The Literacy Coalition improves the quality and increases the availability of literacy services for Central Texans.

LCCT supports over 80 local literacy providers by coordinating joint efforts and obtaining funding, materials, and volunteers for those organizations. To ensure that all those in need of literacy services can access them, LCCT runs the regional literacy hotline and publishes a printed directory of literacy services. In two of our most successful partnerships, the Coalition worked with literacy providers to create integrated workplace and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) education programs for the hospitality and healthcare industries. LCCT administers a G.E.D. scholarship fund and distributes over 11,000 free books to children every year.

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