Partner With Routes to Knowledge
Together, We Can Create Pathways to Opportunity
At Routes to Knowledge (R2K), we believe learning opens doors.
We help adult learners strengthen the English reading, writing, speaking, and practical literacy skills they need to navigate everyday life with greater confidence and independence.
As we grow, we are creating opportunities that connect literacy with financial well-being, digital skills, workforce readiness, family learning, and meaningful participation in the community.
Businesses, financial institutions, educational organizations, nonprofits, community groups, and other organizations can play an important role in helping adults gain knowledge, strengthen skills, and move toward new opportunities.
Choose How You’d Like to Make an Impact
There is no single way to partner with Routes to Knowledge. We welcome partnerships that bring together knowledge, resources, people, and opportunities to support adult learners.
EDUCATE
Share What You Know
Bring your organization’s knowledge and expertise directly to adult learners.
- English literacy and conversation
- Financial literacy
- Digital skills
- Career development
- Family literacy
- Practical life skills
VOLUNTEER
Give Your Time. Share Your Skills.
Engage your employees, members, students, or professional team in meaningful service.
- Adult literacy tutoring
- English conversation
- Career mentoring
- Mock interviews
- Digital skills support
- Community events
SPONSOR
Invest in Learning and Opportunity
Help R2K expand learning opportunities and reduce barriers facing adult learners.
- Sponsor a learner
- Sponsor a learning cohort
- Support workshops
- Support technology access
- Sponsor literacy showcases
- Support special initiatives
EQUIP
Provide Tools for Learning
Help learners gain access to the resources and technology they need to participate and succeed.
- Laptops and tablets
- Internet connectivity
- Books and materials
- Educational software
- Meeting space
- Professional services
EMPLOY
Connect Learning With Opportunity
Help adult learners connect developing skills with employment and career opportunities.
- Career presentations
- Résumé workshops
- Mock interviews
- Workplace tours
- Career mentoring
- Employment pathways
CONNECT
Strengthen the Community Network
Help connect adult learners with programs, services, organizations, and community resources.
- Refer adult learners
- Share community resources
- Host programs or events
- Participate in resource fairs
- Provide specialized services
- Collaborate on community initiatives
English for Everyday Life
Help Adults Build Language Skills and Confidence
English literacy can help adults communicate more confidently at work, at home, and throughout the community.
Routes to Knowledge provides opportunities for adult learners to strengthen English reading, writing, speaking, vocabulary, conversation, and practical communication skills they can use in everyday life.
Partners can help by:
- Sponsoring English instruction
- Supporting online learning opportunities
- Providing volunteer tutors
- Serving as English conversation partners
- Providing technology or internet connectivity
- Providing learning materials and educational resources
- Referring adults who may benefit from English-language and literacy support
Your organization’s time, expertise, resources, or financial support can help create more opportunities for adults to learn, practice, and grow.
Money Matters
Financial Literacy for Everyday Life
Financial knowledge can help adults and families make informed decisions, manage everyday expenses, plan for future needs, and work toward greater financial stability.
Routes to Knowledge seeks financial institutions, financial professionals, and qualified community organizations interested in helping us expand practical financial education opportunities for adult learners and families.
Potential learning topics include:
- Household budgeting
- Banking basics
- Checking and savings
- Setting financial goals
- Building emergency savings
- Understanding credit
- Understanding credit reports
- Responsible borrowing
- Online and mobile banking
- Financial fraud and scam awareness
- Financial planning basics
- Preparing for major expenses
Together, we can help make financial information practical, understandable, and relevant to everyday life.
R2K Community Literacy Showcase
Celebrate Learning. Celebrate Achievement. Celebrate Community.
Routes to Knowledge envisions the Community Literacy Showcase as a welcoming opportunity to bring adult learners, families, volunteers, community organizations, and supporters together around literacy, learning, and lifelong growth.
These community experiences can create opportunities for learners to recognize their progress, discover new resources, connect with organizations, and see learning celebrated throughout the community.
Literacy Showcases may include:
- Adult learner achievements
- Learner presentations and readings
- Family literacy activities
- Books and learning resources
- Financial literacy activities
- Digital literacy demonstrations
- Community resource organizations
- Partner exhibits
- Volunteer opportunities
- Learner recognition
Community partners can join R2K as event sponsors, exhibitors, workshop presenters, volunteers, educational partners, resource providers, or collaborators helping us create meaningful learning experiences for the community.
Community Impact Days
Bring Your Team. Make an Impact.
Looking for a meaningful way for your employees, students, members, or community group to serve together?
Routes to Knowledge can work with organizations to develop hands-on Community Impact Days centered around adult learning, literacy, access, and community engagement.
Your team might:
- Assemble learner welcome kits
- Prepare literacy and educational resources
- Organize books and learning materials
- Create family learning kits
- Practice conversational English with learners
- Provide digital-skills assistance
- Participate in career-readiness activities
- Support financial-literacy activities
- Volunteer at an R2K Community Literacy Showcase
R2K can work with your organization to identify a service opportunity that connects your team’s interests, professional skills, and community-impact goals with meaningful needs within our learning community.
Colleges & Universities
Turn Learning Into Service
Routes to Knowledge welcomes opportunities to collaborate with colleges, universities, technical schools, faculty, academic programs, and student organizations.
Higher education partnerships can give students opportunities to apply what they are learning while helping R2K expand learning, literacy, and community engagement opportunities for adult learners.
Partnership opportunities may include:
- Service-learning projects
- Student internships
- Adult literacy tutoring
- English conversation programs
- Education internships
- Social work internships
- Communications and marketing projects
- Technology assistance
- Financial literacy programming
- Community research projects
- Community event support
- Special academic projects
R2K can work with faculty, academic departments, student organizations, and community-engagement programs to explore projects that connect academic learning with meaningful community service.
Why Partner With R2K?
Your partnership can help create learning opportunities that strengthen individuals, families, and the communities we share.
Expand Access
Help connect more adults with meaningful learning opportunities.
Build Confidence
Help learners develop skills they can use in everyday life.
Support Economic Mobility
Connect literacy with financial knowledge, digital skills, and workforce preparation.
Strengthen Families
Support knowledge and skills that can extend beyond the individual learner.
Build Community
Bring organizations and residents together around learning and opportunity.
Let’s Create Something Together
Have Another Partnership Idea? We’re Listening.
The best partnerships do not always fit neatly into a category. If your organization has expertise, resources, ideas, services, or opportunities that could benefit adult learners and families, we want to hear from you.
Tell us about your organization and what you would like to accomplish. Together, we can explore a partnership that makes sense for your organization, Routes to Knowledge, and the people we serve.
Start a Conversation
Partner With Routes to Knowledge
Tell us a little about your organization and how you would like to get involved. We look forward to exploring what we can accomplish together.