Mural in downtown New London Connecticut featured as a stop in the “New London Mural Walk”. Photo by Paul Jurmo.

The archived documents and other resources linked below, and on the three following pages -- See Resources drop-down menu above for those pages -- may be of interest to urban adult foundational education collaborations.  They are updated periodically.  To suggest other items for this list, please email urbanallianceforadultliteracy@gmail.com . Special thanks to the Urban Alliance participants, the Mayor's Office of Adult Literacy in Houston, TX and to the Open Door Collective, a national project of Literacy Minnesota, for providing many of the resources cited below.

Also, notes are available from Urban CAFÉ (the former name of the Urban Alliance for Adult Literacy) meetings held in October, 2022, and January, February, March, and April 2023. For more information about these, also contact us at urbanallianceforadultliteracy@gmail.com .

Planning and Advocacy Documents by Urban Alliance Collaborations and Related Groups

Cleveland, OH: White Papers from the Cleveland Literacy Cooperative

•  https://literacycooperative.org/publications/white-papers/

Houston, TX:  “Houston’s Adult Literacy Blueprint” (Mayor’s Office for Adult Literacy, 2021):

•  https://www.houstontx.gov/adultliteracyblueprint/HoustonsAdultLiteracyBlueprint.pdf

 New York City, NY: Advocacy Efforts of the Literacy Assistance Center

•  https://www.lacnyc.org/advocacy.html

Union County, NJ: “Building a Workforce Learning System for Union County” (Adult Literacy and Education Committee, Union County, NJ, Workforce Investment Board, 2007):

•   https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/4b259097-f77f-4c70-813c-4cff11dc6161/downloads/WIB%20White%20Paper%203-08.pdf?ver=1679972786594

Resources from the National Alliance of Urban Literacy Coalitions (NAULC) and Related Organizations

Below are links to several documents in no particular order that were produced by NAULC, ProLiteracy and related organizations, as well as two organizations that succeeded NAULC: Literacy USA and Literacy Powerline. As these organizations no longer exist proper citations for these are not available.

• National Institute for Literacy Community Literacy Initiative Evaluation of Community Literacy Coalition Data Tracking Pilots

• Literacy Powerline and ProLiteracy Community Literacy Workshop Series Resource Kit

• West Literacy Coalition Summit

• Literacy USA Overview

• Literacy USA Planning

• Literacy USA Board and Members

• Literacy USA Governance 2004

• Literacy USA 2004 Budget

• NAULC Community Literacy Workshop Documents

• NAULC Membership List 2012

• Does Collective Impact Work? (This is a preview of a much longer proprietary document)

• From Read Ahead to Literacy Coalition:  The Leadership Role of the Central New York Community Foundation in the Creation of a Local Institution”  

For more Resources pages on this website, see the drop-down menu under the Resources heading at the top of this page.

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