The John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation has provided increased operating support to LCNV since 2006, helping the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia reach more students seeking to improve their lives and the lives of their family members through literacy and English language education.
"The John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation is pleased to support the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia," says the Foundation's grant consultant, Suzanne Martin, "because it is unique in that it provides very low cost regularly scheduled beginning-level literacy education for low income adults who are at the lowest literacy level and therefore are not eligible for public school system literacy classes." The John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation was created in 1964 by Pearl Gunn Fowler in memory of her late husband, John Edward Fowler, a Northern Virginia businessman. In recent years the Foundation has awarded about $1.2 million in grants annually. The Fowler Foundation is particularly interested in funding smaller, community-based organizations that are addressing the following issues: homelessness, hunger, at-risk children and youth, adult literacy, free medical care, seniors aging in place, and job training and placement. |
