The Virginia Literacy Foundation (VLF) provides funding and technical support to private, volunteer literacy organizations throughout Virginia via challenge grants and direct consultation. These organizations support K-4th grade-level adult readers with one-on-one instruction and tutoring. The VLF also works in partnership with all public and private literacy organizations in Virginia to attack illiteracy in the workplace and to provide family literacy training.
Soon after its inception, the VLF formed a partnership with the Virginia Department of Education's Office of Adult Education and Literacy in an effort to make an impact on the immense economic, educational, and social consequences of illiteracy that affect the future of Virginians expected to compete in a rapidly changing technological environment. This public-private partnership to combat illiteracy was the first of its kind in the nation.
The Foundation has spent twenty years building and sustaining a statewide network of community-based literacy organizations. The next twenty years will be devoted to increasing the number and capacity of these organizations while providing them with research-based best practices and underpinning their successes with public policy support.
If you would like to help support the battle against illiteracy, we invite you to make a contribution to the Foundation. Your pledge will help to fund one of the community-based literacy foundations in Virginia that provide literacy instruction to under-educated adults.