Call for Nominations: 2007 Verizon Tech Savvy Awards

Nominations for the 2007 Verizon Tech Savvy Awards are now available.  
These are the first national awards honoring programs that improve  
parents’ and children’s understanding and use of technology. Four  
$5,000 regional awards and one $25,000 national award will be  
presented. The deadline for submissions is January 12, 2007.

The annual award will be given for the first time in March 2007 in  
Orlando, Florida, at the National Center for Family Literacy’s annual  
conference, the National Conference on Family Literacy.

The Verizon Tech Savvy Awards were established by the National Center  
for Family Literacy (NCFL), the Verizon Foundation, and the First  
Lady of Iowa Christie Vilsack, a Verizon Literacy Champion. The  
awards are designed to support programs that help parents bridge the  
widening gap between adults’ and children’s understanding of  
technology. The two generations must learn about technology together  
so parents can be effective teachers and advocates to ensure that  
their children are literate in technology and prepared for the 21st  
century workforce.

Successful programs should create innovative ways to employ  
technology as an important component in family literacy, and those  
methods should have the ability to be easily replicated at other  
sites across the country.

Organizations that are 501(c)(3) nonprofits, such as community-based  
organizations, libraries and schools, should apply. Religious or  
sectarian organizations may apply only if the program(s) offered  
serve a broad cross-section of the community.
Organizations should apply within one of the regions specified on the  
map provided in
the nomination kit.

For a copy of the 2007 Verizon Tech Savvy Awards nomination form or  
to send a notice about the awards to a colleague, visit  
www.famlit.org/techsavvyawards.

NCFL is the worldwide leader in family literacy, an intergenerational  
approach to help families escape poverty through education. More than  
1 million families have made positive educational and economic gains  
as a result of NCFL’s work, which includes training more than 150,000  
teachers and thousands of volunteers.

Gail J. Price
Multimedia Specialist
National Center for Family Literacy
325 West Main Street, Suite 300
Louisville, KY 40205

Phone: 502 584-1133, ext. 112
Fax: 502 584-0172


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