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Board of Directors

The Literacy Partners Board of Directors is comprised of senior-level executives from prominent publishing and news corporations which add tremendous value to the stature and credibility of our literacy programs, including the President and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Vice President/Chief Communications Officer of The Hearst Corporation, President of Simon and Schuster Adult Publishing Group, Editor of Newsweek, Inc., along with the Executive Director of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.

Officers

Chairman

Peter Brown

Vice President

Parker B. Ladd

Treasurer

John H. Josephson

Secretary

Lee V. Eastman

Executive Committee Members

Jacqueline Weld Drake
Susan Magrino Dunning
Jane Friedman
Mark H. Jackson
Kath Raymond Hinton
Sonia Reese
Arnold Scaasi
Jeffrey Sharp

Honorary Chairmen

Liz Smith
Jacqueline Weld Drake

Board Members

Adele G. Bergreen

Barbara Taylor Bradford Bradford Enterprises

Robert Bradford Bradford Enterprises

Peter Brown
President, Brown Lloyd James Ltd.

Gina Centrello
President and Publisher, Random House Publishing Group

Jacqueline Weld Drake

Susan Magrino Dunning
The Susan Magrino Agency

Lee V. Eastman
Partner, Eastman & Eastman

Jane Friedman CEO & Co-Founder Open Road Integrated Media

Katharine Raymond Hinton

Sharon King Hoge

Charles M. Jackson
Acorn Investments

Mark H. Jackson
General Counsel, Dow Jones & Company

John H. Josephson
Managing Director, Allen & Company LLC

Leslie R. Klotz
Director, Business Development

Parker B. Ladd
Ladd Ltd.

Sonia Reese
Executive Director, Community Impact, Columbia University

Carolyn K. Reidy
President and CEO, Simon and Schuster

Arnold Scaasi
President and CEO, Arnold Scaasi, Inc.

Jeffrey Sharp
President & Co-Founder Open Road Integrated Media

Edwidge Jourdain Thomas
Managing Director, 104 Thirdplace LLC

Mark Whitaker
Senior Vice President, NBC News

About Literacy Partners

Literacy Partners believes that everyone has a right to read and succeed. We offer classes to teach adults the basic literacy skills essential to a full life as individuals, parents and citizens.

We help to ameliorate key social problems including, poverty, crime, poor parenting, welfare dependency, health and financial illiteracy. Through participation in our programs, our students become capable, committed, and enter the mainstream of society.

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Making Donations

There are many ways to support Literacy Partners mission, but the easiest way is by pledging funds to sustain our ongoing programs.

Nothing could be easier and more direct than making a cash gift, by check or credit card, to Literacy Partners. While making an immediate impact in support of our mission, you will also receive a tax deduction of up to 50% of your adjusted gross income. Any excess is deductible over the next five years.