Please join the Division of Library and Information Services in paying tribute to Sandy Newell’s lifelong contributions to adult and family literacy throughout Florida.
If you would like to share a short story or anecdote with the online assembled group, please contact DLISINFO@dos.myflorida.com or 850.245.6603.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
https://valueusa.org/ Here are our four learning apps created by ESL and literacy programs.They are all free for a year if you download them before August 30th 2019. Please feel free to text Mary Quijano (our board member)(772)975-5294 with any questions about this app.
Congratulations to the Literacy Center, located in the public library in Quincy in Gadsden County. Mari Van Landingham, the literacy coordinator, wrote a literacy grant and was awarded a $500 grant by VALF to conduct two workshops, one in the private women's prison, and the other training volunteer tutors to tutor GED students at the community college
Thursday, February 28, 2019
The VALF grant deadline hs been moved to March 18 for the first draft and April 19 for the final application.
VALF (Volunteers for Adult Literacy in
Florida/Literacy Florida! Inc.)
Request for Applications
Important Dates:
March 18, 2019First
draft due (Applicants will get an
additional 20 points if you turn in a draft)
April 19, 2019Final
application due
The VALF (Volunteers for
Adult Literacy in Florida/Literacy Florida! Inc.), Board is pleased to announce
a request for applications for a grant for 2019. VALF is a statewide membership
association serving volunteers and volunteer literacy programs. VALF will award
one or more grants, not to exceed $500 in total awards.
Grants from VALF are intended
to assist small to mid-size volunteer literacy programs. Preference will be
given to programs serving from 10-200 adult learners and/or families (excluding
children). VALF will continue to focus the grant program/award on direct service(s)
to learners. To be eligible for consideration, submitting programs must
demonstrate that their proposal can be reproduced in other community-based
literacy programs.
For a fourth year VALF will
provide enhanced technical assistance for organizations that have questions
about eligibility requirements or completing the application. Applying will be
a two-step process. You will be given the opportunity to send a draft by March 18, 2019. A member of the
board will review the draft and contact the applicant to provide feedback. The final
application is due April 19, 2019.
Applicants who turn in the two applications will get an additional 20 points.
If you have questions about
the application, e-mail sandy.newell@dos.myflorida.com and place VALF Technical
Assistance in the subject line or call 850-245-6624.
Sandy will be hosting an online Library Literacy Grant Discussion on January 30, Wednesday, at 11 a.m. Eastern time. If you want to join the discussion, contact Sandy for the registration information.
To: Adult Volunteer Literacy Groups and Other
Interested Parties
We, the Board Members of Volunteers
for Adult Literacy in Florida (VALF) are aware of the situation at our southern
border, particularly the separation of children from their parents.
If we can be of any help during this
difficult time and in the future, please contact us; we will do anything we can
to help you, your community-based organization, and your learners. One of our
board members, Mary Quijano, has offered to answer any questions she possibly
can. Please feel free to contact her (quijano.mary@yahoo.com) with questions
you have related to this matter.
In this spirit of providing information,
here is a list of 2018 United States legislators and a link to contact Florida
legislators for you, your learners, and other interested parties.
Members of
Congress (Florida)
U.S. Senate
Rubio, Marco — (R — FL) 284
Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3041
The
'Find Your Representative' system will take your address supplied and deliver
your State House Member, State Senate Member, United States Congressional
Member and supply details on the United States Senate members.
Please
supply your street address and your city to locate your elected officials:
If
you are in the Military and stationed outside of Florida, please select
'Military Personnel' in the list of topics below and fill out the form with
your Florida address ...Washington, DC Office · Miami Office · Orlando Office · Tampa Office
In
addition to communicating with government officials’ office personnel, you can
also contact a local law library, your public library, Florida Rural Legal Services,
or community literacy programs for possible assistance. Finally, consider
telephoning the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) at the numbers listed
below. Their website is aclu.org.
ALCU of Florida: 850-429-9128 (located in Pensacola)
The mission of Volunteers for Adult Literacy in
Florida is to enhance and promote the abilities of individuals and
organizations to provide direct and indirect literacy instruction to adults and
families in need.
