On Jun 26, 2007, at 12:05 AM, David J. Rosen wrote:


> Community Literacy Discussion Colleagues,

>

> Welcome to those who have joined the discussion after it began. The  

> message below tells you where you can see the archived messages so  

> you can quickly catch up.

>

> Our question for Tuesday is:  How are Community Literacy Coalitions  

> Developed and Sustained?


D.C. LEARNs was created over ten years ago in response to drastic  
budget cuts made to adult literacy in the District at that time. A  
crisis is a great way to bring people together, although surely not  
the most desirable method. Nonetheless, myy guess is that we are not  
the only coalition that came together in this way.

The trick for a coalition formed in this way is to figure out how to  
keep going after the crisis is over. I think D.C. LEARNs suffered for  
a period because they had not really defined a role for the coalition  
post-crisis. About two years ago, after I had come on board, our  
board and our coalition members developed a new strategic plan that  
has been essential tool in defining who we are to the community and  
in keeping us focused. For those who are interested, you can take a  
look at it here:

<http://www.dclearns.org/documents/spfinal.pdf>


> 1) Mac users, if you had trouble downloading or viewing the  

> presentations from the National Institute for Literacy Community  

> Literacy Summit, try using a browser other than Safari, for example  

> Firefox or Internet Explorer.

> http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/community/communityliteracy.html


Or, using Safari, you can control-click the link and select "Save  
Linked File As..." to download the file and then open it in  
PowerPoint (Safari will want to append ".txt" to the file. Make sure  
that the file name ends in ".pps" or the Mac won't recognize it as a  
PowerPoint file.) In any case, whether you use Safari or Firefox,  
you'll need PowerPoint to open the files.

Jeff

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Jeff Carter
Executive Director

DC LEARNs
1612 K Street, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006

www.dclearns.org
jcarter at dclearns.org
202-331-0141 ext. 22
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