Links

Advocacy

Connecticut Association for Non-Profits' Advocacy and Lobbying Toolkit http://www.ctnonprofits.org/Pages/NonprofitResources/Advocacy_Lobbying_Toolkit.asp

This toolkit provides information to assist your organization in strategic and tactical advocacy and lobbying plans, best practices, recommendations, step-by-step processes and procedures, and samples.

The following two websites are maintained and updated by David J. Rosen, Ed.D. of Newsome Associates in Boston, Massachusetts and provide useful advocacy information to those who want to make a difference in adult literacy, basic education, and ESOL public policy.

Adult Education Public Policy Advocacy - Nationally and in the States http://alri.org/Rosen/advocacy/advocacydocs.html

State, Regional and Urban Organizations
(advocate for adult literacy/basic education and ESL/ESOL) http://alri.org/Rosen/advocacy/advocacy.html

Education

Connecticut

Connecticut Education Association
www.cea.org

Connecticut State Department of Education
www.state.ct.us/sde

Our Children, Our Schools: A Family Resource Guide to Connecticut's Public Schools
www.schoolguide.org
This guide, a project of the Connecticut Policy and Economic Council, in partnership with the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, is for parents, grandparents, foster parents, aunts, uncles, and older brothers and sisters, guardians and others who care for and support the students of Connecticut. In it, you will find 10 questions to ask at a parent-teacher conference and 10 ways to judge school quality, learn about the latest research on child development or the national debate around standardized testing. This guide can also help you support your child's learning and, if you want to go further, become more involved as a citizen in the decisions that affect all children in the schools in your community and across our state.

Connecticut's Special Education Resource Center
www.ctserc.org

Federal

United States Department of Education
www.ed.gov

Funding

Federal Funds Information for States (FFIS)
www.ffis.org
Federal Funds Information for States (FFIS) is a joint subscription service of the National Governors' Association and the National Conference of State Legislatures. The primary mission of FFIS is to track and report on the fiscal impact of federal budget and policy decisions on state budgets and programs. This information is maintained in a database of more than 200 federal grant-in-aid programs and is disseminated to subscribers through a regular series of reports and briefs.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
www.cfda.gov
The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives you access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.

Hartford-Specific Sites

City of Hartford
www.hartford.gov

Hartford Public Library
www.hartfordpl.lib.ct.us

Hartford Public Schools
www.hartfordschools.org

One Book for Greater Hartford
www.onebookforgreaterhartford.org

United Way of the Capital Area
www.uwcact.org

Health Literacy

The American Medical Association
www.ama-assn.org

Pfizer Health Literacy Initiative
www.pfizerhealthliteracy.com

Information and Referral

CT United Way Infoline
www.infoline.org

Literacy

National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
www.nifl.gov

NAULC (National Alliance of Urban Literacy Coalitions)
www.naulc.org

Research and Statistics

National Center for Educational Statistics
www.nces.ed.gov

National Center for Learning Disabilities
www.ncld.org

No Child Left Behind
www.nochildleftbehind.gov

Census 2000
www.census.gov

Workforce Literacy

Capital Region Workforce Development Board
www.capitalworkforce.org

Connecticut State Department of Labor
www.ctdol.state.ct.us