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LVCC is a private non-profit organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and operated by five part-time staff members, including federal work-study students from Northern Arizona University and AmeriCorps volunteers. Funding for LVCC comes from the United Way of Northern Arizona, Coconino County, private foundations, individual and business donors and fundraising. LVCC receives no state or federal money for its operations.
LVCC was started in 1992 as an initiative of the United Way of Northern Arizona. In 1995 LVCC became an affiliate of Literacy Volunteers of America. Inc. (LVA). In 2002 LVA and Laubach Literacy International merged to become the world's largest volunteer literacy organization, ProLiteracy Worldwide. In 2002 LVCC became a fully accredited affiliate of ProLiteracy America, the United States division of ProLiteracy
Worldwide.
Over the years, LVCC has sponsored programs in literature, family literacy, computer literacy, workplace literacy and Spanish for tutors. LVCC launched the Flagstaff Reads Literacy Lecture Series in 1995 and the Northern Arizona Book Festival in 1997. LVCC continues to assist in the volunteer coordination of the Book Festival and receives a part of its ticket sales. LVCC is also a site for Northern Arizona University student interns who wish to learn about managing non-profits, promoting social justice, and developing language and literacy skills. LVCC collaborates with other adult education programs in the region through the Coconino Literacy Council,
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