How Can I Help?

2000 was the second year that the Yellow Pages Publisher�s Association (YPPA) took to the road on behalf of Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. (LVA). The GET AN IDEA™ tour went to cities across the country looking for good ideas, raising literacy awareness, and recruiting volunteers.

Ideas, you say? Why ideas? Because the Yellow Pages industry wants you to GET AN IDEA™ from their products -- find a new restaurant, discover alternative gifts, obtain literacy assistance, or become a literacy volunteer. It's all in there.

In addition to great ideas, YPPA has given over $12 million of free advertising to LVA in Yellow Pages around the country. Thanks to YPPA, to get an idea about literacy, all you have to do is open your local Yellow Pages.

From Los Angeles to Washington D.C., with 20 stops in between, YPPA committed summer 2000 to help people learn about LVA and the state of literacy in the U.S. by sending the Get an Idea van and Mr. Bright Idea to communities like yours.

YPPA traveled the country to remind people that there are more than 44 million adults in the United States who can't read and that LVA is doing something about it. If you think that people with low-level literacy skills don�t live in your community, then you are wrong.

	To learn about the state of literacy in your area, follow Mr. Bright Idea.
	For a map and list of tour cities, follow the GET AN IDEA™ van.
	To learn about the state of literacy in the 22 tour cities, click on the tour map.
	To learn more about the GET AN IDEA™ America Tour and YPPA�s commitment to literacy, visit their website at http://www.getanidea.com.
	To become a literacy volunteer or to support Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. programs, visit http://www.literacyvolunteers.org/help.

For further information about the Yellow Pages Publisher's Association, please visit their website at http://www.yppa.org. For more information on the 2000 GET AN IDEA™ America Tour, visit http://www.getanidea.com.

For more information on the GET AN IDEA™ tour or to sponsor an LVA program, please contact: