The Right to Literacy Convention is Coming to Buffalo!

The National Community Literacy Leadership Conference will be held from Wednesday, June 10th to Saturday, June 13th at the Hyatt Hotel in Downtown Buffalo.

The mission of the Annual Conference is to provide challenging, provocative, and enriching educational and networking experiences. Conference activities seek to reflect the diversity of the field and to meet the educational needs and interests of a wide range of literacy coalitions. Participants are encouraged to be active learners and offer new and stimulating ideas, models, and approaches to community literacy and to managing literacy coalitions.

Read to Succeed Buffalo, a coalition of over fifty local organizations dedicated to improving literacy in the City of Buffalo, will be the host for this very significant event. It works with the community to develop and implement solutions that address the literacy needs of people across the entire age span including general literacy, as well as financial, computer, health, and workforce literacy.

On Saturday, June 13th (from 8AM to 2PM), the Conference will culminate with the "Right to Literacy Convention". Many educators, community leaders, and involved citizens are expected to assemble at the Hyatt Hotel to:
* Affirm that low literacy is an injustice that threatens our democracy;
* Introduce specific resolutions from various communities;
* Create a call to action to build a nationwide collaboration for literacy; and
* Sign a Declaration of a Right to Literacy.

Regional delegates will represent their constituent groups at the Convention, in the tradition of the famous 1848 Women’s Rights Seneca Falls Convention. Read to Succeed hopes to reach out to anyone and everyone for this event and encourages all to attend. The June 13th event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For more information please call 843-8895.

Right to Literacy Flyer
Conference Brochure
Buffalo Rising Article
Buffalo News Article
Literacy Data