About Us
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Forty-two percent (42%) of Canadians, aged 16–65, do not have
the minimum literacy skills for coping with everyday life and work.
More than 290,000 Manitobans have low literacy skills
and struggle with daily tasks.
LITERACY PARTNERS OF MANITOBA helps open the doors to life-long learning and a society where we can all participate fully. We strive for a society in which everyone has the literacy and essential skills to deal with the challenges of daily life at home, work, and their larger community.
Our Mission
Literacy Partners of Manitoba is committed to supporting learners and practitioners in their efforts to improve Literacy and Essential Skills in Manitoba, and to raise the awareness of the importance of Literacy and Essential Skills with stakeholders and partners.
What We Do…
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Provide a unified voice for literacy awareness and issues in Manitoba and host literacy events and fundraisers such as Family Literacy Day, I Love to Read Month, International Adult Learner Week and International Literacy Day.
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Help adults access literacy & learning programs through LEARN Line referrals. Call 947-5757 (toll free in Manitoba: 1-866-947-5757) or e-mail learnline@mb.literacy.ca
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Manage a resource centre with a wide range of literacy and essential skills materials available to LPM Members and learners. You can visit the on-line Resource Centre or the library at our office in Winnipeg's Exchange District.
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Offer bursaries to support learners and practitioners and administer Raise-a-Reader Grants for Family Literacy Programs. Click here to see a list of LPM-sponsored bursaries.
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Empower and engage Manitobans in continuous learning through practitioner networks, training and strategic partnerships that support our mission and vision.
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Publish Write On! Magazine twice a year, which features writing by adult literacy learners and instructors and publish monthly e-bulletins featuring local, national and international information relevant to LPM members, stakeholders and partners
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Provide Plain Language services to social service agencies, government departments, business and industry and produce Plain Language publications such as ‘Going to the Doctor’ and ‘Being Safe at Work’.
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Offer membership bonuses and access to resources for those joining our cause. Membership is open to individuals, organizations and businesses and our financial and membership year runs from September 1st to August 31st.
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Hold an Annual General Meeting (AGM) during which learner scholarships and practitioner award recipients are recognized and elect a voluntary Board of Directors, who develop policies in accordance with our by-laws.
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
Kofi Annan, former Secretary General United Nations
What You Can Do…
Literacy Partners of Manitoba believes that literacy is a human right and all Manitobans have a role to play. Help make a positive change in the literacy landscape of our province by becoming a member or joining our Board of Directors.
Literacy Partners of Manitoba (LPM) is a non-profit organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and is supported by a community-based membership, individual and corporate donors, the Government of Canada Office of Literacy and Essential Skills, and the Province of Manitoba Adult Learning and Literacy Branch, Manitoba Advanced Education and Literacy. We were founded in 1987 as the “Literacy Workers’ Alliance of Manitoba”, then incorporated as “Literacy Partners of Manitoba” in 1996.
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in collaboration with LPM