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of the U.S. Department of Education
Juntos
Highlights
Introduction
Background
The Juntos Partnership
Juntos In The Community
The HALO Center
The Community Education Project
Shared Professional Development
Enhanced Curriculum
More Support for Learners
Increased Accountability
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Connection to Community
Conclusion
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JUNTOS IN THE COMMUNITY
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Eligibility requirements for grants often favor partnerships. Since the formation of Juntos, the partner organizations have been more successful in attracting funding, especially grant money. Rather than starting from scratch when writing grant proposals, they have the information gathered each year for the community Assets and Needs Statement readily available to give them a better understanding of what the community needs. From 1995 through 1999, Juntos's annual base award from the state Department of Education increased dramatically (from approximately $60,000 to just under $400,000). While the availability of increased funding was very much a function of the state legislature's substantially increased commitment to ABE, Holyoke was able to benefit significantly because the collaborative offered a ready-made, flexible vehicle for the effective investment of new resources.

In addition, while Massachusetts' statewide ABE programs have experienced an overall loss of approximately 10 percent in public funding over the last three years, due to economic conditions, Holyoke's ABE system has actually experienced an increase in both public and private investment from 2000 to the present. Some grants that the Juntos partners have been awarded and/or have been central to leveraging include:

  • Nellie Mae Education Foundation ABE-to-College Transition funds (a five-year, $45,000 per year grant to CEP/HCC).

  • Massachusetts Department of Education's English Literacy/Civic Participation Grant (a $25,000 increase to Juntos's overall DOE award beginning in 2002-03.).

  • Local Community Development Block Grant appropriations (annual funding for the Juntos partners and related ABE programs has increased by 35 percent since 2000).

  • Family literacy grants. A federally funded Even Start grant for $180,000, and a locally supported family literacy pilot project using state and local resources totaling just over $100,000.

  • ABE Curriculum Frameworks Integration and Technology Integration grants (from the state Department of Education) totaling approximately $100,000 from 1997 through 2002.

  • The appropriation in 2003-04 of 21st Century Learning Centers grant funds by the Holyoke Public Schools to CEP for an EL class for parents of students at the Kelly Elementary School.

  • W.K.Kellogg Foundation Grant to HCC to sponsor a citywide planning effort aimed at promoting excellence in education for Latinos of all ages and, in particular, improving the rates of enrollment and retention of members of Holyoke's Latino community at HCC and other local colleges.