Funding a literacy program

If a literacy program is small, costs for the program may be negligible or may be absorbed by individuals associated with the program.

Once a program involves more than a few people or classes, however, you must anticipate significant program costs and find a way to cover them.

Here are the prerequisites for funding a literacy program:

• Design your literacy program as completely as possible. In most cases this takes place in several cycles. The process of making a budget for funding purposes will suggest additions and revisions to your initial program plan.

  See:	Literacy program planning

• Get approval from your entity administration to work on a funding proposal.

• Prepare a budget for your literacy program.
• Decide on a source of funding.
• Write a funding proposal.
• Make presentations to funding agencies.
• Manage the program funds.
• Report on the use of program funds.

• Task module: Funding a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In task module: Identifying resources needed for a literacy progra..., by Stephen L. Walter
• In task module: Planning a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter
• In modular book: Plan a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Barbara K. Trudell (contributor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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