Awards for Excellence
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Outstanding Student |
Outstanding Tutor Natacha
Dannenberg – “Reading is the key to all knowledge, and to
be able to bring that to others, to give them that power, is just
wonderful.” Click
here for an audio exerpt from this
speaker. |
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Outstanding Trainer |
Outstanding Program Literacy
Council of Brown CountyTori Rader, executive director – “As with most of you, we have had many challenges over the past couple of years: a burgeoning ESL population, the path to accreditation, developing effective outcome measurements, and overall program effectiveness. We view this award as a confirmation of the efforts we have put forth to meet these challenges.” |
| Literacy Leadership
Award Laverne Davis, Verizon external affairs vice president – “It is with great pride that I accept this award on behalf of Verizon and its 247,000 employees. Literacy is a part of a culture at Verizon. Employees are volunteering to tutor, making book donations, and integrating literacy into our community and marketing events. Our commitment to the literacy world from the start has been to be America's corporate literacy champion." |
Flossie
Lewis – “Learning to read has taken me down a new avenue…I
still feel warm because I am among people that I know care…That’s
what helped me - the caring of the program, the caring of my tutor,
and to know that there are so many people out there that actually
want to make America a literate place…When I was asked to speak
I had to think about it because this was a secret I carried all
my life…I know what it is to be in the dark…but when a
tutor opens up the window and you see it’s light outside, I
started running. I could see. And the world just came to me and
I can’t stop…These programs work. They work. They work…If
you set the speed that tutor can keep you on the road.”
Robert
Podlasek – “The students we work with are such a wonderful
inspiration. And the tutors we work with are constant reminders
that the world is truly filled with good people.”
