[NIFL-FAMILY:3293] Grants for Services, Projects or Research

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Recently, the NIFL sponsored list moderators had a meeting in Washington DC,
and we discussed ways to increase usage of the NIFL-Lincs....the "be all end
all of adult education resources."  Folks, there is SOOOO much information
and SOOOOO many resources on the LINCS website, it is difficult to describe
it all.  So, for the next few days, I will be posting messages about some of
the services you will find on the NIFL LINCS site.  Thanks to David Rosen, I
am simply cross-posting some of his messages to the NLA List on to this
list.  Enjoy....Lots of great sites for family literacy $$ also!  See below.
Nancy Sledd, NIFL-Family list moderator
Training Specialist
National Center for Family Literacy
325 West Main Street, Suite #200
Waterfront Plaza
Louisville, KY  40202-4251
(502) 584-1133 ext.142
(502) 584-0172 fax

The NIFL LINCS now has a comprehensive database of grant and other funding
sources which adult literacy programs might pursue.  Hundreds of sources
are listed in an easily-searched database.

click the  *Grants and Funding* button on the leftsidebar at
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/

Then click the *refine search* button and choose what you're looking for.

For example, I heard that the Spencer Foundation had funded at least one
doctoral dissertation related to adult literacy in 2000, so I typed in
*spencer* and learned from their 2000 annual report that there were 35
dissertation fellows.  At least one, my esteemed adult literacy
colleague Lorna Rivera, was listed. So here's a good example of one
person who has opened a foundation door -- or widened it -- for adult
literacy funding.  Using the NIFL LINCS grants search, maybe others can
open some doors, or maybe we'll have a crowd of literacy folks flowing
through to sit at the big table!

Lorna's dissertation is entitled _Learning Community: An Ethnographic
Study of Popular Education and Homeless Women in a Shelter-Based Adult
Literacy Program_.  Sociology Department, Northeastern University.

The Spencer Foundation will be found at 875 North Michigan Avenue, Suite
3930, Chicago, IL 60611-1803. http://www.spencer.org/

David J. Rosen
NLA List Moderator



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