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

• Print and mail in this form with your donation to Second Start.

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