MGE and Dental Clients Successfully Attack a Major Source of Economic Destruction in the Battle Against Illiteracy and Poverty

St. Petersburg, FL (PRWEB) June 27, 2014

MGE Management Experts hosted a Benefit Dinner May, 30 at their headquarters in St. Petersburg, FL to raise funds for the Improving Youth Literacy Campaign in support of Boys and Girls Clubs and Youth Programs across America. Concerned Dental Clients from across the nation, government officials and community leaders gathered raising funds to provide books to hundreds of thousands of young people to tackle illiteracy and break the cycle of poverty.

Notables attending supporting literacy were: Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown, Jim Coats - former Pinellas County Sherriff and Board Member for the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Suncoast, Susan L. Valdes - Vice Chair and Board Member of Hillsborough County Public Schools, Kim Sharpe - practicing Business and Commercial law with Johnson Pope Law Offices and running for Sixth Circuit Court Judge, Group 16, Amy Ronshausen - Deputy Director of both the Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.), Lt. Col. Kirk Kumagai - U.S. Marine Corp (ret), Senior Marine Instructor of the Clearwater High School Marine Corp Junior Reserve Officers Training Corp, Reverend Alfreddie Johnson - Founder World Literacy Crusade and Imam Willmore Siddiq - Spiritual leader, educator, and leader of the program "Putting the Neighborhood back in the Hood"

At an MGE conference in March, leading dentists and their executive staff met to analyze and take action against one of their major business issues - hiring qualified staff in these times of extraordinarily high unemployment numbers. They isolated illiteracy of applicants as a common denominator to the problem.

According to the Family Scholarly Culture and Educational Success research, access to books is key to reading skills. Studies confirm that the number of books in the home directly predicts reading achievement.

One study found that in middle income neighborhoods, the ratio is 13 books per child; in low-income neighborhoods, the ratio is one book for every 300 children.* And, price is the #1 barrier to book ownership.

"Analysis of the most statistically accurate and comprehensive study of U.S. adult literacy ever conducted proves that 48.7 percent of U.S. adults are functionally illiterate, defined as being unable to hold an above-poverty-level-wage job. We believe illiteracy is a major source of economic destruction in this country and are determined to help fix the problem," said Luis Colón, CEO MGE Management Experts, Inc.

A highlight of the event was the entertainment provided by a phenomenal high-energy trio of brothers AKNU (A Kind Never Understood) who flew in from Los Angeles to help with the fund raising. With astonishing moves and incredible vocal talent, they performed original material and popular hits, putting the gathering in high spirits for the live auction. The group was featured on X Factor and has just released an EP independently on Amazon and iTunes titled "A Kind Never Understood".

The hundreds of thousands of books raised during the event are going directly into the hands of young people in need through the Boys and Girls Clubs and the Young Adults Library Services Association.

About MGE Management Experts

MGE Management Experts, Inc. has been in operation since 1997 and is located in St. Petersburg, FL. It is a BBB Accredited Business since 2011 with an A+ rating. CEO Luis Colón and his partner Dr. Greg Winteregg have led MGE in training tens of thousands of dentists on such subjects as management, case acceptance, marketing, communication, executive skills, financial planning and leadership. The training is based on the administrative technology of L. Ron Hubbard that is used in more than 100,000 companies and organizations across the globe to their benefit and prosperity. For more information call 727-530-4277 today or visit http://www.mgeonline.com.

Source: *Neuman, Susan B. and David K. Dickinson, ed. Handbook of Early Literacy Research, Volume 2. New York, NY: 2006 - http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/libraries-for-children-and-ya/publications/Genco.pdf

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