2007 ANNUAL REPORT
Opening Doors. Changing Lives.
“. . . my favorite moments are the ones in which we all forget who is the teacher and who are the students.”
“. . . you meet wonderful people who just happen to need this assistance. . .” Message from Programs Perspectives Rachel Myers, Executive Director 2007 was a wonderful year for Whatcom Literacy Council and I am In 2007, one of our Agency’s key visions for itself came to fruition. happy to share just a few highlights of our year with you. Whatcom Literacy Council became a more fully realized community partner; capable of providing small group classes both in-house and in Kicking off the year in February outreach form throughout Whatcom county. The Program staff Scott & Christina Ham pledge $5060 per year for Literacy for Life started to take a good long look at the populations we currently serve, and how best, and if possible, better to serve them. In the latter part In March, we started a Communication of the year, we focused on our commitment to continuously assess Skills class at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Lynden to serve and acknowledge the changing needs of our learners and volunteers. learners in that community. 2007 was an intensive time of change, reflection and planning. With Thanks to widespread the combined efforts of our Board of Directors and our Executive community support, Director, we moved our offices to a new location. Our new Elm Street offices are larger, more accessible and even include a small, yet
colorful classroom. Our much improved physical space provides us with exciting potential to offer new programs. the 11th Annual Trivia Bee We began a Communications Skills class at St. Joseph’s Church in in April raises more than Lynden as one of our outreach sites. In addition we began planning $30,000! for our 2008 G.E.D. Study lab in Blaine, and an E.L.L. Parent class at More than 175 people participate in the Roosevelt Elementary. The success of these programs was contingent Village Books/Fairhaven upon good council from generous educators and supportive partners. Runners Run for Literacy in Toward that end, I would like to thank our gracious community June! partners, including, but not limited to, Whatcom Community College,