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Help us reach the 1 out of every 5 Syracuse adults who need help with adult literacy programs.
Dear Friends,
While there are many worthy causes for you to contribute to, our adult literacy program needs your help. For fifteen years we have been providing literacy services to the Syracuse community. Like many non profits we struggle to raise funds.
According to our Read Ahead partners at The Central New York Community Foundation, there are 61,000 residents in the Onondaga area that need literacy help. Our providers are only able to reach about 10% of that population.
Every week, older youth and adults walk into The Learning Place in need of services. Without literacy, these individuals cannot assist their own children in learning to read and write or complete homework assignments, or manage a checking account. The Learning Place is a unique literacy organization that accepts and places individuals that other organizations have turned away. Here, students find comfort in our home-like setting at the main headquarters on East Genesee Street and our second site on Midland Avenue. For the first time, they encounter success through our encouragement, guidance, and one-on-one tutoring process.
We are a small grassroots organization relying heavily on 80 volunteers and an annual budget of under $100,000. TLP depends on businesses and individual donors to sustain our basic but life-transforming literacy services.
Please consider a tax-deductible donation of $25, $50, $100 or more to help us continue reaching our adult neighbors. Your donation will be greatly appreciated and will be used to benefit those that we work with. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you for your consideration to partner with us as we serve others.
Regards,
Linda Green
Executive Director
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