Contents


1. How Did We Get Into This Anyway? ...........................................4
Community-Based Literacy in Alberta ..............................................4
The Prospects Program ...................................................................5
Why We Did the Project .................................................................6
What is 50/50 Management? ...........................................................6
How is the Concept Useful? ............................................................7
Implications for Funding ..................................................................7
The Limitations of Our Study ...........................................................8

2. What Did We Do? .........................................................................9
The Advisory Committee .................................................................9
Collecting Data ................................................................................9
Tracking Time ................................................................................10
Comparing Year-End Participation Summaries ...............................13
The Board of Directors ..................................................................14

3. What Did We Find? .....................................................................15
Where We Spent Our Time ...........................................................15
Comparison of Year-End Statistics ................................................20
50/50 and the Board of Directors ..................................................25

4. What Does It Mean? ..................................................................28
Time Tracking ..............................................................................28
Participation Summaries ...............................................................30
Working with a Board of Directors ...............................................32

5. How Does 50/50 Apply To Funding? .........................................35
Applying the 50/50 Concept to Funding ........................................35
The Four Basic Funding Packages ................................................36
Estimated Costs for Each of the Funding Packages .......................37

6. Providing Support: Beyond Statistics .........................................39
John Drops Out ...........................................................................39
Jan Tries Again ............................................................................40
Sarah Demands a Better Experience .............................................41
Dora Doubles Her Duties .............................................................42
Ron and Angela Make a Commitment ..........................................43

7. A Final Word ..............................................................................45

8. Appendix A ................................................................................47

9. Appendix B ................................................................................51

10. Bibliography .............................................................................53


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