This week, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded Literacy Lubbock a $10,000 grant to support adult literacy.
Literacy Lubbock is a non-profit (tax exempt under Section 501(c) (3) of the IRS Code) education and human services agency which was organized in 1989. It has been a partner agency of the Lubbock Area United Way since 1999. Literacy Lubbock provides Adult Basic Education in Beginning Reading (ABE), English as a Second Language (ESL), GED Study (all subject areas), Dyslexia Training, and Early Childhood and Family Literacy programs and events at no cost to adult learners or children. Literacy Lubbock provides individual volunteer tutors or small classroom instruction to adult learners who request our help to enable them to achieve their personal literacy goals. By carefully matching trained literacy volunteers with adult learners in both tutor and adult learner paired settings and additionally in classroom settings, Literacy Lubbock is able to provide personalized study through high impact individualized prescriptive lessons, books, and training for interested individuals in a very cost effective manner, and free to our adult learners.
Literacy Lubbock makes every attempt to accommodate all requests for literacy support and to keep pace with the increased volume of requests for assistance regarding literacy issues from adult learners in the Lubbock community and the surrounding areas of the South Plains. Literacy Lubbock continues to create new partnerships and learning opportunities in order to accommodate all requests for assistance. We believe that the support and encouragement of Literacy Lubbock will enable individuals and families to move toward self-sufficiency and improve their lives and futures forever through the immense empowerment of the survival skill of Literacy, unequaled as the most vital of all life skills and the paramount foundation for the development of human potential.
“It is exciting to see the impact grants from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation make throughout the country, especially as we cross the $100 million threshold in overall donations and the difference it has made to nearly six million people,” said Rick Dreiling, Dollar General’s chairman and CEO. “The Dollar General Literacy Foundation truly embodies the company’s mission of Serving Others throughout the communities we serve.”
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation is proud to support initiatives that help others improve their lives through literacy and education. Since its inception in 1993, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded more than $100 million in grants to nonprofit organizations, helping nearly six million individuals take their first steps toward literacy or continued education. For more information about the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and its grant programs, visit www.dgliteracy.org.
(Press release from Dollar General Literacy Foundation)
