Mission Statement



The Detroit Literacy Coalition (DLC), formerly the Detroit Area Lifelong Learning Coalition (DALLC) is a partnership of organizations in southeast Michigan devoted to helping adults read, write, and acquire the basic skills for success in today's global and interconnected world. The DLC believes in a fully literate society and functions to support, promote, and ensure the availability and accessibility of literacy services to metro Detroit functional illiterates through the collaborative efforts of its members. The DLC is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.

The Detroit Literacy Coalition is proudly sponsored by:

  • ALLY FINANCIAL
  • AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK (ACN)
  • BLACK UNITED FUND (BUF)
  • COMERICA
  • DOLLAR GENERAL
  • IBM
  • MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (MDE)
  • PROLITERACY
  • TARGET
  • UNITED PARCEL SERVICE (UPS)
  • WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (WSU)

The Detroit LIteracy Coalition is one of the partners of

  • COMMUNITY TREATMENT CENTER EAST (CTCE) CHERRY HEALTH
  • DETROIT READS
  • DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS - ADULT EDUCATION
  • DETROIT RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES
  • MACK ALIVE
  • MICHIGAN WORKS!
  • NAOMI'S NEST
  • OASES MINISTRIES
  • READING WORKS
  • SIENA HEIGHTS LITERACY
  • SELF-HELP ADDICTION REHABILITATION (SHAR)
  • WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY 
  • WSU ANOTHER CHANCE
Detroit Literacy Coalition receives Yelp Foundation Grant
DLC Yelp Foundation Grant Recipient

The Detroit Literacy Coalition (DLC) expresses its heartfelt thanks to all its community supporters and constituents who voted in the YELP Foundation Gives Local grant contest!!! The DLC is so grateful to all of you who voted to help us win the $2000 grant prize.  This grant will go a long way toward the purchase of instructional materials, support of staffing needs and advancement of our goal of a literate Detroit one learner at a time. 

Yelp Gives Local!

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2016/17 WIOA State of Michigan Award to DLC

The Workforce Development Agency, State of Michigan, Adult Education Department has awarded Detroit Literacy Coalition a grant for 2016/2017 year under the Adult Learning WIOA Core Programs to support adult literacy programs for those in instituionalized settings.  The funds will support women in the Naomi's Nest facility in Highland Park, Michigan and men in the Community Treatment Center East (CTCE).

VOTE for DLC - a finalist in the Yelp Foundation Gives Local grant contest

Subj: Vote for us today in the Yelp Foundation Gives Local grant contest 

Great news! Detroit Literacy Coalition has been nominated as a finalist in the Yelp Foundation Gives Local grant contest. Now we need our community to vote for us to win a grant of up to $5,000.

Go to yfgiveslocal.org to cast your vote once per day from November 29 to December 9. No personal donation is required to participate in the contest and it only takes a minute.
 
We would so appreciate your support as a grant will allow us to make a change in the life of the educationally disadvantaged in the metro Detroit area. 

 Thank you for your continued support!

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    Detroit Literacy Coalition receives Yelp Foundation Grant

    Detroit Literacy Coalition receives Yelp Foundation Grant

    The Detroit Literacy Coalition (DLC) expresses its heartfelt thanks to all its community supporters and constituents who voted in the YELP Foundation Gives Local grant contest!!! The DLC is so grateful to all of you who voted to help us win the $2000 grant prize.  This grant will go a long way toward the purchase of instructional materials, support of staffing needs and advancement of our goal of a literate Detroit one learner at a time. 

    Yelp Gives Local!

    2016/17 WIOA State of Michigan Award to DLC

    The Workforce Development Agency, State of Michigan, Adult Education Department has awarded Detroit Literacy Coalition a grant for 2016/2017 year under the Adult Learning WIOA Core Programs to support adult literacy programs for those in instituionalized settings.  The funds will support women in the Naomi's Nest facility in Highland Park, Michigan and men in the Community Treatment Center East (CTCE).

    VOTE for DLC - a finalist in the Yelp Foundation Gives Local grant contest

    Subj: Vote for us today in the Yelp Foundation Gives Local grant contest 

    Great news! Detroit Literacy Coalition has been nominated as a finalist in the Yelp Foundation Gives Local grant contest. Now we need our community to vote for us to win a grant of up to $5,000.

    Go to yfgiveslocal.org to cast your vote once per day from November 29 to December 9. No personal donation is required to participate in the contest and it only takes a minute.
     
    We would so appreciate your support as a grant will allow us to make a change in the life of the educationally disadvantaged in the metro Detroit area. 

     Thank you for your continued support!