Dear Friends,

While there are many worthy causes for you to contribute to, our adult literacy program needs your help. For twenty 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 Newland Center 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 Newland Center 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. TNC 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

“My Brother’s Keeper”, produced by Intelecom.com, about a young New York woman whose life was turned around by an adult literacy program. Her story is typical of many of the young adults with great potential that come to The Newland Center seeking help. And through your financial contributions and/or volunteer service you can share in many more successful outcomes one person at a time. Click in the iimage below to watch the video.

Become a Volunteer and make a difference.

To participate as a volunteer in an adult literacy program, you do not have to have teaching experience. Like The Newland Center, most non-profit adult literacy groups depend on volunteers to provide both the educational services they offer and other organizational support functions that are needed. And like The Learning Place, adult literacy groups provide training programs for volunteer tutors as well as student reading materials and workbooks that are specifically targeted to the needs of adults. Your committment to the literacy movement will help us build a stronger a community.

As a volunteer you bring to The Newland Center unique life experiences, skills and interests to work with and help others. You share and help develop the excitement that reading, writing and other education skills bring to your student’s life. Volunteering is a two-way street. At The Newland Center our motto is, “We learn from each other.” When you give your time and expertise to literacy, you get back: the satisfaction of improving someone’s quality of life, new skills and personal growth; and even a little something to add to your resume.

If you are a resident of our Syracuse, NY community and wish more information about participation or wish to make a tax-deductible contribution to The Learning Place, please call (315) 471-1446 or send an e-mail message to director@thelearningplace.org and we will contact you.

If you are not a resident of our community area and would like to locate an adult literacy program in your community, click the button below to transfer to the. ProLiteracy Worldwide web site for information.