Investing in the Shelby Literacy Center (SLC) is investing in our community. We walk alongside adults who look to improve their own lives and the lives of their families. Our mission is to empower all adults to reach their personal goals by providing opportunities to learn literacy and life skills. We serve single parents, war refugees, widows, grandmothers, accountants, doctors...anyone who has a desire to learn, improve their finances, and participate fully in our community.

The SLC offers language classes and tutoring for adults wanting to learn or improve their English, study support for adults working to earn their high school diploma, a job skills platform for jobseekers looking to gain better employment, and book gifting program for pre-K-12th graders that promotes reading engagement. Many of our students take advantage of more than one of our programs. Our SLC scholarship fund ensures we never have to turn anyone away - education is for everyone.

We are still growing! Our first ever SLC virtual job fair attracted 40 jobseekers. We are currently serving over 30% more ESL students and more than doubled our active HiSET/GED students. More than 3,000 prek-12th graders, their teachers, community sponsors, and families have been served by our Betty's Book Heroes program. These great milestones also mean that we need to attract generous sponsors and donors to enable us to continue our work into 2024. Please consider a monthly gift to the Shelby Literacy Center. There is no donation too small to be meaningful to our work.

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