Mountain Lake PBS Receives Grant from International Paper for Education Outreach
DATE: March 9, 2010
CONTACT: Joanna Cummings
PHONE: 518-563-9770 ext. 127
EMAIL: jcummings@mountainlake.org
Plattsburgh, NY - Mountain Lake PBS is proud to announce that it is a recipient of an International Paper Company Foundation grant. The $1,000 grant will provide funding to purchase books for the education and outreach department’s Imagine Yourself Reading program
The Imagine Yourself Reading program provides literacy workshops for parents, teachers and caregivers of youngsters from birth to 3rd grade. The program’s workshops teach research-based literacy strategies, provide techniques for effective "read-alouds," and teach ways to use televised programming for literacy skills. The workshops stress the importance of early learning for future language development, encourage the use of multimedia to teach reading skills, and provide participants with ideas for using activities that children enjoy to increase motivation.
“The International Paper Company Foundation grant will enable Mountain Lake PBS to give out more books at the workshops, which is very important to our literacy strategy,” stated Mountain Lake PBS Director of Education and Outreach Jane Owens.
International Paper, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, is a global forest products, paper and packaging company with offices in Ticonderoga, New York. The company contributes to local communities through its corporate donations, in-kind contributions and through the International Paper Company Foundation.
Mountain Lake PBS applied for the grant from the foundation to support its literacy workshops, and recently learned it had been awarded the funding.
For more information about the International Paper Company Foundation, call 1-800-236-1996. For information on the literacy workshops provided by Mountain Lake PBS or to participate, contact Director of Education Jane Owens at 1-800-836-5700 ext. 130.
Mountain Lake PBS—located in Plattsburgh, NY—produces high quality programs for local and worldwide audiences. The station reaches over 3.9 million viewers in New York, Vermont, Quebec and Ontario. We also provide a host of education and outreach services for learners of every age.
Mountain Lake’s mission is to celebrate and strengthen the civic and cultural life of the Mountain Lake region by providing distinctive telecommunications programs and services that inform, educate, involve and entertain. The station devotes at least eight hours a day to programming for children from preschool through school age. Visit the Mountain Lake website at www.mountainlake.org
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