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Laubach Literacy Action (LA) is the U.S. program of Laubach Literacy International, a nonprofit education organization founded in 1955 to help adults acquire the listening, speaking, reading, writing, and mathematics skills required to solve problems of everyday life and to participate fully in society. LA provides training, resources, and materials to 1,000 local member programs. Each year 100,000 volunteers work with over 150,000 new readers nationwide.
The Lazarus Foundation recycles yesterday's technology by collecting, refurbishing, and distributing computers free or at low cost to education institutions and other community service organizations that serve people with special needs in the Baltimore/Washington/Northern Virginia area. The Lazarus Foundation resurrects donated defective and unwanted computers and places them in schools and other nonprofit organizations. The foundation is currently working with other organizations that are interested in establishing their own Lazarus project.
The Library of America implements an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's greatest writers in handsome hard-cover volumes featuring authoritative texts.
Founded in 1940, The Links, Incorporated, is a national black women's service organization, with some 9,000 members in 250 chapters, in 34 states and the District of Columbia and also in the Bahamas and in Frankfurt, Germany. The Links program addresses the spiritual, intellectual, and physical welfare of children and young people, especially those at risk in the inner city. The promotion of literacy and reading is a key aspect of the program.
The Lions Clubs International encourages some 4,900 "Leos" (young men and women, ages 12-28) to serve others in their community. Through the International Literacy and Culture Project, Leos recognize the importance of an accessible education for all and participate in projects that help to create a more literate, culturally oriented world.
Literacy Volunteers of America is a national, nonprofit organization that combats illiteracy through a network of community volunteer literacy programs. These affiliates provide individualized student-centered instruction in both basic literacy and English as a second language for adults and teens. More than 110,000 tutors and students are involved in 420 programs located in 44 states.
The Lutheran Church Library Association, founded in 1958, is a nonprofit service organization that encourages congregations to set up church library media centers; provides a quarterly magazine, a manual, and recommended booklists as guidelines; and provides teachers' workshops. The association keeps its members informed of the Library of Congress and American Library Association reading promotion themes and other literacy materials, and encourages other reading promotion partners to use its information and materials.
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