About Northern Nevada Literacy Council

Helping adult learners achieve their educational and career goals.

The Northern Nevada Literacy Council (NNLC) was founded in 1978 and incorporated in 1983. Northern Nevada Literacy Council is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in a low-income neighborhood of Northeast Reno that has provided services and resources to the community for over 40 years. NNLC’s mission is to help low-income, low-literacy adult learners achieve their literacy and educational goals while reinforcing beneficial family literacy behaviors in the home, leading to increased education, literacy, and workforce development that is crucial to our community’s economic growth.

• NNLC offers classes preparing adult learners ages 17 and older to sit for the High School Equivalency (HSE) exam.
• NNLC offers classes to improve English literacy (speaking, reading and writing) for English Language learners. NNLC also offers Citizenship classes preparing those to those seeking permanent U.S. residency to sit for the naturalization exam and interview.
• NNLC was awarded one of the largest Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) out-of-school youth grant preparing youth ages 16 to 24 for the workforce by helping these youths achieve an HSE, enter post-secondary education/vocational training, access work experience opportunities, and enter the workforce.
• Adults also learn how support their children’s reading development through the parent/child Family Reading Program, which gives parents concrete techniques for building children’s literacy and promotes a home culture of reading and esteem for education among northern Nevada families.

When combined, NNLC’s literacy initiatives result in educated adults and families who contribute to a more stable and economically healthy work force in Northern Nevada.