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Monthly UpdateOctober 2009
PACTE remaining payment:The letters have been signed and you
shouldall have received the balance of your grant by mid-November
at the latest.LVQ received a $5,000 increase, bringing our annual
grant up to $80,000.
On-line annual members survey: Ten surveys were completed. Top 3
PDtopics members would like to have training in are: 1
studentretention/motivation 2 community partnerships and 3 staff
roundtable andsharing. To consult the survey results in their
entirety, visit the memberssection of the website.
Measuring Non-Academic Progress in Adult Literacy Learners: LVQ
hasreceived funding from MELS for a project to develop and/or
implement tools tomeasure non-academic progress in adult literacy
learners. The projectobjectives are twofold: i) to conduct a
literature review to see whats alreadyout there in the field and
ii) pilot up to five different tools with member groupsand adapt or
adopt one or more tools for use by member groups. Stay tunedfor
more information.
December 5/International Volunteers Day: To celebrate
InternationalVolunteer Day and to recognize the fundamental role
volunteers hold insociety, LVQ has asked for testimonials on What
does volunteering mean to
you? Submissions will be posted to the LVQ website, and may be
used todevelop PR or volunteer recognition materials. Encourage
your members tosubmit a testimonial; no testimonial is too short or
too long! Have them e-mail their testimonials to Joani at
[email protected] by Friday,
November 27. Radio documentary: Rotem Ravid, a graduate student
in Communications
at Concordia University, interviewed SUN students Bernice
Rosemarin and James Forde, and Karen Dotto, Program Coordinator at
LU, for a radiodocumentary she produced. Visit the LVQ website to
listen to this short butpowerful documentary.
Literacy video: Please let me know if you have not yet received
thereprinted dvd. Full members members can receive up to 20
additional copies.If you still have copies of the original dvd,
please send them back to me.
S.U.N. team: Members from the SUN team are now available for
publicspeaking. Visit the SUN team page on the LVQ website
athttp://literacyvolunteersqc.ca/student-unlimited-network.php to
learn more
about each student and request a speaker. A travel fund has been
set up todefray the cost of bringing a student to speak at your
council. To apply for atravel subsidy, send in a list of expected
travel costs and the Board willexamine your request.
Annual conference: Attendance was down at this years conference,
butthat did not stop people from enjoying the day! Participants
were treated toan interactive presentation by Dr. Ariel Fenster,
and learned a lot aboutcomposting, natural home care products,
recyclable art (is there a natural
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product that can remove paint from the carpet?), and how to
consumeresponsibly. Check out all the photos in the gallery on the
LVQ website.
Pre-conference: Prof. Lebel of UQAM discussed by-laws and Board
legalresponsibility before a crowd of 28 directors and staff. Then
the fun began -
about a dozen volunteers, staff and students visited the
Botanical Gardenswhere we viewed some amazingly creative decorated
pumpkins. Then it wason to the Chinese Garden and the Magic of
Lanterns display. This yearstheme was the Chinese astrological
signs. The silk lanterns are designed byexperts in Montreal and
produced in China. Visit the gallery on the LVQwebsite to view the
pumpkins and lanterns.
Support LVQ: Please support LVQ by mentioning us on your PR
materials, onyour website, by displaying the pamphlets and
postcards, etc. If you needmore postcards or pamphlets, please do
not hesitate to contact me or Vickyat [email protected].
AGM and next general members meeting/get-together: A very
fruitfuldiscussion surrounding HR issues was held on Monday,
September 28. Theupcoming professional development session in
January will address staff-board relationships and other human
resource issues such as contracts, jobdescriptions, work
conditions, etc. Also on the agenda is a presentation byLana
Faessler of Laubach Literacy Ontario about their social
enterpriseproject. Exact dates to be confirmed.
NALD story of the week: If you know of a student who would like
to seetheir story, or any other text, posted, contact Lorette
Melanson [email protected].
Congratulations to Octobers winner, Gerardo Bernal Vasquez, of
theYamaska Literacy Council! Read all the entries on the LVQ
website.
Novembers Monthly Challenge:LVQ Annual Conference OR The
EnvironmentDeadline: November 30
Do not hesitate to forward me any notices, student or tutor
submissions, orphotos you would like to see posted, as well as any
council resources. Thewebsite address is:
www.literacyvolunteersqc.ca. To access the private memberspage:
User ID is literacy, Password is quebec.
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Your studentcould win a $25gift certificate
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