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Author_Frank Ridzi
Author_Margaret Doughty
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Coalition best practices
Collective impact
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Funding literacy initiatives
History of coalitions
Literacy
Literacy coalition development
Literacy policy
Models of collaboration
Product details
- ISBN 9781498508452
- Weight: 526g
- Dimensions: 159 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book seeks to demonstrate the ways in which collective impact approaches have guided the development of literacy coalitions over time. Since community collaboration strategies developed to address social issues, coalitions have grown from small networking organizations to powerful forces for change. The history of literacy coalitions offers a timeline outlining the why, who, what, where, when and how of communities that were influenced by social and political changes and the ways coalitions responded and thrived. The lack of literacy has held back economic development in the US and coalitions shine a light on issues associated with illiteracy and low school achievement. Not all coalitions succeed and the book explores models of success, funding strategies, evaluation and impact. The goal is to assist those developing coalitions by providing not only lessons learned but a blueprint for success.
Frank Ridzi is Vice President for Community Investment at the Central New York
Community Foundation and associate professor of sociology at Le Moyne College. He is a past
president of the Literacy Funders Network.
Margaret Doughty founded Literacy Powerline and directed the Houston READ Commission.
