Gift 
How Your Gift Helps
 

Thanks to donors like you, CLC provides free literacy instruction to adults in our community who lack the basic skills many of us take for granted.  Even though there is no charge for the assistance we offer adult learners, the service is far from free.  You may wonder what your donor dollar buys.  As you may know, CLC tutors are volunteers, but each one attends a 15-hour workshop to be trained to work with adult learners.  Student texts, workbooks, and educational resources must also be purchased, and instructional technology is provided.  There are also tutoring spaces and a professional staff to coordinate it all. Since July 2014 your gifts supported 99 tutors assisting 198 adult learners who logged 10,031 tutoring hours at an average cost of $12.25 per hour.  Starting with the next CLC newsletter, we will look at each area in more detail so you will know exactly how your gift helps.  

 

The need for literacy skills continues to grow.  If you would like to make an ongoing commitment to support adult literacy, we invite you to become a CLC Literacy Leader.  Click Here For More Info.

 


Digital 
 The Digital Literacy Divide

One in five American adults cannot access or use the Internet.


 

In today's tech-centric world, even basic literacy skills simply aren't enough. Adults need computer skills and access to technology to succeed in our society, whether they're trying to apply for a job online, find accurate health information on the Internet, or simply send an email to their child's teacher.  But low literacy skills and poverty keep many people from seizing the opportunities of our digital society. In fact, adults without a high school education and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year are the least likely to have Internet access-much less an understanding of how to use the technology.  Craven Literacy Council is thankful for your support that allows us to teach basic computer skills to individuals in our community.  Together we are decreasing the digital literacy divide.   

 

- See more at: http://www.proliteracy.org/the-crisis/the-us-crisis#sthash.p2B4gC1S.dpuf

 

 


Tutor  
Meet a Tutor and Learner

Mary Helen Boone and Denise Ellis


 

Being a young single mother brings significant challenges. Knowing that the best way to improve her family's situation was to get a good paying job, Denise Ellis reached out to Craven Literacy Council for a tutor to help improve her reading and writing skills. In December, 2008, Denise met her tutor, Mary Helen Boone, and they have been working together ever since!


 

That commitment is an outstanding accomplishment; few tutor/student pairs invest that many years together. The result is a wonderful bond between these two women. Mary Helen has served as cheerleader, friend, inspiration, and shoulder-to-lean-on and she feels such pride to see the growth that Denise has made. Denise considers Mary Helen to be an important member of her "family" and is very appreciative of the encouragement and support that Mary Helen provided. They both consider themselves honored to share their story.   (Click Here To Read Their Story)

 

 


  Trivia  

Trivia Night a Success

Congratulations to the Quizzly Bears!

CLC's first Trivia Night was an evening filled with laughter and FUN!  Congratulations to the Quizzly Bears for being the grand prize winners!  And a very special thanks to them for their generosity in donating their winnings back to the Literacy Council!

The Quizzly Bears
 2015 Trivia Night Winners

The evening raised almost $10,000 for Literacy.    We would like to give a shout out to our event sponsors:  Carolina East Medical Center; Mary Ann Harrison; Craven County Insurance Agents; Nancy and Steve Przybylko; Trent Cadillac, Buick, GMC; Craven PT and Spine; Eastern Aviation and Fuels; Edward Jones Investments; Steve and Janna Tyson; CopyPro, and Pecheles Honda.

 

Many thanks to all who came out to support adult literacy in our community.  Like us on Facebook to learn about future events and fun ways to support literacy.