Posts Tagged ‘Community Literacy’
Education Continues at Erie House as ESL and Community Literacy Hold Online Classes and Tutoring
In our English as a Second Language (ESL), Adult Basic Education (ABE), and Community Literacy classes, students gain the skills they need to thrive in the classroom, in the workplace and in the community. These classes also help prepare our participants for naturalization exams and interviews on their paths to U.S. citizenship. Even though Erie…
Read MoreNuestro Retrato (Our Portrait)
This event celebrates the accomplishments of adult learners and highlights the organizations that support them — The Consejo Hispano de Alfabetizacion, or the Hispanic Literacy Council (made up of Centro Romero, Corazón a Corazón, Erie Neighborhood House, Family Start Learning Center (FAST/UIC), Instituto Progreso Latino, Poder, Enlace Chicago, St. Joseph Services, Universidad Popular, Citywide Chicago,…
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Erie House Receives $10,000 Grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to Support Adult Literacy
This week, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded Erie Neighborhood House a $10,000 grant to support adult literacy. This local grant award is part of more than $8.3 million in grants awarded to approximately 1,000 nonprofit organizations, libraries and schools across the 44 states that Dollar General serves. “The grant we received from the Dollar…
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Erie House Receives $75,000 Grant to Support Literacy Initiatives
The Illinois Secretary of State/Illinois State Library Literacy Office awarded a $75,000 Adult Volunteer Literacy Grant to Erie Neighborhood House. The grant will support the agency’s Community Literacy program, a volunteer-driven initiative that pairs adult learners with tutors in one-on-one and small group settings to develop language and literacy skills. “Our main goal is to…
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