This spring, English at Work launches the Accelerator Project, a strategic growth plan that will have a deep impact on families across the state of Texas by 2020.
The goals of the Project are to reach more hard-working employees and to serve them better over the next ten years. Helping these employees increase their English proficiency will allow them to advance at work, better support their children’s education, and move their families out of poverty.
During the first year of the project, English at Work’s Board of Directors and staff will dedicate most of their time to creating the growth plan. The plan will go into effect in early 2011. In March, the Kellogg Foundation joined a list of early local supporters of the Accelerator Project. The $25,000 Kellogg award will go toward staff salaries as well as program and administrative expenses over the next 12 months.
Established in 1930, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and southern Africa.