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Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy


Robin Ferst, Chairman

Founder, Board Chair of Ferst Foundation

Margaret Quinlin, Vice Chair
President, Peachtree Publishers

Dr. Bill Rushing, Treasurer
Retired Economist, Georgia State University

Dr. Stan DeJarnett, Secretary
Superintendent, Morgan County School System

Dr. Terry Blum
Tedd Munchak Chairholder
Georgia Tech Professor, Director, Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship

Kwanza Hall
Elected Member, Atlanta City Council

Nancy Hall
Former Interim Executive Director, Georgia Public Broadcasting

Robert Hall
Retired IBM & Currently Principal, HRH Consulting

Mary Hammond
Tax Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Margaret Hylton Jones
Owner, Margaret Jones and Associates

Kenan Kern
Founder, The Kern Group, LLC
2008-2009 Rotary District 6920 Governor

Hardman Knox
Chief Financial Officer, The Settings Development Companies

Allison Laird
Manager, Mergers and Acquisition - Tax, KPMG LLP

Ann Marchetti Mintz
Director, Public Policy, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta

Alexander G. (Sandy) Morehouse
Owner, Burge Plantation

David Murphy
President and CEO, Better World Books

Everett Royal
Entrepreneur/Developer

Steve Stanfield
Stockbroker and Partner, DGR Group

Hugh Tarbutton, Jr.
Managing Director, SunTrust Investment Services

Gay Knox Vaughn
Retired Real Estate Broker



STAFF

Executive Director
Shauna von Hanstein


CAT Coordinator
Tera Cochran

 Administrative Assistant
Sandy Bridges-Overton

 

 

How You Can Help

Literacy in Georgia

1 in 5 of our children lives in poverty

Approximately 61 percent of low-income
families do not have a single piece of
reading material suitable for a child

A third of our children come to school
unprepared to learn

Only 28% of Georgia 4th graders read
at or above proficiency

We have the nations third highest rate
of high school dropouts

One in four adults in Georgia operates
at a
low literacy level

Illiteracy and low literate workers
cost Atlanta $4.26 billion and Georgia
businesses $7 billion each year

Several states plan how many jail
cells
they will build in the future by
how many children are not reading on
grade level by third grade 

With your help, this can change…