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[NIFL-PLI] Announcement

Kim Chaney

kchaney at utk.edu
Mon Dec 20 17:47:04 EST 2004




>The following announcement is from Diane Gardner, with the EFF Center:

>

>"We are pleased to announce that the EFF Center received an award from the

>UPS Foundation's Leadership for Community Literacy Initiative. The goal

>of this grant-making initiative is to ' help organizations meet demands

>for literacy services through enhancements in leadership capacity and

>organizational strength.'

>

>This work is to be guided by the EFF Program Quality Model. During a

>parallel, four-phase intensive course of study, planning and

>implementation, the EFF Center and five local literacy agencies will be

>engaged in program improvement processes for leadership enhancement and

>capacity building to accomplish specific goals. The EFF Handbook for

>Program Improvement will be the model used by the local partners, which

>are the Urban Leagues of Hudson County (NJ) and Columbus, Ohio; READ

>Chattanooga in Tennessee; Union City Adult Learning Center (NJ); and the

>Bradley County Adult Education Program in Cleveland, Tennessee. Each

>program will form a Program Improvement Team comprised of individuals from

>their respective volunteer boards or advisory groups, program

>administrators, teachers, other staff members, and adult learners.

>

>The EFF Center, while refining and testing the EFF model for program

>improvement and leadership development at the local level, will engage in

>its own program improvement process during this time with the purpose of

>strengthening its role as a national literacy leaders. The goals include

>establishing a volunteer advisory board, reviewing and revising the

>business plan, and developing a multi-phased marketing strategy."





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