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READ*WRITE*NOW! Just Add Kids - August 1996
Learning Partners
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone 312-944-6780
Fax 312-280-3257
Home page on World Wide Web: http://www.ala.org
Contact: Susan Roman, Executive Director, Association for Library Service to Children
The American Library Association (ALA), founded in 1876, has more than 57,000 members, representing public, school, academic, and special libraries. It provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and for the library profession in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all. ALA has been instrumental in encouraging federal funding for literacy efforts and works with national leaders to support local literacy programs.
1640 Rhode Island Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036-3278
Phone 202-857-6633
Fax 202-857-6568
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Contact:
- Sam Fisher, Executive Director
Jeff Hoffman, International Director of Programs
E-mail J.hoffman@bnai.brith.org
Leonard Keilin, Director of Camping Services
Winter address:
1901 Raymond Drive
Northbrook, IL 60062
Phone 800-803-2267
Fax 847-564-8285
The B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO) is the world's largest Jewish youth organization, serving 30,000 Jewish teenagers worldwide. Consisting of two divisions, Aleph Zadlk Aleph for boys and B'nai B'rith Girls for girls, members participate in BBYO through a wide array of cultural, community service, educational, religious, social, and leadership programs. BBYO events and programs provide opportunities for members to develop their leadership potential, a positive Jewish identity and commitment to their personal development. BBYO members belong to local chapters and participate in chapter, council, regional, district, and international activities. BBYO is a youth-led organization and the chapters to which they belong are democratically functioning groups that receive guidance from adult advisers and professional staff.
1230 West Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone 404-815-5700
Fax 404-815-5789
- Contact:
- Michelle Haley, Assistant Director for Program Service
Boys and Girls Clubs of America originated in 1860 with the establishment of the Dashaway Club for boys in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1906 the Dashaway Club joined with 30 similar clubs to form the Federated Boys' Clubs, which became the Boys Clubs of America in 1931. Recognition of growing numbers of female club members precipitated the name change to Boys and Girls Clubs of America in 1990. The organization helps youth of all backgrounds develop the qualities needed to become responsible and productive citizens and leaders with special concern for children from disadvantaged circumstances. Each club is staffed by full-time youth service professionals, as well as by part-time workers and volunteers, who guide children through the maze of choices in today's society. Currently, 737 Boys and Girls Club organizations operate 1,810 clubs, serving 2,420,000 members. The membership is composed of boys (64 percent) and girls (36 percent) ages 6-18 representing all races, religions, and ethnic backgrounds. Clubs offer an array of programs that serve collective and individual needs through enrichment, education, activity, exploration, tolerance, understanding, and fitness. Clubs stress the contribution that literacy and reading make to the realization of individual potential.
165 East 56th Street
New York, NY 10022
Phone 212-832-3180
Fax 212-832-3965
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Contact:
- Everybody Wins! District of Columbia, Inc.
Joanie Chase, Executive Director
Mary Salander, Assistant Director
13605 Sir Thomas Way, #44
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Phone 301-890-0646
Fax 301-365-2671
Everybody Wins! District of Columbia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children learn to read and succeed in school. Once a week, adult volunteers from the community go to an elementary school, meet their young reading partners, have lunch together and share a good book. The reading partners promote reading for pleasure, serve as caring adult role models, build self-confidence and enhance self-esteem. Students' lives are enriched through the one-on-one relationship with their reading partners. The volunteers, their organizations, the schools, and society benefit. Everybody Wins!
420 Fifth Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone 212-852-8000
Fax 212-852-6517
Home page on World Wide Web: http://www.girlscouts.org/
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Contact:
- Sheila Lewis, Membership and Program Consultant Phone 212-852-8076 Fax 212-852-6515
Girl Scouts of the USA, with a membership of 2,647,000 girls (ages 5 through 17) and 863,000 adults, offers girls from all backgrounds an informal educational program that helps them make friends, learn new skills, and serve their communities. Scouts at each age level, beginning with five-year-old Daisy Girl Scouts, have their own handbook and other print resources. The importance of books and the joy of reading are stressed at all age levels. Girl Scouts of the USA has a national literacy program, "Read to Lead," that encourages older Girl Scouts to serve as learning partners of younger Girl Scouts and other children in the community. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
145 Kennedy Street NW
Washington, DC 20011-5294
Phone 202-726-5424 or 202-726-5434
Fax 202-882-1681
Contact: Dr. Lawrence E. Miller, National Executive Director
Founded in 1914 at Howard University as an African American fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma has over 200 chapters and 95,000 members around the world, in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, and in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Along with social action and bigger and better business, education, particularly the promotion of literacy and reading, is a major emphasis of this organization's programs.
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