Our Annual General Meeting for 2023

We held our Annual General Meeting recently. We'd like to thank the Riverside Branch of the Windsor Public Library for hosting us.

Among the more officious pieces of a meeting of this nature, we had the opportunity to speak with Kristin Raymond, Coordinator of the Book Buddy Program and Michael Regier, Coordinator of the Adult Literacy Program about their work, and we heard from Big Brothers Big Sisters Windsor-Essex and Bob Cameron from the Downtown Windsor Community Collaborative about some ideas we are eager to support. We look very forward to new partnerships and new ways to support literacy!

Supporting the Windsor Scottish Rite Learning Centre

We we thrilled recently to be able to support the Windsor Scottish Rite Learning Centre's programming and operations with our financial support.

L -> R Christine Stanley - Centre Director, Jim Laughton - Treasurer, Don Warner - Fundraising Chairman, Board of Governors, Murray Delmege - Board Chairman, Mary-Jo Solarik - President, Windsor Volunteers for Literacy Foundation, John Revell - Board Member

You can find out more about this wonderful organization and their work here: http://wldc.ca/

Visiting the Unemployed Help Centre

Melody Nowack, Literacy & Pre-Apprenticeship Supervisor at the Unemployed Help Centre of Windsor, receives a cheque for $4,000 from Linda and Mary-Jo to support the Literacy and Basic Skills and the GED Preparation Programs. Support provided is goals oriented and geared to individual needs with group instruction offered when possible. The program is intended to assist participants in pursuing work opportunities.

Supporting Connections Early Years Family Centre

Eva Tsakalis, Talk 2 Me program manager, receives a cheque from Linda and Mary-Jo in support of the purchase of mentor texts for the Talk 2 Me Preschool Speech and Language Program. 

Read more on the Connections Early Years Family Centre Facebook Page

Annual General Meeting

 

The October 5 Annual General Meeting of the Windsor Volunteers for Literacy Foundation was held with Board members keeping a safe distance. 

 

Supporting Connections Early Years Family Centre

Barb Brown, Executive Director, Connections Early Years Family Centre (right), showing Linda one of the literacy packages they have been preparing and which will now be distributed to a broader range of recipients.

Supporting our local community during the COVID-19 crisis

April 2020, supporting our local community during the COVID-19 crisis.

Street Help

Unemployed Help Centre