[NLA] Discussion: Faith-based Organizations

[DSKostrub@aol.com]

On the faith-based discussion, I wanted to mention that the Volunteers and 
Literacy Task Force Committee funded by the Florida Department of Education, 
Division of Workforce Development, is coordinating an interesting symposium 
on May 15.  The topic is "Linking Literacy and Faith-Based Organizations."  
The site is the Sheraton World Resort in Orlando.  John Porter, Acting 
Director for the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives of the 
USDOE, will be the keynote speaker.  Skip Long, Exec. Director of the 
National Jobs Partnership, will also speak.  We have faith-based 
leaders(national and state) talking about the commitment of their 
organizations to literacy.  We have local literacy practitioners talking 
about how their faith-based literacy programs were initiated including the 
basics of funding, partnerships and collaboration.  We have had a great 
response.  A Workforce Development Board is chartering a bus from South 
Florida to take local faith leaders and literacy providers to to the event.  
We have a number of anticipated outcomes but basically hope that as a result 
of the day literacy providers and faith-based organizations will see many 
ways they can partner together to serve adults in great need of literacy 
services.

Darlene Kostrub, Executive Director
Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition
551 SE 8th St., Suite 505
Delray Beach, FL 33483
561-279-9103
Fax 561-265-3579
http://community.gopbi.com/literacy
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