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Call for Nominations: 2007 Verizon Tech Savvy Awards
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globalsc-@cox.net
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Nov 02, 2006 15:46 PST
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Call for Nominations: 2007 Verizon Tech Savvy Awards
Nominations for the 2007 Verizon Tech Savvy Awards are now available.
These are the first national awards honoring programs that improve
parents and children's understanding and use of technology. Four
$5,000 regional awards and one $25,000 national award will be
presented. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 12, 2007.
The annual award will be given for the first time in March 2007 in
Orlando, Fla., at the National Center for Family Literacy's annual
conference, the National Conference on Family Literacy.
The Verizon Tech Savvy Awards were established by the National Center
for Family Literacy (NCFL), the Verizon Foundation, and the First Lady
of Iowa Christie Vilsack, a Verizon Literacy Champion. The awards are
designed to support programs that help parents bridge the widening gap
between adults and children's understanding of technology. The two
generations must learn about technology together so parents can be
effective teachers and advocates to ensure that their children are
literate in technology and prepared for the 21st century workforce.
Successful programs should create innovative ways to employ
technology as an important component in family literacy, and those
methods should have the ability to be easily replicated at other sites
across the country.
Organizations that are 501(c)(3) nonprofits, such as community-based
nonprofits, libraries and schools, should apply. Religious or
sectarian organizations may apply only if the program(s) offered
serve a broad cross-section of the community.
Organizations should apply within one of the regions specified on the
map provided in the nomination kit.
For a copy of the 2007 Verizon Tech Savvy Awards nomination form or
to send a notice about the awards to a colleague, visit
www.famlit.org/techsavvyawards
<outbind://245/www.famlit.org/techsavvyawards> .
NCFL is the worldwide leader in family literacy, an intergenerational
approach to help families escape poverty through education. More than
1 million families have made positive educational and economic gains as a
result of NCFL'
s work, which includes training more than 150,000 teachers and
thousands of volunteers.
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