Partnerships and Collaborations
Why Form Partnerships?
Taken from Oregon.gov - Early Literacy Initiative - How to Obtain Funding :
In your efforts to improve Early Literacy awareness in your community, we hope that will consider joining with other organizations concerned with child welfare. Collaboration offers not only a better opportunity to receive funding, but also several other tangible benefits.
Collaboration offers you:
- Access to additional resouces
- Opportunities to cooperate across institutional borders
- New perspectives and ideas
- Opportunites to think "outside the box"
- Access to new target populations
- Relationships for the future
- The competitive edge: grantmakers want to fund collaboration
Community, Regional, State, and National Contacts:
County Job and Family Services Agency Directory from ODJFS
Day Care Facility Search from ODJFS
County Directory of Licensed Day Cares from ODJFS
Help Me Grow County Provider contacts for all 88 Ohio counties
Ohio Head Start Association - featuring a statewide directory of Head Start programs
Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association
Kent State University School of Library and Information Science
COSI: Columbus Center of Science and Industry
Ohio State University Extension
Resources to Help You Reach Out:
Every Child Ready to Read: Making a Difference in Early Literacy - Your Public Library and You - PowerPoint presentation providing information to community agencies about available early literacy library services.
State Agencies:
Ohio Department of Education/Office of Early Learning and School Readiness