Experiences with Literacy Empowerment Foundation?

[dougj <dougj@DOUG-JOHNSON.COM>]

Hi folks,

The email below is making the rounds in my district. I visited the website
for LEP and, on first glance, this looks more like a marketing program than
a true grant. Also, no actual titles of any materials were listed. Maybe it
is a wonderful thing, but it doesn=B9t appear so at first glance.

Does anyone out there have knowledge or experience with the Literacy
Empowerment Foundation?

Thanks for any information you might have.

Doug


Doug Johnson
Director of Media and Technology
Mankato Area Public Schools
Box 8713, 1351 S Riverfront Dr.
Mankato MN 56001-8714
507-387-7698 x 473
dougj@doug-johnson.com
www.doug-johnson.com
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If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairly tales. If you
want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales. (attributed to Albert
Einstein)

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

MATCHING BOOK GRANTS INCREASED

The Literacy Empowerment Foundation (LEF) has increased the size of the
matching grants available to $8,000.00 per school.  A school can now order
$16,000.00 worth of books and pay only $8,000.00.  (Any amount purchased
from $100.00 to $8,000.00 will be matched.)

Here are the details:  The Matching Book Grant Program offers Guided Readin=
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and Independent Reading Collections.  Guided Reading Collections consist of
six copies each of eighteen titles.  Independent Reading Collections consis=
t
of one copy each of 108 titles.  With each set of Guided Reading and/or
Independent Reading Collections purchased at the regular price, an
additional set of books will be included.

The Literacy Empowerment Foundation (LEF) is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit
organization.  LEF currently supplies books to over 15,000 schools.  The
number of books available in the Matching Book Grant Program has increased
dramatically.  Matching Book Grants allow your school to double its
purchasing power.  This is a limited time offer that requires no special
screening or applications.

Orders must be received by November 15, 2004.

Please forward this email to your friends and colleagues in literacy.

Information and a matching book grant order form are available at
http://www.lefbooks.org/
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Literacy Empowerment Foundation
1311 West Chester Pike
West Chester, PA 19382.
Phone:  610-719-6448
Email: Rorendi@literacyempowerment.org

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