First Book 

The First Book Marketplace is an online store selling high-quality children's books and educational materials at deeply discounted prices to organizations serving children from low-income families. Find out more and get started!

  

Institute for Healthcare Advancement

The Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) is a not-for-profit, 501 (c)(3) private operating foundation with a mission of empowering people to better health.  They fulfill this mission through several programs and initiatives; providing direct healthcare delivery through the community clinic, Friends of Children Health Center and outreach and social services to the surrounding community through La Habra Family Resource Center. IHA's Health Literacy efforts include the "What To Do For Health" book series, which features easy-to-read and use healthcare information, and a professional continuing education health literacy conference each year in May.

  

North American Mission Board

NAMB provides a number of resources designed to assist churches in literacy missions ministries. The web address is www.namb.net. Kendale Moore is the National Missionary assigned to literacy missions.

  

ProLiteracy

ProLiteracy America, is the largest adult literacy organization in the United States. It was established October 1, 2002, with the merger of Laubach Literacy and Literacy Volunteers of America. New Readers Press and other resources may be accessed through their website at www.proliteracy.org.

  

Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning

TCALL is a state partner in LINCS, the National Institute for Literacy Information and Communication System. TCALL provides many resources for teaching ESL, adult literacy and family literacy.

 

Thinkfinity – Verizon 

The Thinkfinity Literacy Network delivers free, top quality, online educational resources for literacy instruction and lifelong learning for adults and family literacy programs.The content on TLN strengthens literacy  development, creativity and critical thinking  skills for success in the 21st Century.

 

Texas LEARNS

 

At the Texas LEARNS Business meeting held at TALAE, hard copies were given out of a map showing the percent of population in each county that lacks basic prose literacy skills, based on U.S. Dept. of Education, Institute of Education Sciences January 2009 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Indirect County and State Estimate of the Percentage of Adults at the Lowest Literacy Level.
 
That map is now available on the Texas LEARNS website. You’ll find Percentage by County of Illiterate Adult Texans linked from the Texas LEARNS or TCALL home page announcements boxes – and it is also linked from the Texas LEARNS site’s Adult Ed in Texas Page – and from TCALL’s Facts & Statistics page.