About Us

 
Board of Trustees
President
Cynthia Forster
North Jersey Media Group
 
Vice President
Ben Focarino
President, Passaic Leather
 
Secretary
Emmy Bledsoe
Co-Founder, Project Literacy
 

Treasurer
Marina Mlloja

TD Bank

Members

Ree Adler, Esq.
Karen Beckford Bennett - The Lovell J. Honiss School-Dumont
Rosa Bland - Coalition of 100 Black Women
Jonathan Blitt - Aztec Software
Larry Eisen - FIP Graphics
Dean Walter Hecht - Founding President, Project Literacy
Thomas R. McVeigh - Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc.
Laszlo Moharita - Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.
Corethia V.E. Oates - Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Warren T. Oates, Jr.
Joseph Pandolfi, Esq.
Harry K. Panjwani, M.D., Ph.D. - Medical Research and Consultation
Grace Pichardo - Hackensack University Medical Center
Bea Podorefsky -National Council of Jewish Women
Paul Ragusa -Bergen Community College
Marilyn Rosica - Rosica Strategic Public Relations
Lewis “Kip” Weldon - Cowan Financial Group

Executive Director
   Scott Reddin

Honorary Board
    

This group of committed individuals has lent their support to the mission of 

Project Literacy.  We are proud to call them our honorary board and our friends:

   

    Wally Amos
         Founder, Chip & Cookie Read It Aloud Foundation

 

 Harry Carson

 Former NY Giant and Member of Football Hall of Fame

 

     Mary Higgins Clark
     Best-Selling Novelist

 

   Olympia Dukakis
   Academy Award Winning Actress

     Thomas H. Kean
    Former Governor of New Jersey
    Chairman of the September 11 Commission
  

       

      Charles Osgood
      CBS

 




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... help an adult learn to read


… promote literacy in Bergen County

… for yourself, a family member or friend

 
Project Literacy of Bergen County provides hope and opportunity for adults who cannot read, write or speak English.  It oversees a free tutoring program for the people of Bergen County and the surrounding area.  It administers a scholarship program to the disadvantaged in the community who wish to attend literacy classes at the Bergen Community College
 
355 Main Street Hackensack, New Jersey
07601 (201 ) 489-7066 | Fax: (201) 968-9732

read@project-literacy.org