A $100,000 appropriation for fiscal year 1986 directed the Washington State Board for Community College Education and the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a pilot program for coordinating the efforts of volunteer literacy tutors. The 12 projects funded by the program recruited and trained 1,473 volunteer tutors and provided literacy services to 2,174 clients at an average cost of $46 per client. Project funds supported part-time tutor coordinators who trained the volunteers and matched them with clients. Statistics gathered on the tutoring clients revealed the following: (1) the average age of the clients was 33 years; (2) 51% were married and most had family responsibilities; (3) 37% were employed, and only 4% were receiving job training; (4) 45.2% had received their prior schooling in Washington; (5) 36.5% were immigrants or refugees; and (6) four-fifths of the clients had reading ability at or below the sixth-grade level when entering the program, and 4% read at above the eighth-grade level. Evidence from one sponsored literacy project indicated that as few as 50 hours of tutoring could produce an average gain in reading ability of approximately one grade level. Other outcomes of the program included creating a greater awareness of literacy problems in local communities and developing cooperative relationships among literacy service providers in those areas. Funding information, quotes regarding the projects and the illiteracy problems in Washington, and the authorizing legislation for the project appropriations are appended. (UCM)