Abstract
Funding a non-profit community book festival requires an approach that incorporates sound business reasoning as well as community involvement, sponsorship of local businesses, advertising, and a commitment to success from the group that is planning the festival. This group, Literacy for Kalamazoo, is committed to planning, advertising, and hosting the event, "Harvesting Readers." The research into fundraising, donations, planning, and a proposal to the city council are discussed.
Book Festival
The fitness craze is everywhere. We see it on the television, read about it in
newspapers and magazines, and hear about it on the radio. From the current low carbohydrate/low fat diet fad to weight training and aerobic workouts, health consciousness is all around us. The trend in America seems to be to keep the body fit: but what about the brain? Exercise is tremendous for physical well-being, but equally as important is exercise for the mind.
The Workforce Act of 1998 defines literacy as "an individual's ability to read, write, and speak in English, compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job, in the family of the individual and society" (National Institute for Literacy).
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
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English: The fields in which the sporting area/cla...According to the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) there are five stages of literacy. An adult is considered to be at stage one or level one is when they can read a little, but not enough to fill out an application, read labels, or even read a story to their children. Between 21 and 23 percent of the adult population (44 million people) are currently at this level. About 25 percent of this population is immigrants who may be learning English or may be unable to speak the English language at all. Sixty percent of the level one population has not completed high school, 30 percent are age...