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Nonprofit Necessity - Local orgs turn to collaboration to survive bad economic times.
December 6th, 2010
As published in The Memphis Daily News | Jonathan Devin. In mid-2008, Sallie Johnson became executive director of Memphis Literacy Council, a 30-year-old nonprofit literacy organization with a strong reputation for programming that was facing funding issues caused by a rapidly disintegrating ... read more »
Literacy Mid-South Festival book sale spreads the word
September 3rd, 2010
By Sallie Johnson | Twenty-six percent of adults in Memphis lack basic prose literacy skills, meaning they read below the third grade level. They are unable to understand a note from a teacher, read the instructions on a medicine bottle, or gain employment, and they generally live in poverty. Illiteracy is generational, and it is a contributing factor underlying many societal problems facing ... read more »
