Chicago, IL: Help Solve the Literacy Crisis as a Community Outreach Team Lead

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OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION -
Have you ever wanted to do something AMAZING to change the world but did not know
where to start?
Here is an opportunity to join the American Youth Literacy Foundation, an all- volunteer
501 c 3 charitable non-profit organization, founded in 2008 and dedicated to providing a
gateway to a future in which all children, in every classroom in America, learn how to
read by the end of 3rd grade. Our mission is to save millions of children from a lifetime
of illiteracy and bring about true education parity in just a few years’ time by deploying
the FUNetix(r) 12 Hour Reading App(tm) nationwide.
With the FUNetix app, which is 100% free to download and use, any child can learn how
to read in about 12 hours of total play time; and in America’s public schools today, there
are millions of children who can’t read or are struggling to read, which has led to more
than 20 million illiterate high school dropouts over the past 20 years. But it doesn’t have
to be this way!
We started in 2008 by taking a groundbreaking, science-based curriculum and proving
that it can scale to reach and help thousands of children. Then, in 2020, during the
pandemic, we created an app, based on our now patented reading curriculum, that
takes kids from the ABC's to a 2nd grade reading level through an amazing journey
that's fully narrated and tastefully animated, and gamified, just enough, to create an
immersive, interactive environment that captures kids attention and imagination and
launches them to literacy in a fun and easy way.
Our challenge now is to bring the app to millions of children who are not learning how to
read in school, either because they are in schools that are failing or because they are in
difficult situations at home for a variety of reasons.
Many parents are desperate for an education solution for their children but the
challenge of teaching reading to children has proven too great for classrooms across
America using a reading curriculum that is too confusing and doesn’t scale. America
needs FUNetix because FUNetix is so easy that virtually any child can learn how to
read in just 12 hours.

Our Community Outreach Team members are individuals with diverse backgrounds and
with diverse interests and talents; but most of all, they are individuals who have a
willingness to reach out to students in need, parents in need, communities in need, and
to the members and leaders within those communities who can help make a difference.
The ideal Community Outreach volunteers have significant real-world experience, have
seen the challenges of illiteracy, low literacy and low education plaguing our
communities, and are willing to both talk to and listen to people in order to identify ways
to best implement and build public awareness of the FUNetix app among families with
children in need.

This is a complex undertaking, so candidates need to be self-motivated, enthusiastic,
and community-driven to take on this exciting and important role. This position requires
someone equipped with a positive attitude and readiness to be a team player.
We believe that we can change millions of lives for the better by bringing FUNetix into
communities, and ultimately schools, across the country. If this sounds like something
that you have the time for and interest in, and that you would like to be a part of, and if
you have the confidence and ability to work in a virtual environment using select
networking and communications tools and platforms such as zoom, slack and google
shared folders, then please reply to this listing and tell us about yourself.

We look forward to hearing from you and speaking with you about a renewed sense of
hope for the future of literacy and education in America.
You can read more about our story, and about our team, on our website at
www.FUNetix.org.
Mr. R. Kali Woodward
Founding, Executive Director