In the News: ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ stars, Dave Eggers, donors at youth writing center benefit

By Ann Maloney, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on May 20, 2017 at 8:22 AM, updated May 20, 2017 at 4:08 PM

Imagine you’re 10 years old and you open a book to see your name and your own writing in print. That’s an experience that many of the 3,500 children who have passed through Big Class, a literacy and writing program, have had.

Now, Big Class wants to double the size of its program, create a new brick-and-mortar New Orleans’ Writers Center in the 7th Ward and morph into a chapter of 826 National, a network of organizations founded by author Dave Eggers and educator Ninive Calegari.

Read more:
http://www.nola.com/society/index.ssf/2017/05/big_class_benefit_draws_ncis_n.html