News Release & Media Coverage			Top
GRACE Media Network (GMN) announces the Live streaming broadcast launch of its Official CLA Endorsed Resource 'Simply Phonics, Simply Reading™' with John & Sylvia Brown on GMNLive.com Radio 24/7 aka GMNLive! Radio CLA 2007 presents Simply Phonics, Simply Reading Kit© Give-Away selects winners Rae Woods and Evangelist Jerri Loche! GRACE Media Network's Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ™ (CLA) partners with Simply Phonic, Simply Reading™ to launch first CLA 2007 Simply Phonics, Simply Reading Kit© Give-Away contest online on GMNetwork.cc thru Jan 31 Bring us your books and help kids read better (Oct 12, 07) GRACE Media Network (GMN) readies the community for the 2007 October 'Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ™' (CLA) and targets dyslexia - removing the silence(Aug 17, 07) After Hurricane Katrina...From Campaign Literacy Awareness to MN Katrina Kidz with Love! (Jan 28, 06) HELP Teen Collect New Books & Toys (GMS ePress Vol5No13) 2005 October Campaign Literacy Awareness® (CLA) target: 'Dyslexia, removing the silence'... The Book Drive Community & Media Blitz Grace Media Network and PAX TV partner to roll out national Public Service Announcement for 2nd October Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ® Month (Oct 4, 02) Grace Media Network prepares community for 2nd Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ® 2002 Month book drive and targets ‘dyslexia' - Bishop Carlton Pearson hosts CLA Oklahoma launch (Aug 2, 2002) Sun Country Airlines partners with GMN to sponsor Campaign Literacy’s 10,000 books to New York City Kidz Ground Zero (Nov 5, 01) NdCAD partners with GMN and donates 10,000 Golden Books  to New York City Kidz Ground Zero; Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura proclaims October Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ® month (Oct 18, 01) Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul Mayors proclaim October 2001 Campaign Literacy Awarenes: The Right To READ® (Sept 28, 01) Mayor partners with GMN to donate books to New York City Kidz Ground Zero (Sept 24, 01)  Grace Media Network launches CAMPAIGN LITERACY: THE RIGHT TO READ® (Sept 4, 01)
Fact Sheet			Top
Conceived: 1992 Launched: October 2001, Minnesota Proclamation Month: October Corporate Profile: Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ® (CLA) Spokesperson Profile: John & Sylvia L. Brown Jr creators of Simply Phonics, Simply Reading™ Founder Profile: Prophetess Shena ReKayle 'SB' Barber Web Site: www.GMNetwork.cc Achive Links: CLA 2001 CLA 2007 About CLA: Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ® (CLA), A GRACE Media Network Initiative, launched in 2001 to counter-attack illiteracy through releasing the powerful gift -- The Right To READ®. CLA will mobilize community wide book drives; rally communities to embrace and promote literacy awareness; identify and support existing literacy/book giving programs; foster community wide volunteerism. The Founder/Executive is Prophetess Shena ReKayle 'SB' Barber. Benefit to the Community: Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ® is a mandate to rally and encourage the local church, business sector, media outlets and community to work together to be proactive in counter attacking illiteracy. Accomplishment: Give-Away contest to counter-attack illiteracy -- October, 2008, GMN announced the launch of the first CLA 2007 presents Simply Phonics, Simply Reading Kit© Give-Away contest. Winners were selected on May 20 '08 - Rae Woods and Evangelist Jeri Loche. Crisis intervention/Faith-based missions MN Katrina Survivor children -- Thursday, January 19, 2006, CLA responded to the local call for aide & relief assistance to the Southern Gulf Coast evacuees based in MN via Book donations made possible by the generous partnerships with Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) and Bethany House Publishers. The children were so excited about receiving the new books presented by 'From Campaign Literacy Awareness: To MN Katrina Kidz with Love! at 'The Big Easy To Big Freezy' event sponsored by The Minneapolis Urban League in collaboration with Home-Away From Home, Sabathani Community Center, Kingdom Oil and Minnesota African American Hurricane Relief Effort. NYC Ground Zero Survivor children -- December 2001, as a result of CLA being in place during the the attack on America - September 11, 2001, we shipped 10,000 new children activity books to NYC: From Campaign Literacy Awareness to NYC Kidz Ground Zero with Love! -- and the assistance of book donations from our partnerships with Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) and Bethany House Publishers, the community, volunteers, teens, corporate partnership with Radisson Hotel & Resorts, PAX TV/Paxson Communications, Sun Country Airlines and endorsements from City Officials & Educators. It is our goal to continue to mobilize and ‘call to action’ our communities/cities to counterattack illiteracy and be a support to one another – one book at a time. President George W. Bush was reading to students at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., in support of literacy, the day of the attack Sept. 11, 2001. Official CLA Endorsed Resources/Books: Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) and Exec Gevonee Ford (Endorsed Book Giving Program/Resource 10/2002 Mpls., MN) Simply Phonics, Simply Reading™ by Sylvia L. & John Brown Jr (Endorsed Book Oct '02 Tulsa, OK) Cherry Wood Finds A Home by Joyce Marrie (Endorsed Book/Reader Oct '05 Mpls., MN) Collaborative/Supporting Partners: Sabathani Community Center is a nonprofit organization. Sabathani's mission is to strengthen youth, children and families and to build the capacity of the community that Sabathani serves. (ABTE) is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to enhance the professional, educational, cultural and economic development of African Americans and the communities in which we live. (Mpls/St. Paul, MN) Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) is a family education enter based in St. Paul, Minnesota. We serve children, families and communities throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area, offering a variety of literacy and cultural enrichment programs and services for children, you and adults. The Alliance of Black Telecommunications Employees, Inc. (ABTE) is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to enhance the professional, educational, cultural and economic development of African Americans and the communities in which we live. (Mpls/St. Paul, MN) Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Newspaper is a 73-year old community newspaper committed to meeting the news and information needs of African Americans. The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder publishes every Thursday, reaching over 26,000 weekly readers here in Minnesota and around the country.
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Event Calendar			Top
Nov-Jan 31, 2008...Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ™ (CLA) presents CLA 2007 Simply Phonics, Simply Reading Kit© Give-Away contest online on GMNetwork.cc Nov 20, 2007, 7-30A CST...Dr. Ella & Eric Mahmoud of Harvest Prep Academy & Harvest Prep Boys Academy on GMNLive! Morning Show with SB Barber Stalling - 'Founder, Faith & Family' - CLA Followup. Nov-Jan 31, 2008...Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ™ (CLA) presents CLA 2007 Simply Phonics, Simply Reading Kit© Give-Away contest online on GMNetwork.cc Oct 2, 16, 23, 30, 2007, Tues...meet CLA 2007 spokesperson& guest co-host John and Sylvia L. Brown Jr on GMNLive! Morning Show with SB Barber Stalling, AM1470 KRJJ and online GMNetwork.cc. Oct 1, 2007, 7:30A ...CLA Founder Prophetess SB Barber Stalling - guest on AM1470 with Dexter Rivers. Sept 29, 2007, 8:30A ...CLA Founder Prophetess SB Barber Stalling - guest on NBC Affiliate/WCCO4 This Morning Show, Mpls, MN. Jan 19, 2006...CLA partners with MN Katrina Relief & Minneapolis Urban League 'Big Easy To Big Freezy' event. Dec 12-16, 2005...HELP Teen: CLA partners with MN Katrina Relief & Sabathani Community Center for CLA Book Drive.
Book Drop Sites/Literacy Partners - CLA welcomes your participation			Top

'How To' Resources

Media radio/tv/Internet - 30 sec. CLA public service announcement available.
Downloads (click: downloads; right click on the format you require; save as...).

Participate - (click: email; tell us - your literacy testimony/comment; join drop site; book donation).

Book Drop Sites/Literacy Partners

ILLINOIS

Gospel Synergy Magazine
Andre’ Carter, Editor-in-Chief
773-461-5095
1507 East 87th Street
Chicago, IL 60614
Books donated to underprivileged children and children of incarcerated parents

The new Bean Scene Too
'coffee house, bistro and internet cafe'
612-588-JAVA
Corner of Emerson & W. Broadway (North)
Mpls, M

Bean Scene
'coffee house, bistro and internet cafe'
612-588-JAVA
2220 W. Broadway (North)
Mpls, MN

Here's Life Inner Cities - Minneapolis/St. Paul
S.A.Y. (Save America's Youth) Yes!
Jane Howe
Youth Development Coordinator
2112 NE Broadway St, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612-338-0999

Hospitality House
Urban Learning Center
Dr. T. Foster
612-522-4485
1220 Logan Ave N.
Mpls., MN

KMOJ Radio 89.9 FM
Kelvin Quarles, General Manager
612-377-0594
1422 W.Lakes St.
Mpls., MN 55408

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Newspaper
Tracey Williams, President
612-827-4021
3744 4th Avenue South
Mpls., MN 55409

NdCAD's Cops-N-Kids/Firefighters-N-Kids Book Giving Program
Gevonee Ford, Executive Director
3401 Penn Avenue North
612-588-2244
Minneapolis, MN 55412
Call for locations

Nordstrom
Mall of America
Bloomington, MN
Beginning Fri., the day after Thanksgiving thru Christmas Eve.
books donated to Salvation Army

QOP (Quantom Opportunities Program)
Mary Ebnet, Program Coordinator
612-668-1764 (Located North High School)
612-377-0150
A program of Summit Academy OIC
935 Olson Memorial Highway
Minneapolis MN 55405
Call for additional locations

Sabathani Community Center
Life Skills (Family Literacy ages 16yrs & up)
Veronica Chatterton, ABE Director
612-821-2396
Sandra Richardson, Director
Family Resources (Hurricane Katrina Relief Hub)
310 East 38th Street
612-821-2300
Mpls, MN 55409

Project Home
a division of the St. Paul Council of Churches
Books for Homeless shelters located at:
Grace Lutheran Church
Progressive Baptist
St. Pascal's
Contact: Kathleen Holla

Tutors Wanted (Mpls school sites)
Neighborhood Involvement Program (NIP) Youth Programs
Kathy Dixon, Youth Programs Director/Academic Support
612-276-1526
612-276-1522 (Gen NIP# North)
612-374-3125 (Gen NIP# South Hdrts)
Located in the Center For Families
3333 N. 4th Street
Mpls, MN 55412

OKLAHOMA

New Dimensions Worship Center (2002-2003 Launch Site Host)
(formerly Higher Dimension Family Church)
Bishop Carlton D. Pearson, DD.
Sylvia & John Brown
Author of Simply Phonics, Simply Reading™
CLA Host Site Coordinator
918-355-4349
918-906-6838 (cell)
P. O. Box 35190
Tulsa, OK 74153
Books donated to families of inmates at the David L. Moss Correctional Center

Literacy Program Training
Sylvia & John Brown
Author of Simply Phonics, Simply Reading™
CLA Host Site Coordinator
918-355-4349
918-906-6838 (cell)
Tulsa, OK 74113

KJMM Radio
The Gospel Train Show"
Mrs. Mary Norwood
918-494-9886
1542 E 54TH ST N
Tulsa, OK 74126

Lively Hope Christian Center
Mrs. Thomasina Allen
918-428-3250
328 W 49TH Street N.
Tulsa, OK 74126

Vision of Faith Church
First Lady Betty Cowins
918-258-7548
8730 So. Lynn Lane Rd.
Broken Arrow, OK 74012

Faith Temple COGIC
Bishop Lorenzo L. Kelly & First Lady Evelyn Kelly
Faithful Minds Literacy Program
605-342-1457
715 Kansas City Street
Rapid City, SD

VIRGINIA

The Suffolk Literacy Council
Gary Williams, Program Manager
757-539-1524
216 North Main Street
Suffolk, VA

WISCONSIN

Cops-N-Kids Reading Program
Officer Julia Burney
262-632-1606
800 N. Villa
Racine, WI 53403

Watch for additional participating CLA partner church, program or Book Drop Site in your city.