Rotary Club of Toledo, OH, USA: Jim Funk is the Executive Director of Read for Literacy, a position he has held for over five years. Prior to joining RFL, Jim served in a variety of positions including serving as co-founder and for ten years a principal in the Toledo based PR/Marketing firm of Funk/Luetke, Inc., now FLS Marketing. In 2009 Toledo Rotary provided a $5,000 grant to provide books and learning materials for a new program, Creating Young Readers, which was being launched by Read for Literacy with three-year demonstration funding from the Stanahan, Toledo Community and Anderson foundations. Jim's presentation reports to Rotary on the successes achieved during the first two years along with the plans for the future.
