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March 2003
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Community Literacy
of Ontario
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In January 2003,
Community Literacy of Ontario sent out a “Survey of Ontario’s
Community Literacy Agencies” to all Anglophone community literacy agencies
in the province. CLO developed this survey in order to gain a current picture
of the successes and challenges faced by community literacy agencies. In
addition to program information, agencies were also asked to share information
on various human resource issues.
All individual
information collected in this survey is completely confidential. The data in
this survey covers the period of April 1, 2001 - March 31, 2002. All
percentages have been rounded and may not equal 100%.
There are 100 Anglophone
MTCU-funded Anglophone community literacy agencies in Ontario. We want to
express our most sincere thanks to the 63 agencies who took the time to respond
to this important survey! |
Program
Information
- Total community literacy
agencies responding to this survey = 63
- 89% of agencies are
independently incorporated, self-governing, non-profit organizations
- 11% are governed by a
multi-service agency
- 43% of agencies indicated that
they were Laubach-affiliated
Geographic
region
- Central = 27% of agencies
- East = 19% of
agencies
- Northeast = 21% of
agencies
- Northwest = 11% of agencies
- Southwest = 22% of agencies
Community Size
- Rural = 38% of
agencies
- Mixed = 29% of agencies
- Small urban = 19% of agencies
- Large urban = 14% of agencies
Learners
- In 62 agencies, a total of
6,571 learners were served (for an average of 106 learners per agency)
- Out of 60 agencies responding,
an average of 31% of learners had independence as their major goal
Staffing Levels
- Total staff members = 271
people (for an average of 4.3 people per agency)
- Total full-time equivalents =
149 people (for an average of 2.4 people per agency)
- Agencies responding = 63
Volunteers
- Total number of volunteers =
3,281 (for an average of 52 volunteers per agency)
- Total volunteer hours =
219,439 (for an average of 3,483 volunteer hours per agency)
- Agencies responding = 63
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