VALUE is a charitable organization working to improve our nation's education system and empower adults with low literacy skills to realize their human potential.

Almost all successful for-profit companies systematically use consumer input and feedback to improve their products and services. VALUE helps adult learner leaders, literacy professionals, and policy-makers do this too.

VALUE is a catalyst for social change, dedicated to:

• promote the understanding that each and every one who wants to improve his or her literacy skills can do so;

• encourage and aiding individuals, groups, and organizations to foster the development of leadership skills among adult learners enabling them to assist and improve the programs that helped them;

• advocate for effective education policies and practices; and

• heighten public awareness to increase support for adult literacy efforts.

VALUE is a membership organization, open to everyone who supports our mission.

VALUE is the only national organization governed and operated by current and former adult learners. In effect, we are the alumni association for adult education and English literacy in the U.S.