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

The documents and other resources 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 will be updated periodically.  To suggest other items for this list, please email urbanallianceforadultliteracy@gmail.com . Special thanks to the Urban Alliance (formerly Urban CAFÉ) participants 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 meetings held in October, 2022, and January, February, March, and April 2023. For more information about these, also contact us at urbancafe2023@gmail.com .

Planning and Advocacy Documents by Urban CAFÉ 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 produced by NAULC and related organizations, and two organizations that succeeded NAULC: Literacy USA and Literacy Powerline.

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 Membership List 2012

Does Collective Impact Work?

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, see the drop-down menu under the Resources heading at the top of this page.

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