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National Literacy Action Network

National LAN Programs

Antioch College

Center for Community Learning

Antioch College
795 Livermore St.
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

Antioch Literacy Corps

Nicole Novak
Coordinator, ALC (Americorps*VISTA)
937.769.1157

The Center for Community Learning is the central resource area at Antioch College for any student, faculty or staff interested in community service opportunities, service-learning, or the Bonner Scholars program. Our mission is to provide meaningful civic engagement, which recognizes the powerful intersection between service, learning, empowered communities and social change. We provide technical support for service-learning and community service placements. We also provide professional development opportunities for students, faculty, staff and community partners, as well as network opportunities with local, state, regional and national organizations.

Arizona State University

Academic Community Engagement Services

Nancy Crocker
Associate Director, ACES
480.965.5694

ACES programs provide opportunities for civic engagement and experiential learning through academically-linked or funded service to the community. The overall goals are to enhance ASU students' academic skills through classroom-linked or funded community engagement, promote students' understanding of social justice issues and life-long commitment to the civic community, develop academic skills and self-esteem of academically at-risk children and youth that will encourage them to persist and succeed in school while raising college-going expectations, and assist parents in attaining the skills to act as their children's first teachers while developing their own self-sufficiency.

ACES programs include the Service Learning Program (credit-bearing, semester-long service learning internships), America Reads/America Counts (work-study literacy and math tutoring), the Arizona Reads Roundtable, outreach initiatives, and adult education initiatives.

America Reads

Deborah Ball
Program Coordinator, America Reads/America Counts, After-School Mentoring/Tutoring & Multicultural Literacy
480.965.8092

America Reads is a program in which Arizona State University students work one-on-one with academically at-risk children in the community. The term "at-risk" describes children who live in low-income areas and are predicted to fail to graduate from high school. The goal of our tutoring program is to increase each child's literacy skills in the hopes that they will achieve high school graduation. In our after-school programs, tutors assist the children by creating fun interactive activities to exercise academic skills. Tutors also assist with homework and teach college bound practices.

Augsburg College

Center for Service, Work, and Learning

2211 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Lois Olson, MS
Director & Coordinator of Internships
612.330.1474

Mary Laurel True, MSW
Associate Director & Coordinator of Community Service-Learning
612.330.1775

Service-Learning at Augsburg is an educational approach where students learn from and about the community and society in which they live by participating in service experiences that are integrated into Augsburg courses or done as part of campus life and activities. The program's goals include building personal commitment to life-long service and citizenship.

Through the Augsburg Tutoring Program, more than 100 Augsburg students each semester tutor children and adults at public schools, literacy centers and neighborhood organizations in Minneapolis.

Bowling Green State University

Literacy Serve and Learn & America Reads

576 Education Building
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403

Trinka Messenheimer
Director

Denison University

America Reads

Denison University
Granville, OH 43023

Jenny Orten
Coordinator, Center for Service-Learing
740.587.7153

The America Reads program provides a campus employment opportunity for Denison University students to interact with children and teachers in the surrounding communities. America Reads tutors make a difference by assisting elementary students in reading and other subjects, providing extra one-on-one attention, and serving as role models. Approximately 40-60 tutors work each semester in eleven different elementary schools in Licking County. Tutors attend training every fall and continue learning in monthly reflection sessions. They have diverse interests and backgrounds but share a common desire to help children learn to read and to work in the community. The program is run by a half-time administrator and a student-led Advisory Board. Denison University's America Reads program is housed in the Alford Center for Service-Learning and is currently in its eighth year.

Duke University

Community Service Center

Student Affairs
P.O. Box 90827
Durham, NC 27708
919.684.4377

Elaine Madison
Director

Domoniqúe Redmond
Coordinator of Volunteer Services

The Duke Time to Read literacy program trains student volunteers to serve as learning partners with youth attending nearby charter schools as they strive to reach required reading levels. Learning partners volunteer two hours each week with a child using select magazines and comic books and share the joys of reading through fun, interactive activities.

The Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership

Office of Community Affairs
Box 90433, Duke University
Durham, NC 27708

Sarah List
School Service Learning Coordinator
919.660.2445

Georgetown University

DC Reads & DC Schools Project

Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service
Poulton Hall Suite 130
1421 37th St. NW
Washington, DC 20057

Eric Wesley
Director, DC Reads
202.687.6282

Meredith Naughton
Director, DC Schools Project
202.687.8868

DC Reads and DC Schools Project (DCSP) are literacy tutoring and mentoring programs for low-income children, youths, and adults living in underserved communities throughout Washington, DC. Both programs provide weekly one-on-one tutoring sessions at schools, community-based organizations and homes. DC Reads focuses on the early literacy needs in the District and operates sites in low-income neighborhoods. DC Schools Project provides services for the District’s rising low-income immigrant community. Together, these two programs make up a substantial effort to address the multi-faceted literacy needs of the DC community.

Harvard University

Phillips Brooks House Association

Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

Kerry McGowan
Director of Programs, Adult Education Programs
617.496.3684

Varsha Ghosh
Director of Programs, After School Programs

Moira Mannix
Stride Rite Community Service Fellowship Program Coordinator

Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. is an independent non-profit managed by undergraduates at Harvard University.  We have multiple adult education programs located in correctional facilities, community centers, service centers, senior homes, and housing developments that offer courses in GED preparation, ESOL, and citizenship test preparation to immigrants from all over the world.  Volunteers go at least once a week to tutor immigrant adults. Programs operate up to twice a week, offering instruction in small classes at no cost.  Suggested lesson plans are provided, though tutors have the freedom to design their own lessons if they choose.

Howard University

Community Association

2731 Georgia Ave NW
Washington, DC 20005

Maybelle Taylor Bennett
Director

Jacob Ortiz
Assistant Director

Project C.H.A.N.G.E. Community Service initiative (Education, Health and Senior Citizen Services)
202.806.4771

Kyieda Rogers
Program Manager, Howard University Jumpstart / Americorps Program
202.806.4771

Lakesha Bradshaw
Off Campus Coordinator & America Reads/Time To Read Coordinator
Department of Financial Aid, Scholarships, and Student Employment
2400 Sixth Street NW, Suite B-9
Washington, DC 20059
202.806.2806

The above programs are supported by various university collaborations as well as internal and external funding.  These are local and national services programs that focus on the improvement and development of community through activities that range from literacy/educational advocacy to human services.

Indiana University/Purdue University

Center for Service and Learning

815 W. Michigan Street
University College Building
Room 3116
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Lorrie Brown
Coordinator of Community Work-Study
317.274.5566

The Center for Service and Learning involves students, faculty, and staff in service activities that mutually benefit the campus and community. The Center collaborates with other campus units, develops community partnerships, promotes service learning, and coordinates programs in order to further the academic and public purposes of the university.

New York University

Literacy in Action & Literacy Project

The Gallatin School
715 Broadway, 806C
New York, NY, 10003

June Foley
Coordinator of Community Work-Study
212.998.7359

The Literacy Project is a multi-faceted program that benefits adolescent and adult learners at four partner institutions by increasing literacy skills, as well as introducing the tutors and teachers at those agencies to new methodologies in teaching literacy. The Project focuses on work with Chinese-Americans, Latinas, African refugees, and a diverse population that is or has been incarcerated. Programs include writing classes with learners, a Literacy in Action course for tutors, and the publication of The Literacy Review, an annual journal of writing by adult ESOL, GED, and basic education students.

Swarthmore College

Learning for Life & Summer of Learning

Diane Anderson
Faculty Advisor & Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies
610.328.8065

Learning for Life is a campus-based community service program that pairs Swarthmore College students with members of the college staff, primarily Environmental Service, Dining Services and Facilities workers. The "learning partnerships" work together on various continuing education activities chosen by the partners, including basic computer skills, photography, movie-making, ceramics, writing, reading, preparing for the GED or a driving test, second language learning, radio broadcasting, and swimming and health fitness. Many partnerships are of the type in which both student and staff partners are working together to learn something, rather than the staff member being "tutored" by the student. The Summer of Learning program is an off-shoot of Learning for Life in which staff members participate in staff-organized group activities during the summer months, including an enrichment field trip. The college supports the program with time-release for partnership activities and with the use of college resources.

Tulane University

Office of Service Learning

1332 Audubon Street
New Orleans, LA 70118

Vincent Ilustre
Director
504.862.3358

James Singleton
Assistant Director

The mission of Tulane University's Office of Service Learning is to engage faculty members, students, and community partners in an endeavor that combines community service with academic learning. Service learning aims to benefit students' education, further faculty research and teaching, and build community.

D. Hamilton Simons-Jones
Director of Community Services Coordination
University Center, Suite 215
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
504.314.2115

University of Maryland

America Reads*America Counts

0144 Holzapfel Hall
College Park, MD 20742
301.314.READ

Larry Meade
Program Coordinator
301.314.7321

The mission of America Reads*America Counts, a partnership between the University of Maryland and Prince George’s County Public Schools, is to provide a high quality mentoring program that enriches learning opportunities for both college and elementary school students.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE)
208 North Columbia Street, Suite 108
UNC-Chapel Hill, CB 3505
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3505
919.962.1542

America Reads

Priscilla Wood
Director

The primary focus of SCALE’s America Reads Program is to increase the community involvement and the literacy awareness of the tutors while at the same time increasing the literacy skills of the children that are being tutored.

North Carolina LiteracyCorps

Rebecca Flanders
Director

The North Carolina LiteracyCorps is a statewide consortium of AmeriCorps members working to build the capacity, impact, and partnership of community and campus based literacy programs.

Project SHINE

Tamara Johnson

Project SHINE helps faculty members create links between classroom teaching and relevant field experience. It provides an opportunity to deepen students' theoretical understanding in a broad range of disciplines, including urban studies, anthropology, English, TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), sociology, public policy and history.  Students gain knowledge of diverse cultures and life experiences, develop skills beyond the textbook, and find a powerful way to reinforce their academic studies.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Reading Together

Don Farsaci
336.334.5670

The RTUSA program offers training and scripted materials to teachers, students, parents and other caring adults. It empowers children to teach children, parents to teach their own children and other caring adults including middle, secondary and post secondary students to teach fluency and comprehension to second and third grade children.

The University Speaking Center

Kimberly M. Cuny
Director
336.256.1346

Tutors work in the community to enhance communication skills of residents.

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Center for Service-Learning

Schneider Hall 113A
P.O. Box 4004
Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54702-4004

Donald D. Mowry
Director

The Center for Service-Learning assists students, faculty/staff members and community project supervisors with designing and undertaking meaningful projects that afford both rich experiences for UW-Eau Claire students and substantial benefits for the community. Our Literacy Action Network includes several community/campus collaborations including Jumpstart Eau Claire, Reading Partners Program, and America Reads.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Service Learning Center

202 Major Williams (0168)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540.231.6964

Michele James-Deramo
Director

The purpose of the Service-Learning Center is to provide logistical assistance, resource support, and standards of best practice to units wanting to incorporate community service into their educational mission.