Thursday, October 21, 2010

The Illinois Literacy Foundation

The Illinois Literacy Foundation is an organization that allows assistance to be made available to those individuals who are seeking assistance in improving their literary skills, or just simply to perfect their interviewing skills or testing scores.
The Illinois Literacy Foundation is fully devoted to better educating the state of Illinois.  The various techniques as well as the mission statement and a brief history of The Illinois Literacy Foundation are listed below.  An overall assessment of the foundation, as well as some interesting facts are listed in addition to the history and mission statement.
The Illinois Literacy Foundation is a not-for-profit Foundation created in 1992 by the Office of the Secretary of State in accordance with Section 10 of the State Agency Entity Creation Act. This current Board was appointed in 1999 by the Secretary of State and is comprised of 11 members. The purposes of the Foundation are to promote literacy among the residents of the State of Illinois by supporting literacy catalogs and attractive statewide learning awareness; to make grants and gifts in aid and support of the goal; and to engage generally in other lawful endeavors reliable with the foregoing purposes. These purposes are reflected in its mission statement. Funds composed by the Foundation shall be considered private funds and shall be held in a suitable account outside of the State Treasury. Bi-annual audits are completed by the Office of the Auditor General of the State of Illinois and reported to the Illinois Legislative Audit Commission, the Governor and members of the General Assembly. In 2002, The Foundation Board and DePaul University co-sponsored a statewide Literacy Symposium. In adding, the Board has partnered with BORDERS Super Store annually to promote the Annual Literacy Donation Program, which benefits local literacy programs.
This program is only benefiting the success of the state of Illinois.  Most every state has a literacy network in which benefits the educational success of each state standards, however, the degree of quality is quite different from state to state.
For more information on The Illinois Literacy Foundation, or to find out more information on how to volunteer, please visit the following website below:


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