POTSDAM – Literacy Is For Everyone – LIFE – has met a fundraising goal for the new literacy program with help from a Clarkson University fraternity.

Sigma Phi Epsilon sponsored a bike-a-thon fundraiser recently, and rallied alumni donations to raise awareness of the plight of literacy in the North Country, inspiring givers to contribute $1,500.

This allowed the renewed literacy program to meet its first goal for funds to launch LIFE, according to Program Director Maria Morrison.

“The sooner we have funds, the sooner we can purchase curriculum, supplies, tests, and other necessities so that adult literacy services can be freely provided again in St. Lawrence County,” Morrison said.

Meanwhile their GoFundMe campaign continues at https://www.gofundme.com/2sk3jy4.

Morrison says plans are in the works for a gathering to officially launch LIFE on Nov. 19.

Morrison is the former director of Literacy of Northern New York’s St. Lawrence County program, said last month that she and the staff and the board of directors of the Potsdam Pubic Library would work to start a new program after the Watertown-based Literacy of Northern New York pulled its support from St. Lawrence County’s program in late August with no warning, she said.

She said at the time that she and the Potsdam Public Library immediately began looking for an alternative.

Further information on the Clarkson Phi Sig Chapter and some of the good they have done is at http://www.clarkson.edu/news/2002/news-release_2002-03-11-2.html

More info is available via mmorrison@potsdamlibrary.org, at Morrison’s office on the third floor of the library, or call the library at 265-7230.