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The Help Us Grow, Foundation, Inc. (H.U.G.) strives to promote social equality and education for all students allowing them to achieve grade level reading by completion of fourth grade.
H.U.G. incorporates character development and confidence building components to help struggling readers become confident grade level readers, thus improving their life's trajectory.
Raising the U.S. national 4th-grade average reading level
Enabling students to BE THE DIFFERENCE™ to themselves, their family, and their community
Enhancing the employable workforce in the community through education
Reducing the pipeline to prison
H.U.G. uses curriculum with 30 years of research from the University of North Carolina that is used nationwide for reading intervention.
Our H.U.G. tutors help directly address this highly documented need faced by today's educators & future workforce.
Students show increased engagement and positive behavior, while tutors feel honored and valued to share their wisdom.
Regardless of your status as an individual, a church or community organization, or a company with workforce or HR objectives, embracing our mission through either becoming a tutor or donating today offers benefits for individuals and communities as a whole.
The individualized program meets the needs of some of our most striving learners while also integrating social-emotional skills needed to achieve more and become productive citizens. Our students always look forward to the tutoring sessions and have grown over the last several years.
The weekly reading development and word understanding of HUG students is amazing! Being a HUG volunteer for 3 years has been an exceptionally rewarding experience for me and I would highly recommend getting involved and “Making a Difference” for these wonderful children.
What I like about HUG is I used to be kind of a bad reader and, once I joined this (the HUG Reading Program), I got better at reading. I like reading now.
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