Scout leaders can encourage writing as a pleasurable activity. Work with your local librarian and plan a meeting or trip to the neighborhood or main library branch in your community. Give the young people you work with a chance to become givers and encourage them to start a book drive, become reading partners, or plan an literacy event for younger children. If you represent a business You have a vested interest in young people's literacy because young people who can read, write, and think critically and creatively will become skilled adult workers. Literate adults can also hold higher-paying jobs and have more money to spend as consumers of services and products.
Literacy profits everyone.
Use your clout to support literacy efforts financially. Embrace active partnerships with literacy efforts. When you contribute to young people's literacy now you may forestall spending millions of dollars in the future, sending adult employees to remedial classes. Through your business you may be able to provide direct communication access to the individuals and groups most in need of intervention and education. Readers and nonreaders alike go to grocery stores, fast food outlets, malls, sporting events, etc.