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Fighting poverty with literacy and energy efficiency: Duncan McDougall

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Duncan McDougall is the founder of Waterbury Local Energy Action Partnership (LEAP) and founder and executive director of Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF). LEAP’s energy fair, held each April, has grown to be the largest in Vermont, drawing over 700 people, and thanks to a LEAP campaign, Waterbury, VT has quadrupled its number of solar installations. McDougall discusses his passion for clean energy and literacy. (April 3, broadcast)

Duncan McDougall, founder, Waterbury LEAP and Children’s Literacy Foundation

Changing lives a book at a time: Children’s Literacy Foundation

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Duncan McDougall quit his job as a globetrotting management consultant in order to help those in need. In 1998, he founded the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF). Today, CLiF has provided free and inspiring literacy programs and brand-new books to low-income, at-risk, and rural children up to age 12 in almost 85% of the communities in New Hampshire and Vermont. McDougall discusses how CLiF is fighting poverty in rural towns and prisons one book at a time. He is joined by several beneficiaries of CLiF’s work. (Dec. 7, 2016 broadcast)

Duncan McDougall, founder and executive director, Children’s Literacy Foundation

Jess Kell, Kids-A-Part program for incarcerated mothers, Lund Family Center

Jamie Kinnarney, principal, Williamstown Elementary School

Children’s Literacy Foundation; Soldiers returning from war, 11-27-13

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Duncan McDougall discusses the work of the Children’s Literacy Foundation in prisons and in rural communities in Vermont and New Hampshire. Author Ann Jones speaks about the plight of soldiers returning from war, which she writes about in her book, “They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars—The Untold Story.”