Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gA5JZSX00185; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:35:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:35:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <14896390.1036506256@1234cumminjo> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: John Comings <comingjo@gse.harvard.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:610] Re: FOB RE: Sponsors and Sponsorship X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.1 (Win32) Status: O Content-Length: 1830 Lines: 47 This is very creative way to build sponsorship for your students and seems to me to be a very productive use of AmeriCorps/Vista funding. --On Thursday, October 31, 2002 3:13 PM -0500 Sarah Beaman-Jones <sbeaman@webster.edu> wrote: > Dear John Comings, > I think your concept of sponsorship is very apt and have an additional > example for you. > During the past four years LIFT has supported AmeriCorp Vistas in our > family literacy programs. These Vistas were selected by the directors of > the family literacy programs based on specific criteria. People who had > been in the family literacy program and had just achieved their GED. > These were ones the director thought would benefit from additional > education, but who did not have sufficient funds or a support system to > attend college. The education grant of $4,725 for sucessful completion > of a year's service plus the additional year to develop support systems > made all the difference. The unexpected benefit was that the students in > the family literacy program had a role model and, as you have described, > a sponsor. The Vistas were living proof that success was posible. Whats > more, they were not taken in by excuses the students made for missing > school. In some programs the Vistas are now part of the staff and > continue to sponsor students. > > Family Literacy Specialist > LIFT-Missoui > 500 Northwest Plaza, suite 601 > St. Ann, MO 63074 > > 314-291-4443 ext. 206 > 800-729-4443 > 314-291-7385 [fax] > sbeaman@webster.edu > lift-missouri.org > > John Comings, Director NCSALL -- Nichols House Harvard Graduate School of Education (617) 496-0516, voice 7 Appian Way (617) 335-9839, cell Cambridge MA 02138 (617) 495-4811, fax john_comings@harvard.edu http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu
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