Announcements
Thank you!
Thank you to the many participants and partners that made the 2010 National Community Literacy Conference so wonderful. This year, our fourth, was the largest and most diversified audience yet.
Together we are changing the future of our communities! Thank you!
Declaration for the Right to Literacy
See the new video on The Right to Literacy here.
The Silent Crisis? Click here.
These wonderful videos were made in support of 1,000,000 for Literacy.
We encourage everyone to join the 1,000,000 for Literacy: Shatter the Silence facebook site before we take the Declaration for the Right to Literacy to President Obama in September. Read more
Coalition of the Month
“Reimagining Intergenerational Illiteracy”
LITERACY BALTIMORE: Reimagining Intergenerational Illiteracy
“Adult literacy providers must collaborate with a broad cross-section of partners to stop the intergenerational impact of illiteracy” – Shirley Bigley LaMotte, Baltimore Reads, Inc.
Earlier this year, three well-established Baltimore institutions – Baltimore Reads, Inc., Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the Dyslexia Tutoring Program – decided to affirm and model the value of collaboration, forming Literacy Baltimore as a “big tent” under which literacy advocacy and services can be delivered.
“Students in adult literacy programs often can access a range of other services provided by government and not-for-profits. But these service providers often are competitors for dwindling philanthropic gifts and restrictive government funding. Read more