News & Stories
AY Magazine has a great write-up about Literacy Action of Central Arkansas and our Hometown Heroes. Check it out here.
Project LIFT Brings Families, Books Together
$1,500 parish grant boosts new family reading program at Little Rock learning center By: Aprille Hanson, Associate Editor, Arkansas Catholic, February 10, 2018 In the rush of everyday life, reading with a child can easily be pushed aside. Couple that with knowing...
Party With a Heart Raises $22,000 for Literacy Action
Literacy Action Receives $22,000 from Party With a Heart's Fundraisers in 2017 Thank you Party with a Heart for supporting us in 2017! Party with a Heart is a nonprofit organization that increases awareness, education, and support for causes within our community by...
Heflin Youth Foundation Awards $5,000 for New Family Literacy Program
Heflin Youth Foundation Awards $5,000 for New Family Literacy Program In 2018, Literacy Action of Central Arkansas will start its pilot family literacy program, Project LIFT (Literacy Inspiring Family Transformation). We are excited to be among the first recipients...
Student Story: From Sharecropper’s Son to Reading Enthusiast
From Sharecropper's Son to Reading Enthusiast John* was born on the day World War II began, Pearl Harbor Day in 1941, in the east Arkansas flat delta farmlands. He was a sharecropper’s son and went to very poorly funded “colored” schools in Keo, 20 miles south-east of...
BHP donates $6,700 to local literacy group
BHP has awarded Literacy Action of Central Arkansas a $6,700 donation to support literacy programming in Faulkner County. By Log Cabin Democrat Aaran Mattson, Literacy Action’s Faulkner County program coordinator, and her student use the program’s current equipment...
Congratulations to the Shine a Light Award Winners!
Student and Tutor of the Year Award Winners We had a great time on September 29th honoring our students and tutors at Shine a Light on Literacy. We were pleased to present our Student of the Year Award to Christina Cook. Christina worked incredibly hard this year to...
“Free to Read” – Literacy Action in the News!
A wonderful story of continued success about our partner program with the women of Westover Hills Presbyterian at the Pulaski County Regional Detention Center! Here's just a snippet of the article written by Rachel Herzog from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Four...
An ESL Student and Her Tutor: Angela and Jenifer
As a tutor for Literacy Action of Central Arkansas, I teach English as a Second Language (ESL) classes and I tutor one-on-one with adults who want to improve their literacy skills. In April 2017, I started tutoring Angela. Angela is from Venezuela. She and I meet...
James Hawkins is the ALC 2017 Student of the Year!
The Arkansas Literacy Councils 2017 Student of the Year was our very own James Hawkins from Conway! Many thanks to the ALC Board, and to James' tutor, Michael Siniawa, who wrote the nomination for James below. And, of course, to James Hawkins, for being such an...
Literacy Action Receives $15,000 Grant from Dollar General
Literacy Action Receives $15,000 Grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to Support Adult Literacy This week, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded Literacy Action of Central Arkansas a $15,000 grant to support adult literacy. This local grant...