The Fall Festival of Literacy will be held on November 14, 2019 at the Hilton Garden Inn,Troy. LVORC’s student authors will be joined by Dr. Steven Sandler, author of Tea with Freud. Tickets are $35.00.

Networking with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will begin at 5:30 The program will run from 6:15-7:30 p.m..

The Fall Festival of Literacy is an evening of life-affirming true stories by our adult literacy students and tutors. Our students will share how literacy (reading, writing, conversational English and/or math) has changed their lives. Please join us as we affirm our students and tutors for their accomplishments and recognize the work they have done together.

Proceeds from this event will be used to provide free literacy programs and services to adults and children in Rensselaer County and nearby communities.

Literacy Volunteers of Rensselaer County is in need of a volunteer to coordinate its Everybody WINS! Power Lunch mentoring and reading program at Arbor Hill Elementary School in Albany on Thursdays 11:45-1:15 p.m. for this school year.
Power Lunch brings volunteers from local businesses and the community together with elementary school children for weekly one-to-one visits, to share read-aloud books and conversation during lunch. The Coordinator selects books and monitors the adult/child reading partners’ sessions. If interested or wish to learn more contact Judy Smith at Literacy Volunteers. Phone 518-244-4650 or litvoldirector@aol.com. It is an easy and fun way to impact a young child’s interest in reading and help them to be more successful in school.

Thanks to the Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation, LVORC's Judy Smith and Linda Feldmann recently had the opportunity to be interviewed on WAMC's "Falling Into Place" series. You can hear the interview at WAMC.org, or by following the link from the Blog on this website.

The Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation is providing funding for this year's Everybody WINS! Power Lunch program. Thanks to this generous grant, LVORC is able to provide adult reading mentors to children in area elementary schools. Please join us in saying thank you!

Shop for any occasion at https://smile.amazon.com and AmazonSmile will donate a percentage of the sale to Literacy Volunteers of Rensselaer County.

You can get to know a bit about the many adults who are part of LVORC’s programs by viewing their video testimonials:

VIEW TESTIMONIALS

Think spring! The new issue of The Reader is now available online:

https://www.lvorc.org/the-reader-spring-2019/