Please call (860-355-0830) or e-mail (info@lvg-ct.org) if you can help with the following:
Would you love to plan a party? Casey Pascal and Jose De Aguiar are planning a student-tutor gathering in the fall. If you can help with organization, set-up, clean-up, etc., we need you.
Do you have experience using Microsoft Publisher? Jacqui needs your help with the lay-out of LVG’s newsletter and annual report. You will be provided with the copy.
We will finally be able to easily track down our students and tutors! With 74 active tutors teaching 140 students; and classes occurring seven days a week, mornings, afternoons, and evenings in locations from Danbury to Salisbury, a database had become essential.
Through a grant from the Connecticut Community Foundation, we were able to obtain a database especially designed for a literacy volunteers organization. It will include student and tutor demographics, assessment results and achievement of goals, class levels and locations, etc.
The grant also included money for a laser jet printer, refurbished computer, and fax machine. It will take time to enter all of the data, but the system will be up and running by the end of August.
LVG’s Annual Fundraiser was held on April 30 at the Candlewood Inn. Almost two hundred guests ate, danced, and bid their way to a successful evening for LVG, raising almost $25,000 to support the organization’s general operating expenses. Auction items included an afternoon of cruising on Candlewood Lake, romantic get-aways at area inns, Red Sox and Yankees memorabilia, the use of a country house for the week-end, theater tickets, dining out certificates, and airline tickets. Kudos to Anne Maitland and Carol McCarthy who were the chairs of the event.
Please put April 15, 2011 on your calendar. We guarantee that you will have a great time!
Right: Board member Margaret Wiener and student GJ Hernandez, both of Kent, announce auction winners while board member Sue McWhinnie looks on.
Facilitated by Arley Gray, the Tutor Training for Teaching English, was held on March 23-25. Arley has his M.A. from Columbia University in Teaching English as a Second Language and currently offers project management and editorial services to ESL publishers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Please welcome the following to the LVG Family of Tutors: Lisa Atkinson, Loretta Bayers, Elenor Bristol, Laura Cleary, Alexandra DiPentima, John Frank, Judith Friedman, Kam Ho, Margaret Kistinger, Darren Lougee, Frances Morris, Helen Piacquadio, Rick Slivka, Frank Tedesco, and Wendy Walker.
This spring, Tutor Training for Teaching Basic Literacy was added to LVG’s training programs. Patty Buchan who earned a master’s degree in reading, founded a literacy volunteers group in Maine, and teaches at Naugatuck Community College taught the sessions for us on April 24 and June 5. Four current and five new tutors are now available to teach basic literacy: Norman Adler, Loretta Bayers, Saun Ellis-Drohojowska, George Gishman, Marylyn Hendricks, Marty Lambert, Barbara Leahey, Helaine McDermott, and Franz Ryerson.
The 2010 Tutor Training Sessions are funded in part through a grant from the Savings Bank of Danbury. There will be another Tutor Training for Teaching English session in the fall.
Our next tutor Training will be held Tuesday, March 23rd, Wednesday, March 24th and Thursday, March 25th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at St. John’s Church Parish Hall, New Milford, CT. For further information please call 860-355-0830.
DECEMBER 19 2009
This gathering is the first Annual Meeting of Literacy Volunteers on the Green. It is an opportunity for us to thank all of the volunteers, donors and other friends who have helped us during 2009, and to report on our activities in this period. (more…)
Two of LVG’s former students, Melinda and Alma Mucka, have just opened a restaurant in Lakeville, CT.
New West Main
8 Holly Place
Lakeville, CT
Open for lunch and dinner 7 days
860-596-0505
Please join us in celebrating this wonderful accomplishments and in sending our best wishes for continued success!
NEW MILFORD – (November 10, 2009) – Literacy Volunteers on the Green, Inc., the non-profit organization that helps newcomers to the area learn English, has scheduled its annual meeting December 19, 2009 at 10 am at St. John’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall in New Milford .
The purpose of this meeting will be to review the organization’s activities for the past year; elect directors and officers for the next year; and to conduct other business as may be properly brought before the meeting.
During the first three years of its existence LVG operated under the aegis of United Way of Western Connecticut , but after receiving designation as a 501 [c] (3) corporation by the Internal Revenue Service in 2008 it now operates independently.
Contact: Allan Priaulx, 800-762-4763
Click on the link below to read an article in the Danbury News-Times featuring LVG and our participation in the Family Read program.
http://www.newstimes.com/search/ci_13679157?IADID=Search-www.newstimes.com-www.newstimes.com (NOTE: This link is no longer available)
