Working with Volunteers: 25 ideas for good practice
Working with Volunteers: 25 Ideas for Good Practice aims to provide a quick reference for things to know in order to make working with volunteers a positive experience for both your organization and the volunteer. It is written with the needs of literacy organizations and programs in British Columbia and their volunteers in mind.
Community Literacy Planning Guide: Working Together for Literacy
This guidebook explores how the community literacy plan, a reporting requirement for ongoing literacy funding, can be completed. But more importantly, this guide provides task groups and literacy outreach coordinators …
Literacy Now and District Literacy Initiatives: Connecting Loosely Coupled Formal and Informal Services
This review of the community literacy planning process found that “…the community literacy process has been very effective in supporting participants to increase collaboration, enhance coordination, form partnerships and work …
Its Own Reward: A Guide to Community-based Adult Literacy Volunteer Tutor Programs
This resource guide supports individuals and groups involved in community-based adult literacy tutor programs. It contains information about volunteer tutor programs, including tutor training and volunteer management. It is by …
Learning Without Borders: an Introduction to Community-based Adult Literacy in British Columbia
Learning Without Borders is an introduction to the complexities of the adult literacy field in BC. It surveys its history, explains some of the challenges, provides a glimpse of the …
Community Literacy Planning Guide
The Literacy Now Communities program involves community members developing a plan that addresses local literacy needs. This guide explains the program and presents a process for developing and implementing a …
Communicating about Literacy: Developing Your Communications Strategy
This guide lays out a step-by-step process for developing a communications strategy about literacy. It includes a hypothetical example of the steps in action. This is a companion document to …