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News Release: Governor Announces $1.5 Million in Literacy Awards
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Monday, March 13, 2000
Governor
Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary
Linda Stewart
News Media Contact
Heidi Kafura
608/264-6811
e-mail: news@dwd.state.wi.us
fax: 608/266-1784

Contact: Tony Jewell (608) 267-7303

GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES $1.5 MILLION IN LITERACY AWARDS
Grants to help adult, children reading programs

MADISON--Gov. Tommy G. Thompson today announced that nearly $1.5 million in literacy grants have been awarded to 24 organizations throughout the state to provide top-quality literacy services through child tutoring and workplace initiatives.

Gov. Thompson said the workplace literacy grants will be used to train workplace tutors who can provide adult workers with literacy skills that are job specific for employment, retention and advancement.  The Child and Family Tutoring Program grant funding will help children eligible for TANF improve their reading, writing, and math skills, and it will also help provide parents with the skills to tutor their children.

"These grants will provide adults and children with intense literacy services that will help them achieve at home, at work and in their communities," Gov. Thompson said.  "The grants will help families overcome the challenges of reading and enable them to reach their fullest potential."

The grants will be used by local education and literacy organizations to help families achieve self-sufficiency. The grants, included in the 1999-2001 state budget, are funded by the federal government’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

Groups receiving money and grant amounts are:

   Child Tutoring
  		 Workplace Literacy
  
  • ADVOCAP Literacy Services, Green Lake 
$30,000  $80,000
  • Aurora Weier Educational Center, Milwaukee
$30,000    
  • Career Youth Development, Inc., Milwaukee
$30,000    
  • Centro De La Comunidad, Inc., Milwaukee
$30,000    
  • Fox Valley Literacy Coalition
   $80,000
  • Hope House of Milwaukee, Inc.
$30,000      
  • Jackson County Literacy Volunteers of America
$30,000  $80,000
  • Janesville Literacy Council, Inc.
$30,000    
  • Journey House, Milwaukee
$30,000    
  • Kenosha Literacy Council, Inc.
   $80,000
  • Learning Together Family Literacy, Inc., Holmen
$30,000    
  • Literacy Council of Brown County
$30,000  $80,000 
  • Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha, Inc.
$30,000  $80,000 
  • Literacy Council of Wood County
   $50,000 
  • Literacy Volunteers of America-Price County
$30,000  $80,000 
  • Marathon County Literacy Council, LVA
$30,000    
  • Milwaukee Achiever Program
   $80,000 
  • Neighborhood House of Milwaukee Ind./Indochinese Learn
   $80,000 
  • Opportunities Industrial Center of Greater Milwaukee
$30,000    
  • Racine Literacy Council
   $48,000 
  • Stateline Literacy Council –Beloit, Inc.
$30,000  $80,000 
  • The Literacy Council of Sheboygan County
   $80,000 
  • Winnebago County Literacy Council
$30,000    
  • YWCA of Greater Milwaukee 
$30,000    

  
Last month, Gov. Thompson announced that nearly $1.3 million in literacy grants were awarded to 28 organizations throughout the state to provide one-on-one tutoring and small group classes for adult welfare recipients to help improve reading, writing, math and English as a second language skills.

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