Help Orange Literacy conquer the outrageous 14% adult illiteracy rate that exists in this community of plenty – sponsor Writers for Readers, our biggest event of the year! Your involvement makes a huge impact!  

Join us as Bill Ferris – Grammy winner and senior associate director emeritus at UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South – interviews Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt and gospel singer-historian-educator Mary D. Williams in "Our Universal Language: How Songs Move Us to Read.”

13th Annual Writers for Readers
Sunday, March 8
4 pm
Carolina Club
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC-Chapel Hill

** An Orange Literacy staffer will contact you once you complete this form to review your sponsorship and discuss payment.

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS/BENEFITS:

Presenting Sponsor $25,000
Your name incorporated into our event logo. 8 tickets to Writers for Readers; recognition in promotional materials and listing in program. If you wish, Orange Literacy will also work with you to film a video message and put it on our social media.
* An example of what this might fund: Covers cost of  classroom space for as many as 300 students annually

Publisher $10,000
8 tickets to Writers for Readers; recognition in promotional materials and listing in program.
*  An example of what this might cover: Funds 15 families to prepare their young children to start school on time and on task

Editor $5,000
6 tickets to Writers for Readers; recognition in promotional materials and listing in program.
* An example of what this might fund: Covers cost of teaching 10 potential citizens what they need to know to pass the naturalization test

Writer $2,500
4 tickets to Writers for Readers; recognition in promotional materials and listing in program.
* An example of what this might fund: Covers cost of 20 licenses for online instructional software for our ESOL students

Reader $1,000
2 tickets to Writers for Readers and a listing in program.
* An example of what this might fund: Covers cost of workbooks, supplies, and other materials for roughly 20 students per semester

Note: Upon request, Orange Literacy will also work with sponsors to film a video message and put it on our social media.