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Nov 3, 2026
Portage Connect 11-03, Michael Evans, Kalamazoo Literacy Council
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13:15John HartHOST
Would you mind kind of going into that a little bit and letting me know what that means, what that initiative is?
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13:25Michael EvansGUEST
And what that means is that whatever neighborhood you're in, whatever zip code you're in, you have the services that you need in order to be able to reach your literacy and language goals.
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13:35Michael EvansGUEST
We have a model where we partner with organizations and we build what we call community literacy centers.
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13:41Michael EvansGUEST
And this is where we would partner with a nonprofit or other agency to develop learning spaces for our adult learners to have proper spaces to be able to learn in partnership with those organizations.
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13:52Michael EvansGUEST
Those literacy centers, we have 15 literacy center partnerships throughout the county, but they're designed to make sure that literacy is in your neighborhood as opposed to you traveling to your neighborhood.
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14:03Michael EvansGUEST
So our neighborhood-based initiatives, such as the Edison Education is Honor Initiative, is designed to make sure that when we look at a neighborhood that may have increased needs because they have a broader range of literacy needs within the community, that it's not looking at it as one program.
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28:25John HartHOST
How can people get involved and help out in this mission of helping others? Well,