Literacy Action Information

For nearly 50 years, Literacy Action has been a grassroots driver of free adult learning services, providing various levels of educational instruction to advance adults towards employment, citizenship, better wages post-secondary education, and contribution toward their children’s success in school. Founded in 1968 by volunteers at the Central Presbyterian Church in downtown Atlanta, Literacy Action is now the largest nonprofit provider of free adult basic education in Georgia, with a staff of 26 and classes in two core sites as well as several community-based locations around the metro-Atlanta area including schools, libraries, and housing authorities. Literacy Action employs teams of professional adult-education teachers and volunteers to provide a full continuum of courses needed by low-income, undereducated adults.