Annual Reports
Annual Report 2018-2019
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"We wish to express our deep appreciation for the staff, volunteers, board, funders and community members who contribute to this important work. To the many participants who allow us the opportunity to grow and learn with you - thank you for the immense honour and privilege of being a part of your journey!
Allison Alder and Desneiges Profili Board Chair Executive Director |
Annual Report 2017-2018
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"Greetings from the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy Board of Directors. In this document you’ll find wonderful pictures and statistics that reveal the broad reach and profound impact CBAL makes throughout the Kootenay and Boundary regions. From the one-to-one tutoring program to family literacy and newcomer settlement services, CBAL volunteers, employees and learners are making bold strides forward in their exploration of literacy and learning. This work transforms lives and builds communities."
Allison Alder Board Chair |
Annual Report 2016-2017
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"Throughout the Columbia Basin and Boundary region, literacy volunteers, employees and learners meet on common ground to explore growth and learning, to have fun and to improve their lives. The effects can be profound, changing the very foundation of how a person sees themself. They can be permanent, transforming the values upon which a community bases its identity. And they can be cumulative, with one small change in the way a person lives life rippling outward to touch family, community, workplace and friends. This is good work; it matters deeply in our world."
Allison Alder Board Chair |
Annual Report 2015-2016
Annual Report 2014-2015
 Annual Report 2013-2014
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"CBAL has grown over the past 15 years through the hard work and commitment of its staff and volunteers, who are supported by a dedicated Board of Directors and many generous funders and community partners. Together they are innovative, industrious, and caring as they manage the organization, interact with learners, develop new and responsive programming, and build awareness of and support for literacy. Together, they make change happen." Allison Alder Board Chair "(Literacy) can be profound, changing the very foundation of how a person sees himself. It can be permanent, transforming the values upon which a community bases its identity. And it can be cumulative, with one small change in the way a person lives life rippling outward to touch family, community, workplace, and friends – and then rippling even further from there to ultimately build a better, stronger world in which we all can grow, share, and prosper together." Allison Alder Board Chair "CBAL is an organization of collaboration. With a network of generous funders and supportive partners, CBAL can offer programming deep and wide in scope and can validate literacy work as indispensable. We are graced by their appetite for meaningful contribution and building community together." Allison Alder Board Chair |
Annual Report 2012-2013
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"Highlights of this past year include The Learning Place in Nelson, BC which is designed to bring people and resources together to create a sustainable learning space." Dr. Marilyn Petersen President |
Annual Report 2011-2012
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"Finally, I want to acknowledge those who participate in CBAL programs and have the courage to change their lives—thank you for touching ours." Dr. Marilyn Petersen President |