We gratefully acknowledge project funding from the National Literacy Secretariat, Human Resources Development Canada.

We are also grateful for the core funding provided to our literacy programs by Alberta Advanced Education and Career Development.

Each of the coordinators involved in the project wish to thank the students, tutors and board or advisory committee members of their respective organizations. Thank you to
participants from Prospects Literacy Association, Edmonton, Project Read, Claresholm PAL Project, Stony Plain and Write Soon Literacy Project, Whitecourt.

In the Prospects' program, sincere thanks go to Margaret Reine who devoted considerable time to organizing and implementing the Progress Profile too/ for a large number of pairs; thanks also to Marg and to Susan Devins for their work in organizing the group process for the Program Evaluation kit and for their help in analyzing the data.

In the Project Read program thanks go to Pat Anderson who spent many hours of volunteer time photocopying and mailing questionnaires as we// as compiling the data.

In the Whitecourt program thanks a/so go to Bonnie Walter and her program members in Fort Assiniboine who participated in Whitecourt's evaluation project.