[NLA] Help For Adult Literacy Outside NIFL

[Thomas Sticht]

NLA Colleagues:						August 1, 2002

Help For Adult Literacy Outside NIFL

Recently, representatives of a large private charitable foundation
contacted me and set up a meeting for us to get together. The purpose of
the meeting was to ask me to spend some time advising the foundation on
how it might most usefully put $100 million over a five year period ($20
million per year) into work on young adult (16-24 years if age) literacy
education. A lot of the foundation’s interest is in helping low English
proficient (LEP) learners.  Ideally, the work would help the young adults
develop their language and literacy abilities while also producing useful
new knowledge for the field of adult education.

Given the relatively low investments presently being made in this type of
work, I have been impressed that a private foundation would be interested
in it. I’m wondering what kinds of strategic ideas members of the NLA list
might have for this type of activity. Should it complement and/or extend
NCSALL, NIFL, and OVAE/DAEL work, and if so, how, or are there new
directions that should be taken?

I thought it might be of interest to list members to conduct a bit of a
discussion about this activity on the list. Alternatively, you can contact
me off the list at tsticht at aznet.net with your comments.

Thanks,
Tom Sticht



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