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The Junior League of San Antonio, Inc. is the organizing force behind LITERACY San Antonio, however effective change requires participation from ALL members of the community. LITERACY San Antonio will provide a method for reliable and effective action. Through an Internet clearinghouse, hotlines, and various media (including radio, television, billboards and social media) along with community volunteers, we intend to enable existing literacy programs to serve more people in San Antonio, thereby significantly and permanently decreasing illiteracy.

The project will centralize information about literacy agencies and their programs, literacy events in the community and provide ways everyone can get involved or get access to participate. Together with our supporters, we envision all residents of San Antonio collaborating and using the LITERACY San Antonio resources for advancing literacy.

At the heart of LITERACY San Antonio is the belief that San Antonio, united in our objective and working as a whole, can change individual expectations and behaviors. The initiative is not reinventing the wheel by creating new programs and services. The project is designed to use the power of the people to move society forward. As members of our community, we are all responsible to advocate for and participate in the advancement of literacy for all residents of San Antonio.

At its core, LITERACY San Antonio is about realizing human potential; the potential of individuals and of humanity. Our premise is based on a belief that the foundation of a thriving democratic society depends on an educated populace. It is the changed attitudes and behaviors of a unified community along with efficient infrastructure and tools that will raise literacy levels permanently.

LITERACY San Antonio is a consensus-building initiative intended to unite the community around the importance of literacy, provide economies of scale to existing organizations to efficiently service those in need and provide hope to residents for sustainable change and an improved future.


The LITERACY San Antonio Organizing Principles

The Junior League of San Antonio, Inc. will act as the unifying agent by ADVOCATING for literacy programs, raising AWARENESS about the breadth of the problem, taking ACTION and urging others to do so.

The Three A's: Advocacy, Awareness and Action - will be used to focus and implement the Literacy San Antonio strategic plan within the Junior League and the external community.

ADVOCACY:
The JLSA will advocate to bring greater resources to existing literacy programs and services in support of their mission, and to increase their reach and effectiveness.

AWARENESS:
The JLSA will initiate its awareness-raising campaign to illuminate the many startling facts about literacy in our community. The campaign is intended to positively influence attitudes, behaviors and beliefs toward significantly and permanently increasing literacy in San Antonio.

ACTION:
The JLSA will encourage and facilitate all members of the community to take part in actions that contribute to significantly and permanently raising literacy levels in Greater San Antonio.

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