Learn United is United Way of Allen County's 10 year plan to close the 3rd grade reading gap in our community.
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- Learn United Breakfast of Cham...
Downtown Allen County Public Librar...
Wednesday, November 4 at 8:00am - Real Men Read Day at the Tin Caps
Parkview Field
Sunday, June 28 at 3:00pm - Study Connection: Big Differen...
Franke Park
Saturday, May 9 at 8:00am - Learn United Leadership Summit
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Tuesday, April 7 at 8:00am - Real Men Read
Fort Wayne Urban League
Thursday, January 8 at 6:00pm - Holiday Book Drive
Barnes and Noble; Glenbrook Location
Friday, November 14 at 5:00pm - IPFW Omnibus Lecture featuring...
IPFW Rhinehart Music Center
Friday, November 14 at 6:30pm
Learn United Thanks to all our teachers who spend their own money on their students and classrooms, but ALSO have given to the community through United Way. And a special Thanks to South Wayne for winning a very competitive competition between FWCS elementary schools.
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Learn United Another sad reminder of how poverty is on the rise and that children suffer the most
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PHILADELPHIA -- Three weeks before he was elected president, Barack Obama set an audacious goal: end hunger among children in the United States by 2015.
Learn United sends occassional updates to fans about opportunities, progress and other Learn United news. Make sure you click on your inbox and check your fan updates on the left. After the last update of Facebook, you may not realize that's where the updates went. So stay informed and stay involved.
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is wondering why you didn't sign up to be a writing coach? It's just 7 weeks, 7 tiny hours of your time. Anyone can do this! Post it to your page, send it to your friends. We can't close the reading gap without you. Give a little time and make a big difference: https://ec.volunteernow.com/recruiter/in
Learn United A letter written by one of the Real Men!
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My mother was a school teacher who, for 17 years, delighted in teaching fourth-graders in Osceola. My father was an electrical engineer for 40 years and the prototype eternal student.
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has recruited over 800 volunteers, but our goal is 1000.. so please help us recruit. We're looking for volunteers to give 7 weeks to help students with writing skills. This is a short commitment with a big payoff for you and the students! Register at: https://ec.volunteernow.com/recruiter/in
Learn United One of the goals of Learn United is to improve the quality of child care in unregulated home programs. Many of these programs are serving our lowest income children and not providing high quality, literacy rich care.
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Think your children are getting hours of playtime, story readings and stimulating lessons at day care? Maybe they are, but they could also be spending a chunk of their day watching TV or DVDs.
Learn United is very thankful this Thanksgiving! We're thankful for hundreds of volunteers who have helped struggling readers this year, we're thankful for 230 "Real Men," thankful for thousands of new & used books being distributed to kids, agencies and schools, thankful for our nonprofit partners & school systems who help coordi...nate this effort. Most importantly, we're thankful for our kids and hopeful for their future.
Learn United You can't learn in school if you're hungry.
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12.6 million kids are at risk of hunger in America. But hunger isn't about statistics — it's about the children affected. Watch the video and see how hunger is impacting our students' success.
Learn United Allen County should be very proud of our Real Men Read project. Houston piloted their effort this year and read to 4,500 students. Our Real Men read to over 5,500! There are 3 major Real Men efforts: Chicago, Houston and Allen County :)
Wanted: Real men to inspire reading in HISD project | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chr
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Otis Johnson registers as a mentor during the Real Men Read kickoff at Houston’s Central Library. Volunteers are asked to commit to discussing a book with second-, fifth-, or seventh-grade students for one hour per month in February, March and April.
Learn United Tom Barfell, Do it Best Corp employee reading Bunnicula to attentive 3rd graders.
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is looking for volunteers to give 7 weeks (just 1 itty bitty hour a week) to help students with writing. Struggling readers are struggling writers. Help all students improve their writing skills, and especially our 3rd graders who will take the writing portion of ISTEP in March. Register: https://ec.volunteernow.co...m/recruiter/index.php?class=OppSearchRes
Learn United thanks all those who attended our Breakfast of Champions! We thanked those who have volunteered and we're challenging you to be one of the 1000 volunteers needed this year. 250 more to go! Will you be one?
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Learn United is a 10 year plan to close the 3rd grade reading gap in Allen County. Join us to celebrate the first year and plans to move forward.
Celebrate our Literacy Champions.
See a report card of our progress.
Give us your input.
Help spread the word.
RSVP Today!
Please RSVP to Helen Didion at United Way by e-mailing ...helend@uwacin.org or calling 260.422.4776.
Parking:
The Wayne St. and Washington St. lots will be available, and are free to library card holders.
Tickets must be validated in the library. Please do not leave them in your car.
Enter the library through the Dunkin' Donuts entrance on the east side of the building.
Celebrate our Literacy Champions. See Progress. Provide Your Input
Time:8:00AM Wednesday, November 4th
Location:Downtown Allen County Public Library (Rooms A, B and C)
