In Oakland, an estimated one in four English-speaking adults (approximately 80,000 people) can neither write clearly, nor fully understand what they read. Please help us change these statistics.
Making a Donation
Offer Support
- Become a volunteer tutor
- Invite us to speak to your group
- Publicize Second Start in your newsletter or religious/civic bulletins
- Tell your friends and neighbors
- Interest your employer in sponsoring literacy volunteer work
- Make a tax-deductible donation

"I know education is the way out. It is the way out of poverty. That is what is keeping me from getting out of poverty. No education. So I made up my mind. I said, ok, Second Start. It has done a lot for me." Second Start learner

Second Start Adult Literacy Program, Oakland Public Library
1801 Adeline St. Oakland, CA 94607
Tel. (510) 238-3432 / Fax. (510) 238-6934 Email. Norma Jones at njones@oaklandlibrary.org
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