What we do:
Dickerson Literacy Initiatives, LLC (DLI) is a specialized consulting company that designs literacy projects. We work with individuals, businesses, literacy foundations, churches and civic organizations to create and develop literacy projects which benefit children. Our projects support literacy, encourage a love of reading, raise awareness, strengthen and inspire community unity through collaboration. DLI donates well written and beautifully illustrated new books to support the reading initiative set forth in each literacy project. Age and culturally appropriate titles are carefully selected and approved for donation to school libraries, classrooms and given directly to children to create home libraries.
Our projects include:
Reading to and with children
Encouraging a love of reading
Creating opportunity and special memories with role models
Strengthening the communities we serve
Collaborative structure and design to make a significant impact
Initiatives to raise awareness and create unity
Sustainability
Fun and memorable presentations
Improving reading proficiency
Promoting the continued growth of Rotary through collaboration
Marketing for our sponsors and all those involved
Preventing the Summer Slide
Special events around National holidays with educational resources
Donating new, high quality books to support a reading initiative
Investing in our most precious resource, children
““Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.””