The Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL)
is a national coalition of the provincial and territorial literacy coalitions, providing a national forum for exchange, collaboration, support and promotion of English literacy issues in Canada. www.literacy.ca

Laubach Literacy of Canada
links Laubach-based literacy groups across the country, and provides resources, support and training for their volunteer tutors. www.laubach.ca

La Fédération canadienne pour l’alphabétisation en français (FCAF)
fulfills a similar role to MCL’s for Francophone literacy interests across the country. www.franco.ca/alpha

Frontier College
also supports a network of committed volunteer tutors, delivering informal literacy training in workplaces, community agencies and remote communities across the country. www.frontiercollege.ca

ABC CANADA
is a foundation of business and labour that supports literacy by raising public awareness and funds to support local literacy groups. By engaging the support of corporate Canada, they have made possible a number of promotional initiatives such as the “look under Learn in the yellow pages” campaign, the Peter Gzowski golf tournaments and the Canada Post commemorative literacy stamp. ABC CANADA has also carried out national research on literacy issues. www.abc-canada.org

Canada is also fortunate to have a comprehensive electronic clearinghouse of literacy resources.

The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD)
provides all literacy organizations with technical support, online materials, website development, discussion systems and a virtual library. www.nald.ca

Another national literacy organization is still in the development stages.The National Aboriginal Design Committee is creating a national organization to advance and support aboriginal literacy.