** CONGRATULATIONS & Announcement**
Connect-(Net)Working:
Women, Literacy, and Community through
Interactive Technologies
Mev Miller, Ed.D., Founder and Director of WE LEARN, has been awarded a 2010 Fellowship by The Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence at the Rhode Island Foundation. The fellowship provides nonprofit executive directors a supportive year-long "research and development" program to serve as an incubator to consider innovative ideas for delivering program or services consistent with the organization’s core mission.
Over the next year, Dr. Mev Miller will research constituency needs as well as educational and technological resources in order to develop a “Connect-(Net)Working” Plan. This plan will address the ways in which WE LEARN can most effectively use the creative and interactive benefits of web-based and communications technologies to support and advance WE LEARN’s mission. Concerns include:
- Gender-based digital divide;
- Women’s learning styles as related to media technology;
- Accessibility for women with low-literacy;
- Multi-faceted needs of our constituents (students, teachers, researchers, activists);
- Web-based tools to support community-building and participatory values for social justice education; and
- Enhanced interactive clearinghouse of women-centered literacy resources.
We expect this plan to build and broaden our community of learners, teachers, and community supporters, develop peer-to-peer networking, and support greater interaction among our members across geographic distances as well as educational and cultural differences.
We will soon be posting an Internet Survey to gather input from our consitutents. If you are interested in more details about this project, or would like to get involved, please contact:
Mev Miller
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WE LEARN believes in the leadership of women in literacy programs. We make it possible for their creativity and passion to blossom.
WE LEARN’s work and mission continues to inspire encouragement, voice, and possibility for women, and for women’s issues in adult basic education & literacy.
We focus on education, specifically the basic knowledge women need to gain access to systems of power and to achieve personal and community empowerment. In this way, we join others in building a just society and healthy communities.
Please show your support for WE LEARN’s efforts to assist women as they become more confident, capable and prepared to accomplish their goals.
Your financial support will help us to continue to develop the good ideas of our constituents into ongoing and meaningful projects for women’s literacy and basic education.
Thank you,
Mev Miller, Ed.D., (Director) and the WE LEARN Board of Directors
November 2009 Full Appeal Letter
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