Polaroid Fund

Proposals will be considered from organizations seeking to:

• Mitigate barriers to learning such as cultural and language differences, transportation and childcare issues, and fragmentation of available services.
• Advocate for public policy changes that increase provider capacity, create employer incentives to offer workplace literacy programs, and increases state and local funding.
• Advocate for greater private and employer investment in worker education.
• Support programs integrating early literacy programming for children birth to three years old with ABE/ESOL and parenting courses.
• Protect the cultural context and bonds of a community by preserving and supporting neighborhood-based programs providing access to literacy and ABE/ESOL classes.
• Address gaps in programming and provider services. Encourage programming for all stages of adult learning, from adult basic education to preparation for successful enrollment in post-secondary education and training.
• Support capacity building of programs that meet one or more of the objectives listed above.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)