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Volunteer Recruitment and Retention: Eliminate Barriers to Placement

Let’s talk about something that many programs have dealt with: when new volunteers sign up but don’t complete their training or take assignments.

October 11, 2023

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International Women’s Day: Education Fuels Gender Equality

Day in and day out, ProLiteracy works in the US and internationally to educate women, which is one of the foundations to achieving gender equality.

March 8, 2024

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Facts & Research

Why and How a Statewide Literacy Network is Reinventing its Basic Literacy Program

Literacy NJ is taking steps to prioritize adults at the lowest literacy levels by implementing a new Steps to Success initiative.

March 6, 2024

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Volunteer Recruitment and Retention: Encourage Volunteers to Spread the Word

According to the 2000 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering, and Participating, there are four main reasons people don’t volunteer.

March 4, 2024

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Build a Book Club, and Build a Love of Reading Among Adult Learners

It's National Reading Month, and in partnership with Gemma, we’ve outlined every step to starting a book club for your adult students to build positive and successful experiences that instill a love of reading.

February 29, 2024

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From the Desk of the CEO: Changing the Systems that Perpetuate Poverty and Low Literacy

Adults don’t stay low literate because they didn’t want to learn how to read—their economic status set them up to fail from the time they were young.

February 27, 2024

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Impact Stories

Multilingual Instruction Can Help the World Access Education

Worldwide, 40% of the population—or hundreds of millions of people—do not have access to an education in a language they speak or understand.

February 21, 2024

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