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The Literacy Coalition of Central Texas
Promoting Skilled Workers and Strong Families Through Literacy

"Let your children see you reading for pleasure in your spare time."  19 more tips to encourage children to read.

31% of Texas prisoners are functionally illiterate.
One in four adults living in Texas Reads below the fifth grade level, placing Texas last in state literacy.
40% of the U.S. workforce lacks essential job skills. Read more
$70 billion is spent in unnecessary medical bills each year due to low health literacy.

The more often you read to a child, the more likely they are to develop good literacy skills.

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55% of Texans have poor literacy skills
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
RFP--Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care.  Deadline May 18, 2006.



Dollar General Literacy Foundation
 
P.O. Box 1064 
Goodlettsville, TN  37072    
Funds programs/ projects that deal with all types of literacy.  Place your name on the RFP mailing list for future RFPs.

A Glimmer of Hope Foundation
4407 Bee Caves Rd. Suite 301  
Austin, TX  78746 
512-328-9944  
Grants are made to projects that meet the basic needs of youth including: safety and security, life, and job skills.

Kellogg Foundation 
Health, youth, education, social and economic community development.

Silverton Foundation 
1011 North Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX  78703 
512-472-6262 fax: 512-477-0025 
Health, education, social services and economic development.  Gives mainly in Central Texas and Australia.

Topfer Foundation
5000 Plaza on the Lake 
Austin, TX  78746 
512-329-0009 fax: 512-329-6462  
Child abuse prevention, youth support, job training, children's health, aging.

Lola Wright Foundation  
P.O. Box 1138 
Georgetown, TX 78627 
512-869-2574   
Literacy, Adult/Continuing education. Deadlines are Feb 28 & Aug 31.

Public education, early education, general and family literacy, workforce development

Hearst Foundation 
90 New Montgomery Street, Suite 1212 
San Francisco, CA  94105 
415-543-0400 fax: 415-348-0887  
Social services (including literacy), Higher education.  Some arts for youth programs funded.

Hitachi Foundation 
Workplace education, financial literacy.
Yearly funding for refugee education: ESL, job training, adult basic education.

UPS Foundation
Focuses on adult illiteracy.

Wells Fargo 
111 Congress Avenue, MAC T5215-020 
Austin, TX  78701 
512-344-7205 fax: 512-344-7291  
Community Development, Education, Human services

 

 
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