Literacy@Work

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

Los Angeles has the highest percentage of undereducated adults of any major metropolitan area in the U.S., with 53% of all working-age adults in L.A. (3.8 million people) who can’t read well enough to use a bus schedule or complete a job application.

There are 3.8 million people in L.A. who can’t read well enough to use a bus schedule or complete a job application.

Launched in June 2003 to address the problem of low-literacy, Literacy@Work was an innovative public/private partnership of organizations dedicated to the advancement of workforce literacy.

The Literacy@Work Project developed and implemented customized literacy trainings for the workplace.

Literacy@Work partnered with the following organizations:

City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles City Workforce Investment Board
Los Angeles Community College District
Los Angeles Unified School District
Volunteer Center of Los Angeles
University of Southern California
United Way of Greater Los Angeles

Major financial supporters included the Alcoa Foundation, Chevron, the City of Los Angeles, the L.A. Workforce Investment Board, the Haynes Foundation, Pitney Bowes, S. Mark Taper Foundation, the Verizon Foundation, and the Weingart Foundation.

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