Services provided by the Excellence in Literacy Foundation
2011 ELF Donations Gift Catalogue
Create a Community – Open Doors
Support an Entire ELF Literacy Program for ONE YEAR: $2000
Your gift will fund an ELF-supported literacy program, teaching reading, writing and life skills for 100 children in a low-income, new Canadian, aboriginal or special needs community in Canada. Your support will provide:
- a welcoming and supportive learning environment
- original, inclusive ELF workbooks with engaging, motivating, sensitive content appropriate to the daily lives of children and youth we seek to help
- literacy skills and the precious confidence they create
- caring, well-trained volunteers who specialize in working with youth
- work experience, community connection and support to volunteers
Months of Hope
Support an Entire ELF Literacy Program for ONE TERM - $700
Imagine being a seven-year-old child growing up in a family where your parents are trying very hard to make ends meet and are struggling with their own low literacy skills. Who do you turn to for help with your homework or to read a bedtime story? Your support could provide four months of literacy classes to teach literacy and life skills to students aged five to 18.
- Your contribution helps ESL students arriving in our classrooms unable to speak a word of English or French, to read and write at a first grade level, and this often happens after one term.
- Your support gives students with learning challenges the confidence to improve at twice the rate of children who do not have the help of ELF-supported programs.
- Your gift ensures the continuity of a program that makes students positive about learning so they do not drop out of school.
- Your commitment to this program guarantees that another Canadian community can offer the hope of literacy support for a four-month term to children who are in need.
Supplying the Essentials
Class supplies for a full program for ONE YEAR - $200
Paper, pencils, pens, erasers, pencil sharpeners and dictionaries—the basic tools needed for reading and writing, teaching and sharing knowledge—are in short supply in many of our students’ classrooms. Your gift goes directly to the classroom to provide essential materials for a full year of programming giving children the tools to learn to read, write and be confident about learning.
Mentoring Wisdom
Train a volunteer literacy tutor-mentor - $50
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
ELF programs strive to bring the gift of literacy through free mentoring programs to high-need children and youth. Without the help of our talented, dedicated volunteer tutors and mentors across Canada, we could never deliver the gift of literacy—and hope—to these wonderful young people. Your gift of $50 will defray the cost of training one literacy volunteer tutor-mentor. Once trained, many of our volunteers become influential literacy advocates among their peers in their communities!
A Working Gift that Works Wonders –
Literacy Workbooks for ONE student for ONE YEAR - $30
Our workbooks focus on Canadian-relevant themes and teach students about First Nations and multi-cultural issues, as well as our parliamentary system and civic responsibilities in Canada. ELF programs across Canada receive these materials at no cost and students and mentors consistently give the workbooks rave reviews. The content of our workbooks reflects the daily lives and circumstances of the students our programs serve and encourage students to be role models in our diverse society.
Building a Case - From your hand to theirs
A full pencil case for ONE ELF Program- $10.00
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.."
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
We go through oodles of pencils in our ELF-supported programs because we teach our students how to print, capture their thoughts in full sentences, proofread, change and improve upon their own work. And what tool is more effective at helping you hone your thoughts on paper, than a pencil with a small eraser on the end? Your gift of $10.00 will cover the cost of a full pencil case for one of our ELF programs.
How to make a donation for an item from our Gift Catalogue
Please click here to go to our Donations Gift Catalogue:
Once you decide on an item that you would like to donate please follow the following instructions:
Please click on the Canada Helps link at the bottom of this page
When on the Canada Helps website, please follow these steps:
Step 1 – Please enter the donation amount related to your gift(s).
Step 2 – Please select the desired frequency of your donation.
Step 3 – Under fund/designation you will find a drop down menu. Please select the appropriate gift item. We apologize for the possible inconvenience, but for multiple donations of different gift items, separate donations will have to be submitted.
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Thank you for your generous support!
We have had the pleasure of working with dozens of outstanding community partners across Canada. We are proud to have been able to support them in developing their excellent programs.
Please click here to read some testimonials from community partners across Canada.