Welcome to our website!

We're happy you chose to visit us and learn more about our growing foundation. It honors a remarkable woman, Louise Tumarkin Zazove. For the story of her life, click on the History button above. Our mission and vision, set forth just below, affirm our resolution to help deaf and hard-of-hearing people realize their full capacities to grow and learn and be able to participate fully in the modern world.

Browse through our web pages. And please contact us at earl@ltzfoundation.org if you have any comments or questions--or suggestions as to how we can make our web site more informative or helpful. We'd like to hear from you.

OUR MISSION: to provide scholarships and related assistance to people with hearing loss so they can compete successfully in our hearing society.

OUR VISION: A world in which Americans with hearing loss have the same opportunity for success and quality of life as those with normal hearing.

OUR THREE YEAR GOALS (2006 THROUGH 2008):

Why is such a foundation needed?

People with hearing loss, regardless of its degree, tend to get less schooling. As a result, even when they complete high school, they read, on average, only at middle school level. Therefore their socioeconomic future is likely to be relatively low. Our foundation, by providing scholarships and other assistance, is designed to change that situation--to help them beat the odds.

Whether scholarship recipients prefer spoken English or American Sign Language, the Foundation's aim is to help them get the education they need to make their way more effectively in a hearing world. With a college or postgraduate degree, they will qualify for higher paying jobs, have more rewarding careers, and enjoy a better quality of life. Furthermore, they'll be more productive in our society.

What have we accomplished?

Since we began operations early in 2003, we've granted scholarships to ten students, each at a different college. And we now have grantees who have completed college and are using their advanced education
to establish more promising careers. All had done well in high school. They had been active in sports and numerous other extracurricular activities, had volunteered in many ways both in and out of school, were recognized as excellent college material by their teachers and were eager to continue their education. Their major problem was limited financial resources.

Our grants have helped them advance their education at the college level. And as the Foundation becomes more widely known, we look forward to helping other qualified students get the higher education they need--for their benefit and society's.

How can you benefit personally from what we're doing?

1. Because the Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation meets the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)3, you can deduct contributions to it from your federal income tax, which means you get to decide how that portion will be used (instead of Uncle Sam deciding).
2. A contribution to the Foundation will give you the opportunity--and the satisfaction--of knowing you have helped change someone's life for the better permanently, as well as improve the lives of their present and future families. Your gift has the power to enrich lives for generations to come.
3. A better-educated adult can contribute more to our society--which means we all benefit.