Our Funders

CBAL is grateful to its partners, funders, sponsors, supporters and volunteers.  We would like to acknowledge the following regional funders and partners who help to make the work we do possible. 

• Columbia Basin Trust
• Decoda Literacy Solutions
• Selkirk College
• College of the Rockies
• Province of British Columbia (Ministry of Education, Advanced Education and Jobs,Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour)
• Government of Canada (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada)

To learn more about the local funders in each community, please refer to our Community Programs page. 

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Want to make a difference?

The Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy is a charitable         non-profit organization dependent on funding, donations and support to deliver its community programs.

Please contact your  Community Literacy Coordinator to learn how to donate, sponsor or volunteer at a program or event in your area.

• Join a literacy program in your community
• Support your public library
• Contact us or your local Literacy Coordinator for a         presentation to your staff, service club, Parent                Advisory Committee or other organization
• Volunteer at a school, in a literacy program, or at your   public library
• Read, write or draw, sing nursery rhymes and songs,     tell stories and have meaningful conversations at home with your family
• Go on family outings and talk about what you have seen and done
• Enroll in a class - learning new things keeps our literacy skills alive
• Support events like Family Literacy Day

By helping to support literacy programs in your community,
​you are helping to make a difference!