NCL Members, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and are looking forward to some time off during the upcoming holidays. A couple of quick notes: 1. Thanks to NCL member Margaret Patterson/Research Allies for organizing our end-of-the-year fundraising campaign, "Adult Education Brings the American Dream in Reach." All of you reading this already contribute a great to NCL — money and time — but if you are so inclined, an additional donation is much appreciated. Or consider asking a friend or colleague to make a donation. As you know, we have a modest budget by design — and we don’t rely heavily on individual donations to sustain our work — but we have demonstrated over the last several year in particular, that we do A LOT of unique and valuable things with the money we receive. There’s no other entity I know of that brings so many different organizations in our field together to share ideas and projects (esp. true of our last two member meetings) or to work together to bring awareness to folks on the Hill about our field, like we do every year with our awards event. I know all of you reading this think this work is valuable — if you could tell just one other person about us and about our campaign, I would consider our effort a success. Again, as a reminder, here is the link: http://national-coalition-literacy.org/2015/11/ncl-launches-adult-education-brings-the-american-dream-in-reach-campaign/ 2. I realized just recently after going to look for them that when we rebuilt the web site last year, we didn’t include a link to our bylaws. I have restored this to the “About Us” page. Also, as a reminder —you can access archives to messages sent to this list, including member meeting notes and notes from previous policy meetings, via this link: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/pipermail/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/ Thanks, Jeff Jeff Carter — President, National Coalition for Literacy http://national-coalition-literacy.org General Contact Info — jcarter@literacypolicy.org or jeffcrtr@gmail.org Personal Twitter: @jeffcrtr | literacypolicy.org Cell: (202) 374-4387