The 2016 charity for the Diversity & Enterprise Gala is Second Home!
"Second home was created to meet critical needs of children from the most impoverished neighborhoods in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Teachers at Second Home provide care for 100 children in grades k-7 before and after school. Second Homes mission is to ensure that working families have access to safe, affordable, quality child care which has a firm focus on academic services for their elementary and middle school children." secondhomeharrisonburgva.wordpress.com/
The purpose of the Gala is to raise awareness of Second Home, and to raise a bit of money to help them with their charitable endeavor. Let's make this year's Gala another fun and successful event!
The 2nd Annual Diversity Gala benefiting Skyline Literacy and in Partnership will take place on Thursday, October 8th at CrossKeys Vineyard!
Skyline Literacy began in 1987 as a group of several independent adult literacy efforts who came together under the name Skyline Literacy Coalition. At that time, our primary goal was to serve local adult learners who struggle with literacy, but we soon expanded that goal to include all types of adult learners, including non-native English speakers. In May 2008, we moved from Dayton to Harrisonburg and changed our name to Skyline Literacythe name under which we currently operate.
In our 25 years of serving the Valleys literacy needs, the number of our adult learners has tripled from 100 to an annual average of 300. We have also created a Citizenship Preparation class in order to help our adult learners who have emigrated from other countries obtain American citizenship, and weve added several satellite sites to better accommodate our learners. As a nonprofit organization, we put the needs of our learners first and are dedicated to meeting to their needs, which is why weve developed a unique instructional approach that:
The Harrisonburg Rockingham Chamber of Commerce Di-versity Council meets every 2nd Thursday, 12 noon at the Chamber offices at 800 Country Club Road, Harrisonburg, VA 22802.
