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One day until we announce our new 2013-2014 WMF Scholars! For six days we will share the different stories of current WMF Scholars who are making a difference in their communities worldwide. We hope you become inspired to become an active member of your community. It is the power of a community that creates change. […]

Two days until we announce our new 2013-2014 WMF Scholars! For six days we will share the different stories of current WMF Scholars who are making a difference in their communities worldwide. We hope you become inspired to become an active member of your community. It is the power of a community that creates change. […]

Lolly Burgin Director of Read to Know sent this note Dec. 17:  ” The books arrived Friday and thank you so much. We will take them to Michael’s Energy Factory, a large day-care center in Paterson tomorrow. The staff gives the books to parents to use as Christmas gifts, since many of them have little […]

During our January WMF trip to Haiti, Tom and I participated in the ceremony and festivities launching a brand new YMCA branch in Kenscoff, Haiti – high in the mountains above Port-au-Prince.  In the fall of 2008, WMF sponsored book drives in northern New Jersey and Vermont.  We sorted and shipped 10,000 books to Haiti […]

Literacy News   September 2008 – Began a book drive for Haiti to help stock English language libraries in three Haitian YMCA’s.   October 2008 – With the help of over 25 teen and adult volunteers, we collected, sorted, boxed and shipped 10,000 books to the YMCA libraries in Haiti.   December 2008 – Via […]