- providing the forum to create system-wide solutions
- encouraging collaboration among all literacy programs
- helping expand the resources available to our community to fund big ideas around literacy
“What you are doing in Tucson is visionary. You are creating a national model
I hope others will follow.”
–David C. Harvey, President
& Chief Executive Officer, ProLiteracy
Simply doing more won’t move the needle fast enough or far enough to transform our community. You have seen the amazing results achieved by your investment in the five merged programs.
But to truly impact the literacy rate in Tucson we must create a grassroots, community-wide literacy movement that transforms.
The strategy for engagement embraces three streams of action – awareness, capacity building and advocacy. Each is implemented simultaneously and reinforces the other. As awareness of the issue increases, more students, more volunteers and more money emerge, thus building the capacity to provide more services. Together, the enhanced awareness and capacity open doors for advocacy with elected officials, in the workplace and to other audiences. In turn, this raises awareness and so on. The flywheel accelerates as projects are launched, implemented and achieve results that impact you and our community.
The beauty of this process is the built-in venues for dialogue and healthy debate around a common vision – 100% literacy. The model builds on our strengths, each of us providing the leadership and resources we naturally bring, to create the community we want.
Through the structure and leadership provided by Literacy Connects, the literacy movement will enable us to provide more and better literacy services, but we will also achieve our bigger goal: a higher literacy rate which is the key to achieving so many of our community’s goals.
