What's happening – July 2005

At Literacy BC we use a variety of methods for disseminating news and information to the field. Yet, still more information passes through our office that we would like to pass along. To that end, we have a service called What's Happening in Literacy. What's Happening is a compilation of abbreviated information about new projects, upcoming conferences, funding opportunities, teaching resources, general news, and much more.

	FINANCING, FUNDING RESOURCES AND APPLICATIONS
	RESEARCH
	EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
	RESOURCES
	THE WORLD OF BOOKS AND LIBRARIES

FINANCING, FUNDING RESOURCES AND APPLICATIONS

• The Canadian Council on Learning has launched a Request for Proposals to provide state of the field reviews in the areas of early childhood education, elementary and secondary school learning, post-secondary learning, adult learning, work and learning, and health and learning. The deadline is August 1^st.
  Visit http://www.ccl-cca.ca/english/news/state.asp for more information.

• Social Development Canada (SDC) has launched a Request for Letters of Intent to express interest for funding that will support national learning on pre-established, innovative approaches to community-driven collaborations to reduce poverty and improve social well-being. The deadline is July 29^th. For details check out:
  http://www.sdc.gc.ca/en/hip/sd/SDPPcfp2005/rfli.shtml.

• Although it's not exactly “funding”, the United Way is accepting applications for their “Day of Caring” in which teams of volunteers from companies or organizations in the Lower Mainland are paired with a nonprofit organization to complete one day projects. Deadline is July 30^th! Details and the application information are here:
  http://www.uwlm.ca/What+We+Do/Programs+and+Initiatives/
  Day+of+Caring/default.htm

CONTENTS

RESEARCH

• At the 4th Annual Network meeting of the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network in Toronto, Yves Clermont of Statistics Canada highlighted results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) regarding youth aged 16-25. The results point to policy and practice in Canada making a difference in literacy scores. He also notes that “the evidence shows how it is possible to reduce the disadvantages in skills typically associated with low levels of parental education and to improve the skills of an entire population.” NALD has more details here: http://www.nald.ca/WHATNEW/hnews/2005/rates.htm.