June 2006

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Community Literacy of Ontario

Our Voice

Strategic Planning

Community Literacy of Ontario is delighted to announce that we have received funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to work with our board of directors in year one (April 2006 to March 2007) to develop a strategic plan that will allow CLO to strengthen and increase its organizational capacity to serve its members.

In the second year of the grant (April 2007 to March 2008), CLO will deliver two regional workshops to literacy practitioners on strategic planning in addition to delivering two online training workshops on strategic planning on Centra. These workshops will help literacy organizations engage in strategic planning to build their own capacity.

CLO will also create a web-based, self-directed, online training module on strategic planning in literacy agencies. This training module would be housed on CLO's "Literacy Basics" online training website (www.nald.ca/literacybasics). This module will remain as a permanent, free and publicly accessible resource.

Project work is already well under-way. CLO held an open call for proposals for a consultant and Jane Barber was the successful candidate. In May 2006, the CLO board and staff held a two-day strategic planning retreat where we discussed current and future trends and issues for the literacy field and planned for CLO's role in the future. CLO will hold a follow-up meeting in October 2006 where our strategic plan will be further discussed and adopted.

In 2007, watch for more information on training opportunities and resources to support member programs with strategic planning.

The Ontario Trillium Foundation,
an agency of the Ministry of Culture,
receives annually $100 million of government funding generated through Ontario's charity casino initiative.