BayAreaNewsGroup is extending an invitation to all businesses and individuals to invest in California's youth by sponsoring a special educational program.

These topics range from financial literacy to the environment, world geography, the arts and sciences and more. We have the ability to create a teacher's guide or a mini-text supplement on almost any concept appropriate for kindergarten through high school. Our goal is to reach out to students in order to promote literacy, a more effective workforce and more future voters and volunteers to serve our communities.

Teachers who participate will receive a special lesson package with student worksheets and a class set of newspapers once a week. Our distribution covers all public and private schools in the BayAreaNewsGroup circulation area. Potentially 890,000 students, parents, and educators will be aware of the wonderful service you will be making possible.

As a sponsor, you will receive thousands of dollars in promotional recognition through publicity and in-paper acknowledgment in Bay Area newspapers - including identification on the lesson plans, worksheets, and cover of each teacher's guide. Cost of the sponsorship varies depending on a variety of factors.

Help us fight illiteracy. California is losing its innovative edge. Thousands of young readers are counting on you. To find out more, call Educational Partnerships Manager Sherri Goldsmith at
(925) 952-5086.