My Nonprofit Reviews

For five years, I have been a tutor in this outstanding program. After a 36-year career in advertising, and totally taking literacy for granted, I discovered in my retirement the profound impact this program has on lives. For the learners, who are so incredibly motivated and so appreciative to learn and assimilate into our culture and society, many with the goal to give back....to the tutors who are so humbled seeing the results of our efforts. Parents participate more in their kids' schools, get better jobs, take higher ed classes, get drivers licenses and some even reach the level of professionalism they left behind in their native countries. Amazingly, each of my learners have told me "volunteerism" isn't something they ever experienced before and believe it is a wonderful American anomaly. In addition, the one-on-one tutoring is the merely the tip of the iceberg re: all the classes and on-going activities the program offers. I am proud to be a very small part of this wonderful and vital anomaly.