Literacy is more essential now than ever to secure the well-being of individuals, families, workplaces and communities.

Join us November 12th at 10:30 am for the latest Thursday Morning Coffee Chat.

Refresh your knowledge and review the features of News for You Online. Ann Beeson, representative and consultant, will:

With greater distractions, clear communication is more important than ever. 

Wisconsin Literacy offers a virtual training series around plain language, with introductory prices. (Literacy members get a discount. See your RLC/RCC for more information.)

Learn more or register for upcoming trainings at: https://wisconsinliteracy.org/training/virtual-plain-language.html

Literacy Services of Wisconsin, in partnership with the YWCA of Southeast Wisconsin, is offering a virtual workshop series this fall that will focus on the foundational aspects of adult literacy education.

This series has been developed to support staff, volunteers, partners, and other friends of literacy in thinking more deeply about how they can actively facilitate and enhance their online and distance learning courses in a COVID-19 world.

Topics include:

You can sign up for individual courses with the button below.

Missed the fall conference webinars? You can still watch them on YouTube. Make sure to subscribe to Wisconsin Literacy to stay current with our webinars.

Congratulations to member agency Madison Reading Project for winning the 2020 Peoples Choice award in a Milwaukee-based virtual awards ceremony Oct. 13.

With COVID abruptly shutting down schools and libraries, Madison Reading Project partnered with school and community social workers to safely deliver a record-setting 40,000 free books to children and their families.

Madison Reading Project is excited to announce the first annual Community Book Drive that will be held across Dane County from November 15th - December 15th.

There are many ways individuals, groups and businesses can help us collect books and funds to ensure kids in our community have access to high-quality books at home.

We’re partnering with the Empty Stocking Club and other community organizations to give over 10,000 books to kids this holiday season.

Check out our Community Book Drive page for details.

Annamarie Carlson is leaving her position as Special Programs Coordinator at the International Institute of Wisconsin. She will be taking a position in the testing center at Milwaukee Area Technical College.

We wish her well but will miss her expertise and passion for literacy.

Are you looking for a new part-time opportunity? Do you like working collaboratively to achieve goals? The Portage County Literacy Council is hiring a co-director!

At the PCLC, they help adults in their community obtain the literacy skills necessary to achieve economic self-sufficiency and community integration. Their learners are their neighbors, coworkers, and friends, and at the center of everything they do.

If you believe that literacy is a human right and want to make an impact, check out the attached job description and apply by emailing your cover letter, resume, and three references to director@pocolit.org. The cover letter should comprehensively address your skills and experience as they relate to the job duties. The position will remain open until filled.

Madison College's Vice President of Equity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, Lucía Nuñez, will facilitate this discussion with Dr. Kendi, one of America's foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is the author bestselling book, How To Be An Antiracist.

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.

In an interview with Ibrim X. Kendi, “Education and Love Are Not the Answer,” in The Undefeated, he said that “the actual foundation of racism is not ignorance and hate, but self-interest, particularly economic and political and cultural.”

December 1 is Giving Tuesday!

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving that falls the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States.

Giving Tuesday is a great way to raise money for your agency or cause. Learn more at GivingTuesday.org.

Make the most of Giving Tuesday this year. Learn how recruiting and encouraging volunteers to connect with friends via Facebook can help you spread the word and raise more money.

This NEW Advocacy Toolkit from ProLiteracy describes how adult education and literacy (AEL) programs can use the latest skills data, program activity and success, and student impact stories to advocate with stakeholders at state and local levels, including:

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