Shining a spotlight on a solution for literacy
On Oct. 17, 2018, General Motors gave us a $250,000 grant to help expand our work to families through the Beyond Basics Family Literacy Center. Terry Rhadigan, General Motors’ executive director of Corporate Giving, expressed the spirit of the donation beautifully: “We don’t view this as a charitable contribution. It’s an investment in the people of this great city, Detroit.”
We are so grateful for this generous investment and for the attention that the Beyond Basics Family Literacy Center has brought to the community. The story ran nationally thanks to our friends at the
Associated Press
, and statewide with a story that aired on the Lansing ABC affiliate and across our region on all three local TV stations. We also had interviews on WJR 760 AM’s Mitch Albom Show, and with Nolan Finley on 910 AM Superstation, as well as news coverage on WDET 101.9 FM (Detroit Public Radio) and WWJ Newsradio 950 AM.
Only through literacy can we break the generational cycle of poverty in families and create opportunities to rebuild our communities, one person, one family, one neighborhood at a time.
Illiteracy is the largest solvable disability in America, which impacts each of us. With a crisis of this magnitude it will take all of us coming together to address it. What a wonderful day that will be when we focus on bringing literacy to everyone.
Thank you for being a part of this journey.
