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By Mavis Scanlon
Twenty years is a long time to stick with anything these days, much less a corporate volunteer program. Yet that's exactly what Time Warner has done with Time to Read, its volunteer literacy and mentoring program. Judging by the program's 20th National Leadership Conference held last month in New York City, that commitment is stronger than ever.
Program coordinators from Time Warner corporate, Turner Broadcasting, Warner Bros., Time Inc. and about a dozen Time Warner Cable divisions, along with student volunteers and representatives from educational institutions and literacy programs around the country, descended on the New York Hilton for three days of workshops, educational sessions, author readings and all-around brainstorming.
"In the beginning we were warned that busy professionals would never respond," said Pat Fili-Krushel, Time Warner EVP, administration, in her welcoming remarks on the conference's second day. It's a good thing for the nearly 300,000 graduates of the program that the company didn't heed that warning.
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