Hi, all, I received this message from COABE today because Miriam Burt and I are the strand coordinators for the adult ESL strand. I’ll attend the meeting with Dollar General if I can. I wanted to make you all aware of this opportunity to see whether NCL might want to become involved in any way. Deborah Deborah Kennedy Associate Vice President, Adult English Language Education Director, English for Heritage Language Speakers Program Center for Applied Linguistics 4646 40th Street NW Washington, DC 20016 Voice: 202-355-1572 www.cal.org/adultesl www.ehlsprogram.org From: Sharon Bonney [mailto:sharonbonney@coabe.org] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 6:45 AM Subject: COABE Strand Coordinator: Funding Opportunity Hello everyone, Dear strand partners, As you are likely aware, COABE has received funding from a few organizations toward our public affairs/public awareness campaign which will launch at our conference in April. We will have fact sheets, tool kits, opeds, videos, and more to share. In addition, one of the funders, Dollar General Literacy Foundation, is interested in potentially funding a much larger cohesive public awareness campaign that could be promoted by many organizations that have had input into the messaging. As I talked with them about this, we felt that the conference provided a wonderful opportunity to bring interested strand partners together to discuss this in more detail. Due to our funder's limited availability at conference, we are proposing the following dates and times. Sunday 4/10 at 4pm or 8:30pm Monday 4/11 at 10am If you or a representative from your organization are interested in participating, please note your availability in the doodle provided here<http://doodle.com/poll/vze867dmrg6579ue>. REMINDERS a) We wanted to make sure you received an invitation to attend our annual VIP Event (invitation here<http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1112004712009&ca=c8982906-05a1-463b-a3b8-f08eb9139766>). I hope you are able to join us! You are also welcome to bring a guest (or two!) b) New this year, we would like to publicly recognize you for your efforts at our general session on Tuesday morning and will have a row reserved in the front for one representative from your organization. If you have not done so yet, can you please let me know who will be attending in your place? c) We would like to have a strand coordinator's meeting on Tuesday, 4/12 from 3:30-4:30 in our presidential suite (I'll send you the suite # once we receive it from the hotel). Please plan to attend this meeting if your organization is interested in coordinating a strand for COABE 2017 in Orland, FL! Our agenda will be quite simple: Celebrate what worked; discussed what can be improved; plan for COABE 2017. Kind Regards, [cid:sigimg1@329e711e43c154a0637a4d05215d3ea7] Sharon Bonney Executive Director E: sharonbonney@coabe.org<mailto:sharonbonney@coabe.org> W: www.coabe.org<http://www.coabe.org> M: PO Box 620, Syracuse, NY 13206 Connect with us! Download our FREE App for adult educators at www.coabe.org<http://www.coabe.org> [cid:image001.jpg@01D185D8.7B7CED70]Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/COABEnews> [cid:image002.png@01D185D8.7B7CED70]Twitter<http://twitter.com/COABEnews> [cid:image003.jpg@01D185D8.7B7CED70]LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/groups/COABE-4860354?gid=4860354&goback=.gmp_4860354&trk=NUS_UNIU-ngroup> Call Send SMS Call from mobile Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype