/find_us.php.
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