The Virginia Literacy Foundation applications for 2009-2010 matching grants are now available. If your program is a community-based literacy program and eligible to apply for one of these grants, you may either request a packet of grant application forms by calling Julia Norman at 804-237-8909 or by clicking on the links below. The VLF grant deadline this year is 5:00 p.m., March 16, 2009. This year only new applicants are required to fill out a 2009 Survey Form and return it with their grant application. (This form is filled out once every three years. Programs that last filled out a survey for FY 2005/2006 should also send in a survey form.)
This is the second year that programs may request the VLF QuAL-D database in their grant. The request is competitive, and only two programs will be chosen per year to receive it. (See the Instruction Sheet to calculate costs.)
Our 2009-2010 matching grants are offered in tiered categories. The amount of funding for which an organization is eligible is tied to the numbers of adult literacy students it served in the last full fiscal year.* Funding tiers are as follows:
Tier One: One-year matching grants
Tier Two: Two-year matching grants
* "Students served" is defined as permanently matched adult students who have received at least six hours of basic literacy instruction in 2007-2008 in one or more of these areas: one-on-one tutoring, small group classes, family literacy (adult literacy component), pre-GED instruction, computer literacy, jail program, etc.
Click here to download the documents: