 Hi, I'm Tom Handel with another CTN member highlight, and I'm also here with Tiana Hall, the director of Literacy Volunteers of Greater Portland, a program of learning works. And we're here to talk about a special event that's coming up to celebrate literacy volunteers 40th anniversary. Is that right? That's true. So to begin with Tiana, what, for people who might not know, although it's hard to believe anybody wouldn't know, what is literacy volunteers? Literacy volunteers is a community-based education program that focuses on providing literacy instruction and English language acquisition instruction to people on a more individual level. So we do one-on-one tutoring, we have some very small groups that meet all over the city. This is a very important function, and it's been going on for 40 years now, hasn't it? It has been, yes. But for 40 years, members of the community have been volunteering with this organization to help other community members learn the skills that they need in order to be successful in life and live independently and successfully, and enjoy all the benefits that we all enjoy through reading. Now, you're planning a very special kind of event, a very interesting kind of event for the 40th anniversary. Can you talk about that a little bit? Yes. So we are planning a Team Trivia Challenge. The goal of the event is to raise funds for the program. The Trivia event will highlight some of the different areas of instruction and learning that our students partake in, and so we'll be quizzing people to see if they know these things. The things that you actually teach some of your participants? The things that we actually teach in our program, yes. So if I was putting a team together, how would I decide whether or not we'd even be competitive in this kind of a challenge? Well, I think that it's, I think everybody is going to be competitive. Some of the questions are going to be questions that all of us know the answers to. Others will be a little bit trickier, and I think that, I think, for anybody who's participating, there's a level of difficulty. If you've got people in your pocket who are eager to support community programs and who are excited about reading and literacy and Trivia event, then that's really all they need to do to put a team together is be willing and fill out a registration form. And where and when is this happening? This is happening on October 10th here in Portland at the Ryan's Auditorium at the Portland Library in the afternoon from two until four. Okay, so people, if they're working, would need to, well, is it during the week, work week? It's during the work week. That's a Thursday. What we're hoping is that people will join as teams from perhaps their offices, from their companies and organizations, so that this is in some part a team building experience and activity for them. They can all do together. Have you ever done anything like this before? No, this is the first time we're doing it and we're doing it really to support the fact that this program is really kind of hit a milestone, which is 40 years in existence, 40 years of really great work and amazing volunteers. So we thought we'd try to do something a little different this time instead of having sort of the usual thank you lunch for everyone, which we will always continue to do those. But this time, we really wanted to get the community involved and folks who don't normally volunteer, maybe have not had the time to take to go through training and be matched up with the student. How many teams can you accommodate? How big is a team usually? What are you expecting? We are saying that a team is going to be anything from two to six individuals. We can accommodate up to 15. 15 teams? Up to 15 teams. Wow. With an audience watching and all. Well, I don't know that we're going to have an audience watching. It's all, you know, people watching are going to be your competitors. So you want to make sure you're being discreet about it. Have you had any responses yet? We have. Yeah, we've had a really great response. We'd still like to see more people get involved. So that's where you come in. Okay. Well, hopefully people will be watching this and, you know, learn about it and want to become involved with it. What weird would they go for more information or find out? For more information right now, they just need to call us. Our number is 775-0105. So if they just gave us a call and just said, I'd like to know more about the trivia challenge then they'd probably connect them to me or any other person there at Learning Works who can answer those questions. Great. Well, thank you very much for joining us. It sounds like fun. Thanks for having me.