ALP 2022 Annual Report

Augustine Literacy Project

2022 Annual Report

Our urgent challenge. Our strong commitment.

Our urgent commitment.

It is an honor to lead ALP because it lifts lives and changes futures. That wonderful truth brings with it a reading solution for the aspiring readers we serve. ALP students and their hope is what inspires me in leading this organization. What compels me towards urgency are the challenging truths about our work.

I want you to know exactly why you, and we, must commit to helping ALP meet this crisis.

I wish that all 3rd grade students in our schools could read at grade level. But right now, that is far from reality.

I wish that the thousands of children needing supplemental instruction had the same opportunities and access to education.

But today, these kids are further behind than ever before. And, these kids are the ones already facing huge challenges.

I want you to know exactly who ALP lifts up with the power of reading. I want you to know exactly how ALP helps aspiring readers.

I wish that fewer, not more, principals and teachers in our schools were desperately asking for help for their students. But this year, there are more educators urgently asking for ALP in their schools.

I wish we weren’t facing a reading crisis in our community. But the truth is, we are in exactly that crisis.

What resources, time and energy will we commit to meeting this crisis? My commitment as ALP’s leader is to make sure you respond to this question knowing three things clearly. Why. Who. How.

This annual report is an invitation to you. Join us in a commitment that can change students’ lives forever with ALP.

Steve

Hall, Executive Director, ALP

Our community is in a crisis.

Meet Sam.

Sam was painfully aware and self-conscious about his inability to read. “It’s too hard,” Sam would say to me, “I’m not good at it.”

During our time, he learned his letters and sounds. While he still struggled with blending words, I noticed he was self-correcting and one day exclaimed, “I’m getting good at this!”

Later in the year, I was reading to Sam when he stopped me and demanded that he read, saying “I want to read my book.”

Jeff Brand, Virtual ALP Tutor

“I'm getting good at this!”

Sam, Virtual ALP Student

20,000 students in grades K–3 in CMS have been identified in needing supplemental literacy instruction.

Committed to aspiring readers.

Aspiring readers

ALP staff and educators in schools collaborate to match first-grade through third-grade students approximately a year below grade-level reading with an ALP volunteer tutor.

Progress together

Committed to results.

“We were excited to learn that virtual and in-person tutoring had the same results.”

Steve Hall, Executive Director

Committed to growth.

20,000 students in grades K–3 in CMS have been identified in needing supplemental literacy instruction. The reach of ALP must intervene in the face of the stark reality. We as a community are in a literacy crisis. ALP is committed to ensure that all students across Mecklenburg County have access to our critical reading resources.

Title 1 Elementary schools not served by ALP ALP Partner Schools

Charlotte

ALP is grateful to these generous donors who are committed to unlocking the joy of reading and lifelong learning for aspiring readers in our community.

Augustine Society Illuminators

($50,000+)

Anonymous

The Belk Foundation

C.D. Spangler Foundation, Inc. Charlotte Wine + Food Reemprise Fund

The Merancas Foundation, Inc.

Read Charlotte Transformation Fund

Robert Walker Tutoring Fund

Augustine Society Clarions

($25,000 – $49,999)

Anonymous Fred W. Klein, Jr.

The Leon Levine Foundation

Jill and Don Olmstead

Presidents Cup/PGA Tour, Inc.

Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation

The Stubblefield Foundation

Ann and Tom Temple Truist Financial

Augustine Society Accelerators ($10,000 – $24,999)

Anonymous Dana and Justin Adams Allstate

Ally Financial, Inc.

Alpha & Omega Foundation

The George W. and Ruth R. Baxter Foundation

Betsy and Michael Blair

Vivian and Jim Boylan

Brighthouse Financial Foundation

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation, Children & Youth Fund

Nancy and Bruce Downing

Annette and Shaun Dreyer

Christy Durbin and Rodney Sims

Sally and Curt Fochtmann

Kathy and Ben Hill James Family Foundation

Mindy and Bob Jones Knight Foundation

Kristin LaPrise and Barbara Lom

LendingTree

Wandra and George Mackie

OrthoCarolina Foundation

Laura and John Spencer Louise Whitley

Augustine Society Investors ($5,000 – $9,999)

Kathryn and Darren Ash

Barings, LLC

Amy and Robert Brinkley

Koren and Steve Cranford

Diane and Michael Dumais

Katie Garvey

Eleanor and Rick Hahn

Hahn - Mason Air Systems, Inc.

Kathy and Steve Horvath

Julie Lerner Levine

Mary and Charles Love

Novare Capital Management

Christina and Dee O’Dell

Mary Ruth and Philip Payne

Elaine and Joe Peterson Raytheon Technologies

Beth Rogerson

Jan and Tommy Shealy

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

United Way of Central Carolinas

US Bank

Augustine Society Visionaries ($2,500 – $4,999)

Allied Caster & Equipment Co.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Katherine and Tom Bunn

Sally and Ward Davis

Amy Levine Dawson and Alfred Dawson

Samantha and Kelly Dunbar

Episcopal Church Women of Christ Church (The Good News Shop)

The Good Samaritan Fund

Cindy and Curt Grantham

Sara and William Graves

Carol Gray-Adler and James Adler

Wendy and Steve Hall

Harvard Business School Association

Alison Houser

Mary and Bob Long

Emily and Mark Maier

Gene and Michael Mallonee

Anjali and John Markey

Rebecca and William McNair

Michele Melchior

Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery

Katrina and Matthew Nichols

Anne and Walker Poole

Paul Reichs

Robinson Bradshaw

Rodgers Builders

Marion and Mike Shields

Kristin and Andy Stinson

Ashley and Joel Turner

Frances and Kerry Van Voorhis

Julie and Perry White

Augustine Society Champions ($1,000 – $2,499)

Anonymous Julie Ahdieh

Candace Armstrong

Eleanor and James Barnhardt Chris Black

Betty and Roosevelt Blackwell

Betsy and Bill Blue Debbie Blystone

Odette Bonvouloir

Beth and Bill Bowen

Laura Bowers

Laura and Sam Bowles

Wendy and Bob Bradford

Lori Bredder

Jean Brinkmann

Charlie Brinley

Brian Bucci

CAPTRUST Community Fund

Marti and Tom Cato Mack Clark

Kathy Cornell

Lucy and Perrin DesPortes

Dru Dougherty

Rebecca and Mike Drendel

Charlie Elberson

Janice Elder

Martha and William Eubank

Rusty

Beth and Bill Hobbs

Ellen Holliday

Lyttleton and Thomas Hollowell

Page and Martin Hull

Marion and Chris Idol

Elizabeth Johnston

Kathryn and Luke Kissam

Liz Lassiter

Whitney and Ken Loeber

Maria and Nash Long

Mary and Bill Lunsford

Robin and John Maxwell

Susan and Kevin McCarter

Kerry and Charles McCarville

Method

Ann and Bert Miano

Microsoft

Ann and George Miles John Munce

Julie Newcomb

Eve and Albert Nichols

Denise Dupre and Mark Nunnelly

Park Road Baptist Church

Anne and Scott Perper

R. B. Pharr & Associates

Sherri and Hank Ralston

Anne Ranson

Donna Rice

Kim and Tom Rickenbaker

Libby and Don Roberts

Valerie Pearsall Roberts

Anne Robinson

Susan and Bob Salvin

Lizabeth Clardy and Ken Samuelson

Mattye and Marc Silverman

Paul Finnen

First Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Women

Carlton Fleming Jr. William Geiger

Ruth Ellen and Thold Gill

and Tony Gray

Janet and Steve Heffner

Linda and Bill Hefner

Kristin Heidkamp

Julie Heidrick

Josephine Hicks

Sally Higgins

Anne

Patty

Claire

Allison

The Trexler Foundation

Kelly Zellars and Henry Trexler

Robin and Steve Weaver

Sylvia Weaver

LeeAnne

Sandy

Holly

Builders

($500 – $999)

Ann and Bob Abel

Rosalyn Allison-Jacobs

Marc Atwood

Addison and Randall Ayer

Ellen and Joel Babb

Katrice Boland

Selwyn Avenue Presbyterian Church

Jan and Jim Brittain

Jeanne Broyhill and Joe Ventrone

Cynthia and Peter Buck

Libby Cable

CBRE

Elizabeth and Saxby Chaplin

Carol Childress

Katharine and Mike Cowan

Ann Cramer

Anne Davant

David Deal and Steve Bentley

Bonnie Fleming

Madison and Jo Haden Galbraith

Karen and Steve Gosselin

Robert Griffin

Davis Hahn

Bobbie and Richard Hahn

Kim and Brian Heath

Christie Hinshaw

Barbara Holt

The Horne Company Partners, LLC

Genie and Reuben Hufham

David Jacobson

Jenny Hutchison and Neil Giardino

Julie and David Lavoie

Lawrence Lewis

Cortney

Malyn

Advocates

($250 – $499)

Katherine

Nancy

Dee

The Duke Endowment

Victoria Durham Rebecca Fant and John Alday

Jeannie and Robert Fuller

Beth Geiger

Cindy and Walter Goldsmith

Esther and Scott Goldstein

Myron Gray

Deidre and Clay Grubb

Patty Gruce Christi Hart

Jess and Dan Heath

Patty and Jim Henderlite

Kate Hill Jane and Dick Houser

Rick Hudson

Anne Kalbaugh Karen Kelleher

Susan Dosier and Des Keller

George Kroustalis

MaryLou and Ron Larson

Terry Lehmann

Tammie and Lou Lesesne

Joan and Gene Lunman

Amber and Phil Lynch

Hugh Wilfong

Earnest Winston Bookworms

($1 – $249)

Anonymous Kim Adden

Natalie Akin Holly Alexander Andrew Alexander Amazon Smile

Johanna and Christopher Anderson Ellen Archer

Mary Ann Archer Hugh Ashcraft

Erin Ashendorf

Matthew Atkins

Richard Baker

Erin Barbee

Sherri Beaver Caren Bechtold

Holly Becker

Deborah Bell

Alyssa Belsito

Paula Bennett

Joy and Robert Bethea Jane Blount Nancy Bobbitt Roberta and Ed Bograd Chris Brenner Bright Funds Foundation Grey Timberlake Brownlow

and Michael Sinsheimer

and Don Smyth

and John Tate

and John Tibe

and Bill Whitley

and Doug Wilson

and Jim Wood

True Homes Foundation, Inc.

Caron and Jamie Lye Margaret Marshall

and Fritz Nauck

Kathleen and Thomas O’Bannon Michelle Pounds

and Vince Pratt

Margaret and Rusty Rainey

Ann Reed

Ian Leonard and Tracy Russ Marsden Sale

Trent Family Foundation Jennifer Troyer Amy and Mark Vitner Murray and Philip Walker Velva and Tom Woollen

and Garland Cassada

Charlotte Woman’s Club

and Charles Conner Benner Crigler

Dee and Ed Dalrymple

Christopher Marblo

Aimee and Scot Mascioli Mary Ellen McElroy

Ann and Bert Miano Elizabeth Neely Terry Nelly Mary Ann and Eric O’Brien Courtney and John Ramey Jo Shirley

Ninabeth Sowell Jeanne Tappy Kathy Thomas

Patrick Torrey Alice and Brent Torstrick Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign

Nancy Broyhill Barbara and Richard Buckingham Ellen Carlisle Henry Cato Andrew Chambless Janice Chappell John Clarkson Diann and Vance Cockerham Timothy Coffey Sue Coonen Philip Cope Henry Covington, Jr. Shirley Cress Dudley Kristina Cruise Susie Culp Selma Curry Elizabeth and Joe Davant Greta Davis Gaither and Robert Deaton Christine DeBiase Mary Kay Deering Stuart Deets Dina DeFabo Wilson Delta Kappa Gamma Jennifer DeWitt Quentin Dixon Betty Doster Jennifer and Jim Drizos Hope Drummond William East Annalise Eberhard Teara Edwards Sonya Eremenco Mickey Estefan Rebeca Fernandez Fannie Flono Kathy Foushee Jaime Franco Mimi and Sally Frank Dorian Fritze Nathan Gagnon Cheryl Gallan and Craig Fairbrother Melissa Gamez Stephanie Ganey Sam Gardner Kathy and Don Gately Lourdes Gee Debbie George

Harriet Gilman

Julia and Gary Gloster

Ann and John Glover

Beth Gordon Gail and Tim Gray

Martha Green

Amy Greene

Brian Griffin

Marja Grillo

Andrew Hampshire

Norene and William Hart Gena Haywood

Katherine Herreid Heather Herring

Joan Hileman

Kay and George Hodges Jackie Hohenstein Patricia Massey Hoke Laura Hollingsworth

Charniece Holmes Michael Hummer Alicia Iacono Linda Ibsen Amy Johnson Sheryl Johnson Stuart Jones Julie Kaufman Peter Keane Laura Kenkel Joan Kilian Bev King Jessica Klasinski Alla Kouakou Kurt Kuelz

John Lafirira

Diane Larson Natalie Lewis Sabrina Life-Clark Michelle Lovan Evelyn Maben-Hall and Hugh Hall Margo MacKenzie Karen MacKenzie Blue Magruder Nancy Magyer Billie Maitland Chris Martin Patricia Martin Ruth Mayer and William Bacon

Joanne McAndrews

Ann

Susan McConnell

Laurie McDonald

Freda McKenzie

Kathleen

Carolyn

Debbie and Rick Miller

Kaitlyn

Lisa

Catherine

John

Karen and Andy Nicholson

Gerard Nigro

Kristina Osores-Evans

Frances and Charles Payet

Linda and Joe Payment

Makeda Pennycooke

Leslie and Paul Perlik

Laura Peterson

Martha Player

Poppy Pritchett

Cynthia Quick

Becky and Lester Ranson

Denise Ratchford

Allyssa and Dennis Reitz

Mike Rizer

John Roddey

Alejandra Rodriguez

Russell Investments

Alicia Scala

Patty Schigoda

Kartik Sethuraman

Matt Sharp

Carin Shepherd

Sarah and Allen Shifflet

Lenora Shipp

Julie and Neil Smith

Susan Spencer-Smith and Bryan Smith

Betsy Smith

Mary Speed

Helen Spence

Robin Greene Sperling

Ambika and Jeffrey Spinazzola

Teresa Starr

Bill Stevenson

Legacy tribute.

Wendy Munce was an ALP supporter from its inception. She had a passion for

teaching aspiring readers and brought great joy to children as a beloved ALP tutor.

She provided strong, graceful leadership to our ALP community as the second Board Chair.

Wendy leaves behind a legacy of compassion and caring. She shared these gifts through her service to the community. ALP is deeply grateful to be part of her memory and among those who have been impacted by her.

Mike Blair Jim Boylan

Beverly Clark

Laura Freeman

Kate Futch Gena Haywood

Alison Houser Des Keller

Bev King Kristin LaPrise

Wendy Munce Cindy and Rich Schneider

Lynn Schweitzer

Andrea Smith

Ann and Tom Temple Michelle and Gregory Yin Sue Younts

Upon her passing, the Munce family worked with ALP to create the Wendy Munce Tutor Training Fund. The Fund will support the training of new ALP tutors and will manifest Wendy’s formidable teaching talents. This will serve as a living tribute through the continued work in the years ahead.

Thank you to those who contributed in honor of Wendy’s Legacy.

Candace Armstrong

Betsy and Michael Blair

Debbie Blystone

Grey Timberlake Brownlow

Sylvia and Tom Brydon

Kate Buckfelder

Elizabeth and Saxby Chaplin

Nancy and Charles Conner

Sally and Ward Davis

Debra Dawson

David Deal and Steve Bentley

Judy and Michael Degernes

Sheila and Paul Dworkin

Megan

Eleanor and Rick Hahn Wendy and Steve Hall Kim and Brian Heath

Alison Houser

Marion and Chris Idol

Bev King

Jessica Klasinski

Audrey and Christopher Lakin

Maria and Nash Long

The Munce Family

Karen and Andy Nicholson Jill and Don Olmstead

Allen and Sarah Shifflet

Ann and Tom Temple

Lynn Watson

Susan Watterworth

Anne and Christopher Woolley

Elizabeth and Garrett Wyckoff Anne Zahlan

Camilla Mazzotta

Sue McAdams

McCain

Bambrick Meier

Miller

Miller

Miller

Monroe

Moses

Stonehenge Technology Labs

Jennifer Stuart Sara Taddeo Leslie Teague Kathy Thompson

Robert Thornton Sateesh Varanasi Kristy Ward Steve White Betsy and James Williams Sally and Joe Williamson Amy and Julian Wright

Donna Yelverton Michelle Yin Margaret Zeller

ALP Tribute

ALP Staff

Ellen Babb

Anne Davant

Gina Elam Susan Flaherty

and Larry Forrest Frederic Gresset

Debbie and David McCarthy

Jocelyn Graham and Patrick McLaughlin

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