Annual Report Highlights Ontario's Literacy Progress

Annual Report 2011/2012
People Count,
Results Matter.
Paving a Path to a Higher Skilled Ontario

Letter from the President and
Executive Director
Snapshots of Our History
People Count: Our Areas of Strategic Focus
Progress Matters: Evolving to Essential
Skills Ontario
Innovation Matters: Kick-Starting
Dialogue to Find Out What Works
Relationships Matter: Collaborating
for Collective Impact
Conversations Matter: Engaging and
Facilitating Online Collaboration
Auditor's Report
Partners/Affiliates/Committees
Inside this year’s
Annual Report
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Our missionis to inspire and lead the
development of literacy and essential skills solutions
through excellence in collaboration, research and
innovation. Our vision is an Ontario where all adults
have the opportunities and support to gain the literacy
and essential skills they need to reach their potential in
an ever-changing world.
Values/Principles:
We are evidence-driven and understand that results matter•
Because people count, we engage and collaborate with stakeholders to produce•
meaningful results
We test with integrity and• examine innovative ideas in order to be proactive

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workplace skills and the types of skills needed by all adults
to find success in a rapidly accelerating world.
Essential Skills Ontario and the literacy and essential skills
field cannot undertake change alone. It is critical that we
continue to work together with diverse stakeholders to
deliver services in innovative ways that achieve better
results for adults and more sustainable outcomes for the
province of Ontario. To this end, Essential Skills Ontario is
working with representatives from business, labour, the
literacy and essential skills field, employment services and
others, to research and pilot cutting-edge ways of designing
and delivering effective training. We hope more partners will
join us in this important work.
At Essential Skills Ontario, we aim to deliver results that
make a difference in the lives of adults. While we recognize
that our 25th
anniversary is a celebration of the past, it is
even more important to ask: where do we need to go in the
future? Over the next year, you can expect even more from
Essential Skills Ontario that addresses this very question,
including research, briefs, reports, webinars and much more.
Thank you for supporting our organization over the past 25
years. Thank you for staying the course, participating in our
initiatives and helping sustain the field. As we celebrate this
next chapter, we hope you will join us in the next 25 years of
delivering results that positively impact Ontarians.
Anne Ramsay
President and Chair of Board
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e are very pleased to present our special 25th
Anniversary Annual Report—a milestone we are
proud to reach.
The past year has been an exciting, dynamic one for
Essential Skills Ontario. We redesigned our strategy and
changed our name to better reflect the skills adults need
for life and work in the 21st Century. We also embarked on
many notable and thought-provoking research initiatives.
In this report, we look back at our accomplishments and
successes this year and over the past 25 years. We at
Essential Skills Ontario are thankful to be working in a field
that has made such a difference in the lives of adults.
While we draw inspiration from our past, looking to the
future is even more invigorating. Throughout the province,
adult education and training is undergoing profound
changes. The ubiquitous and accelerating nature of
technology, the shift to an increasingly knowledge-based
economy and the integration of employment and training in
the province are just a few of the many issues being faced
by those in the literacy and essential skills field.
These changes undoubtedly bring challenges. Discussions
about the future direction of adult education and training
are rightly taking place amongst programs, support
organizations and policy makers. These changes are driving
all of us to think differently about how literacy and essential
skills training is delivered in the province. Particularly
affected are those adults who would benefit from training
the most, including adults without a high school diploma,
social assistance recipients and those adults who have been
out of education and training for a number of years.
With these challenges come opportunities for new ideas,
inspiration and innovative thinking. At Essential Skills
Ontario, we are working to provide research, reports and
articles, such as Menial No More: Advancing our Workforce
through Digital Skills (see page 10). This report inspired
meaningful discussions around the changing nature of
Lesley Brown
Executive Director
Letter from the President
and Executive Director

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1987
The Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC)
(currently Essential Skills Ontario)
is incorporated, concentrating
initially on four areas: advocacy,
professional and program
development, organizational
development and networking.
‘Literacy on the Move’ is published.
1989
The working group, Network of
Networks, a grouping of 16 regional
literacy networks, is formed - funded
by Ministry of Education.
The organization coordinates
International Literacy Year (ILY)
activities, including the development
of provincial learners committee and
learner–practitioner exchanges.
1990
‘Clear Writing and Literacy’
by Ruth Baldwin is published
to encourage writing that is
better understood by adults
not comfortable with printed
information.
1991
Goal: Ontario Literacy for Deaf
People (GOLD), now Deaf
Literacy Initiative (DLI), is
founded to address the lack of
standards and guidelines in the
Deaf adult learning community.
’Making Links: Developing a
Literacy Network’ by Tannis
Atkinson is published.
1992
The organization and eight other
provincial umbrella groups
receive funds to coordinate the
consultation process on the
Ontario Policy on Adult Education
using the Let’s Talk About Literacy
consultation guide.
2001
The organization produces a
public awareness campaign
entitled, ‘What Did you Learn
Today?’ to encourage people
to learn something new every
day and raise awareness of
literacy and upgrading issues.
1998
The Learners Council, Sectors
Council and the Regions Council are
formed around this time to ensure
representation.
‘Adult Literacy Educator Skills List’
by Mary Ellen Belfiore is published.
1994
Current mission: The Ontario
Literacy Coalition strives
to ensure that all people in
Ontario can successfully
meet the everyday reading
and writing demands they
encounter at home, at work
and in their communities.
2002
Current mission: The OLC looks for the
most effective and respectful ways to help
people who have literacy challenges in
Ontario. We share this information with
people throughout the province. We bring
together many different people and groups
to help us do our work.
The organization hosts Family Literacy
Matters! Symposium to develop a
provincial working group that would bring
the family literacy community together,
initiate provincial action, develop a
definition and vision for family literacy,
and suggest ideas for local action.
1996
‘The Effectiveness of Adult Literacy
Education: A Review of Issues and
Literature Related to Outcome-Based
Evaluation of Literacy Programs’ by
Suzanne Ziegler is published.
1997
The organization changes
its logo for the first time
in 10 years.
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1999
‘Adult Literacy Educator Skills List’
by Mary Ellen Belfiore is published.
1999
Snapshots of Our History

2005
The Provincial Advisory Committee, a
partnership with business, labour, and
training representatives to further the
development of workplace literacy and
essential skills in Ontario, is formed.
The organization leads a public awareness
campaign to encourage people to “Take
a Step” toward upgrading their skills,
volunteering in their communities and
changing their lives.
2006
The organization and AFLO host regional forums to
provide the opportunity to disseminate and discuss
the findings of ‘The State of Family Literacy’ in
Ontario environmental scan, share information and
facilitate networking.
‘Family Literacy in Ontario: Putting it on the Map’
by Action for Family Literacy Ontario and ‘The State
of Family Literacy in Ontario 2006—Result of a
Provincial Study’ by Kim Falcigno and the OLC are
published.
2007
‘Creating a Bridge: A Snapshot of
ESL Literacy in Ontario’ is published.
2009
The Essential Skills Bulletins—a series devoted to information
on essential skills—are launched.
The OLC launches ’Beyond the Book:
Learning from our History’, an important
documentation of literacy as a historical
movement that a critical look at literacy
from the 19th century and continues
its storytelling to include present-day
programming in Ontario.
’Literacy in Ontario’ –the first and only cross-sectoral literacy
data published in the province—is published.
2010
The OLC hosts the Spotlight on Learning:
Becoming Agents of Change Conference, in
partnership with the five eastern provinces’
literacy coalitions to examine how literacy can be
a tool for positive change at work, at home and in
the community.
The OLC receives funding for Collaborative
Development Approaches (CODA): Piloting
Illustrative Workplace Models to develop and
administer 16 workplace literacy and essential skills pilot programs in
varying industries.
The OLC publishes Partnership Framework for Integrated Family Literacy
Planning—Research Findings.
2011
The OLC launches a monthly webinar series, with topics
including solutions-focused techniques, new trends in education
and workforce essential skills.
The Spotlight on Learning website (www.spotlightonlearning.ca)
is launched to house professional development resources, such
as workshops, webinars and downloadable resources.
‘Menial No More: A Discussion Paper on Advancing our
Workforce through Digital Skills’ is published to wide interest.
The ‘International Literacy Day: Social Media Guide ‘ by ABC
Life Literacy Canada, Frontier College and the OLC is published to
raise awareness of adult learning.
2012
In June, the OLC launches a new strategy and rebrands to Essential
Skills Ontario to better align with their work and new direction.
Essential Skills Ontario’s Mission: Essential Skills Ontario inspires
and leads the development of literacy and essential skills solutions
through excellence in collaboration, research and innovation.
Essential Skills Ontario launches a series of four research briefs in the
‘Becoming State of the Art Series’.
2003
The organization launches Action for Family
Literacy Ontario (AFLO), a provincial working
group that would bring the family literacy
community together, initiate provincial action,
develop a definition and vision for family literacy
and suggest ideas for local action.
The OLC conducts a provincial consultation on
workforce and workplace literacy.
2004
The OLC changes its logo.
The organization leads Building
Support and Developing Partnerships
for Workplace Literacy in Ontario,
a project in consultation with labour,
management, sector councils, the
literacy field and government in
workplace literacy to determine how
these stakeholders might work together.
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The strategic repositioning of Essential
Skills Ontario resulted in the tightening
of focus and a renewed commitment to
a single phrase: People Count.
In the midst of policy and programming
discussions, research and initiative
work, we can never lose sight of the
reasons for doing this work: we are
here to deliver real results that make a
difference in the lives of adults in this
province.
Essential Skills Ontario aims to provide
research that is rigorous, timely,
relevant and of the highest quality in
order to inform and advise evidence-
driven decision making around
literacy and essential skills policy and
programming.
Through meaningful partnerships,
we work to bring together relevant
stakeholders who work toward a
specific goal. A community of purpose
wants to see something specific happen
and meets to determine how to do
it best. In other words, it is change-
oriented and emphasizes creating
lasting changes for the
greater good.
Evidence-Driven
Research
Communities
of Purpose
People
Count
Our Areas of
Strategic Focus
People Count

Evidence-
Driven
Research
Essential Skills Ontario works to
find innovative and effective ways
of conducting research, testing new
approaches and sharing information
toward the design and delivery of
training for adults in Ontario that is
based on experimentation and evidence
of what works. We believe that creative
thinking and effective solutions should
be valued and supported.
Policy to
Performance
Commitment to
Innovation
An Environment
of Excellence
Communities
of Purpose
Providing evidence-driven research
to inform and advise policy is
important, yet equally critical is a
corresponding road map for turning
policy into effective practice. Essential
Skills Ontario works to ensure that
practitioners and administrators on the
ground have the skills, information and
resources they need to achieve the
highest level of excellence possible.
We work to encourage systems,
agencies and practitioners to reach the
highest level of excellence in order to
help adults achieve learning goals and
obtain new skills.
Commitment to
Innovation
Policy to
Performance
An Environment
of Excellence
People
Count

Celebrating 25 Years with a New
Strategy and Name
Following a lengthy research and consultation process, the
organization’s strategy was redesigned to better find the
most innovative, effective and efficient ways of providing
adults with the literacy and essential skills they need to find
or keep work, further their education and participate more in
their communities.
To build on this strategy, in the spring of 2012, after 25 years
as the Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC), the organization
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s our lives, communities and workplaces
change in response to evolving
technology, a globalized world and an
increasingly knowledge-based economy, the
skills adults need are different and wider-ranging
then they were 25 years ago—the year Essential
Skills Ontario (formerly the Ontario Literacy
Coalition) first began.
Our organization recognized it was time for
change: we needed to evolve to find better
solutions that produce meaningful and long-
lasting results for adults who need literacy and
essential skills training the most.
2012
Progress
Matters
Evolving to Essential Skills Ontario

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Number of hits on our new
website the day of our launch.
Number of hits in the two weeks
following our launch.
Number of visits in the two
weeks following our launch.
officially launched a new name and brand: Essential Skills
Ontario. The new name and direction better represents the
work of the organization. As Essential Skills Ontario, the
organization can better address all the skills adults need to
thrive in a rapidly-changing world. This evolution also allows
the organization to expand its reach and partner with diverse
stakeholders to find innovative and cross-cutting ways to
address skills challenges.
As part of this exciting transition, we also developed a
new website—www.essentialskillsontario.ca. This
streamlined website hosts Essential Skills Ontario’s
latest research, initiatives and other news impacting the
literacy and essential skills community, our partners and
stakeholders in Ontario.
While there have been many changes over the last year, one
thing remains constant: Essential Skills Ontario continues to
find cutting-edge ways of supporting adults in gaining the
skills they need to reach their potential in the 21st Century.
Journey to Essential Skills Ontario
As part of the launch of our new brand, Essential Skills
Ontario prepared Journey to Essential Skills Ontario, the
organization’s brand story that guides readers through
the evolution of Essential Skills Ontario over the past 25
years. Journey to Essential Skills Ontario, available on the
organization’s website, covers the organization’s rich history,
touching on significant accomplishments and how the
changing world prompted a rebranding of Essential
Skills Ontario.
Brand Launch by Numbers

Menial No More: Advancing our Workforce
through Digital Skills
Menial No More: A Discussion
Paper on Advancing our
Workforce through Digital Skills
suggests jobs often perceived
as ‘low-skilled’ or ‘entry-level’
now need a higher level and
wider range of skills - and that
Ontario’s economy may depend
on our ability to train current
and future workers in these
types of positions. Menial No
More gives recommendations
for how to better prepare the almost one million adults in
Ontario without a high school diploma for the knowledge
economy by—among other recommendations—creating a
more seamless employment and training system and fully
integrating literacy and essential skills education with digital
skills, basic science and job-specific training.
Menial No More resulted in meaningful discussions around
the changing nature of workplace skills in the Toronto Star,
Globe and Mail, OMNI 1 News, Advertising Age, as well
as invitations to speak at engagements across the country
and internationally. The discussion paper was also cited in
numerous reports.
Essential Skills Bulletins
Each year Essential Skills Ontario
produces the Essential Skills
Bulletins to spread awareness
of the importance and relevance
of essential skills to audiences
outside of the traditional literacy
and essential skills field. This past
year, the bulletins covered a range
of different topics, including the
partnerships and possibilities
that can result from successfully
involving essential skills in
employment counseling and literacy training. The Essential
Skills Bulletins have been downloaded over 5,000 times and
continue to play a critical role in helping employment services
and literacy and essential skills programming develop common
understandings of how their services can support each other.
ssential Skills Ontario works to produce
high-quality and relevant research that
aims to find what works in adult education
and training and whom it works for. Over the
past year, we released several publications that
kick-started conversations around what’s working
in Ontario and other jurisdictions, what could be
improved in the delivery of literacy and essential
skills in the province and where literacy and
essential skills training might go in the future.
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approaches and enhance locally-driven partnership models
that leverage our existing infrastructure to improve the way
we coordinate and deliver services.
Literacy and Essential Skills in Ontario
The report Literacy and Essential Skills in Ontario
incorporates the most recent information available on
literacy and essential skills programming trend data in
Ontario. An important resource of information and data for
both practitioners and policy makers, Literacy and Essential
Skills in Ontario is an updated version of Essential Skills
Ontario’s 2009 publication, Literacy in Ontario.
Stronger Together: Toward More Literate
Communities
Stronger Together: Toward More
Literate Communities recognizes
the importance of a society that
expects, encourages and supports
literacy. Released in the spring of
2012, Stronger Together focuses
on four main providers of family
literacy programs in Ontario,
highlighting an often complex
and uncoordinated system that
can make it difficult to determine
whether communities in Ontario
are getting the appropriate suite of literacy services to
meet their needs. Stronger Together suggests that more
statistically-valid research must inform our understanding of
the connections between adults and their children’s literacy
and address some critical questions.
Realizing Local Workforce Potential through
Workforce Planning Boards and Regional
Literacy Networks
Realizing Local Workforce Potential through Workforce
Planning Boards and Regional Literacy Networks describes
how Regional Literacy Networks and Workforce Planning
Boards can work together, coordinate activities and create
strategic partnerships to strengthen regional coordination
in employment and training. The paper provides a basis
for why we need to expand traditional workforce planning

interest groups and sectors—all invested towards raising the
skill levels of Ontarians.
Provincial Advisory Committee
The Provincial Advisory Committee (PAC) on Workplace
and Workforce Literacy has been a steadfast feature of our
organization for the past seven years. The committee is
the first of its kind in the literacy and essential skills field to
bring together representatives from business, labour, literacy
and essential skills, and others to find common solutions to
training in the province.
Family Literacy Partnership Committee
To research how to better support and build more literate
communities, Essential Skills Ontario established the Family
Literacy Partnership Committee to focus on community
coordination and outcomes required to create an integrated
and accessible system that considers all the services
that contribute to creating literate families. Comprised of
representatives from the Ministries of Children and Youth
Services, Education, and Training, Colleges and Universities,
as well as from family literacy programming, the literacy and
essential skills field, and others, this committee was integral
in helping develop the publication Stronger Together:
Toward More Literate Communities.
Signals: A Literacy and Essential Skills
Screening Tool
In cooperation with Bow Valley College, Essential Skills
Ontario is piloting Signals—an online screening tool
specifically designed to be used by employment counselors
ssential Skills Ontario believes that
meaningful change happens through
better cross-sector coordination than
from the isolated intervention of individual
organizations. This means meaningful
collaboration that goes beyond traditional
partnerships and networks to find real solutions
to social problems.
To this end, we are working to create more
meaningful relationships with those both
inside and outside the traditional literacy field,
including business, labour, policy organizations,
employment services and other social service
organizations, to work together in an effort to
raise the skill levels of adults in Ontario. Over
the past year, Essential Skills Ontario has been
invited to speak at over 20 engagements across
Canada and internationally to diverse audiences.
Public Policy Committee
The Public Policy Committee is comprised of knowledgeable
and experienced stakeholders who provide keen insight and
expertise to help inform key public policy and government
relations initiatives for Essential Skills Ontario. Though not a
representative body, the committee draws from a variety of
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and their clients. The tool is simple to
use—in 10 to 17 minutes it accurately
estimates a client’s skills in document
use, as the degree of proficiency in
document use is closely associated to ability in other skills.
Signals is designed to be quick to administer and score,
providing employment counselors a safe and reliable
way to potentially refer a client to literacy and essential
skills training, better connecting these services across the
province.
International Literacy Day (ILD)/
International Adult Learners’ Week (IALW)
Essential
Skills Ontario
joined forces
with ABC Life
Literacy Canada,
Frontier College
and others to
create social
media guides to
help promote
both International Literacy Day (September 8, 2011) and
International Adult Learners’ Week (IALW) (March 24-April
1, 2012). These social media guides, contained pre-made
Tweets, Facebook posts, discussion questions and more, in
order to promote events happening across the province and
Canada and help raise awareness of the importance of
adult learning.
Partners for Prosperity: Elevating
Ontario’s Workforce
Essential Skills Ontario’s Partnering for Prosperity initiative
worked to find ways to better connect employers with
workplace literacy and essential skills training. The findings
of this project have culminated in the Elevate Ontario
website—www.elevateontario.ca (in construction)—that
helps connect employers to the kinds of workforce literacy
and essential skills (WLES) training they need to recruit a
skilled workforce and/or upgrade the skills of their existing
workforce. Through Elevate Ontario, Essential Skills Ontario
helps employers:
Assess training needs and determine if essential skills•
training is right for them
Arrange for workplace training•
Tailor training to employer’s needs•

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hen Essential Skills Ontario (the
Ontario Literacy Coalition at the time)
began cultivating our online presence,
our philosophy was simple: social media is a
two-way platform to engage with people, have
conversations and ask questions while raising
awareness of the importance of literacy and
essential skills solutions. Essential Skills Ontario
employs social media—Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube, etc.—to share information, connect
and stay updated with what’s happening in adult
education and training in the province, across the
country and around the world.
In an increasingly networked world, organizations
must leverage online connections to increase
impact and drive change. Since we first began,
Essential Skills Ontario has cultivated a strong
following on our social media outlets, built
interactive websites, developed a free online
webinar series featuring a wide range of topics
and speakers and much more.
essentialskillsontario.ca
Along with our new name and strategy, we developed
a new, user-friendly and informative website—
www.essentialskillsontario.ca. Visit it to read about Essential
Skills Ontario, our work and our latest news and events, as
well as information on literacy and essential skills.
E-ssential News
Essential Skills Ontario’s new
free monthly e-newsletter,
E-ssential News, highlights
the latest initiatives, research
and events from Essential
Skills Ontario, across Canada
and the world. Streamlined
to include only the most
relevant information,
E-ssential News is quickly
becoming the literacy and
essential skills field’s most
informative newsletter.
Spotlight on Learning Webinar Series
To date over 1,500 people have participated in Essential
Skills Ontario’s Spotlight on Learning webinar series, which
provides free webinars on a wide range of topics that appeal
to audiences both inside and outside the traditional literacy
and essential skills field. Topics have included: solutions-
focused coaching techniques, clear writing, labour market
agreements and workforce essential skills. There are many
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more interesting webinars to come, so please visit our
Spotlight on Learning website (www.spotlightonlearning.com)
for more information.
Social Media
Essential Skills Ontario has been building a strong online
community to foster dialogue around literacy and essential
skills for a number of years by engaging in numerous social
media outlets, including Twitter (@ES_Ontario), Facebook,
Linkedin and YouTube. Social media allows the organization
to share and learn from followers about important initiatives,
research, opportunities and other news as well as build
“communities of interest” around particular topics related to
literacy and essential skills.
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Percentage of Canadians aged 16 and older
(21.7 million people) used the Internet for
personal reasons last year.
Statistics Canada
Percentage of Canadians with at least some
post-secondary education used the Internet
in 2009, compared with 66% among those
with no post-secondary education.
Statistics Canada
Percentage of the worldwide workforce that
will be represented by mobile workers by
2013. The world’s mobile worker population
will pass the one billion mark by the end of
this year. international data corporation
Number of Twitter accounts made every
second. twitter
Technology by Numbers

Management’s Responsibility for the
Summary Financial Statements
Management is responsible for the preparation of a
summary of the audited financial statements in accordance
with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles.
Auditor’s Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the summary
financial statements based on our procedures, which were
conducted in accordance with Canadian Auditing Standard
(CAS) 810, “Engagements to Report on Summary Financial
Statements”.
Opinion
In our opinion, the summary financial statements derived
from the audited financial statements of Ontario Literacy
Coalition for the year ended March 31, 2012 are a fair
summary of those financial statements, in accordance with
Canadian generally accepted accounting principles.
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS
Licensed Public Accountants
Toronto, Ontario
May 31, 2012
The accompanying summary financial statements, which
comprise the summary balance sheet as at March 31, 2012
and the summary statement of operations for the year then
ended, are derived from the audited financial statements of
Ontario Literacy Coalition/La Coalition De L’alphabétisation
De L’ontario for the year ended March 31, 2012. We
expressed an unmodified audit opinion on those financial
statements in our report dated May 31, 2012.
The summary financial statements do not contain all the
disclosures required by Canadian generally accepted
accounting principles. Reading the summary financial
statements therefore, is not a substitute for reading the
audited financial statements of the Coalition.
Auditor's Report
To the members of Ontario Literacy Coalition/
La Coalition de l’Alphabétisation de l’Ontario:

Summary Balance Sheet As at March 31, 2012
2012
$
2011
$
Assets
Current assets
Cash 85,333 866,071
Accounts and grants receivable 50,628 69,546
Prepaid expenses and accrued interest 8,564 9,421
144,525 945,038
Marketable securities, at fair value 539,588 543,656
Property and equipment 22,604 27,678
706,717 1,516,372
Liabilities
Current liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 222,753 694,270
Deferred operating grants - 348,605
222,753 1,042,875
Net assets
Internally restricted 233,953 206,021
Unrestricted 250,011 267,476
483,964 473,497
Total liabilities and net assets $706,717 $1,516,372
Summary Statement of Operations As at March 31, 2012
2012
$
2011
$
Revenues
Operating and program grants 1,172,859 2,676,725
Donations and fundraising 14,413 91,747
Investment and miscellaneous income 16,071 40,912
1,203,343 2,809,384
Expenses
Staffing 647,342 660,651
Materials and office supplies 54,766 171,955
Travel and meetings 24,938 213,354
Professional services 215,805 1,152,096
Facilities and utilities 104,229 284,413
Communications, marketing and outreach 65,266 154,980
Governance 40,609 49,037
Amortization 9,074 7,619
Special initiatives 30,847 -
1,192,876 2,694,105
Excess of revenues over expenses for the year $10,467 $115,279

Funders
Government of Canada, Human Resources and Skills Development
Canada (HRSDC), Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES)
Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU)
Ontario Trillium Foundation
Essential Skills Ontario’s Partners and Affiliates
ABC Life Literacy Canada
Alliance of Sector Councils
AlphaPlus
Alternative Learning Styles & Outlooks (also)
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE)
Brigid Hayes
Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE)
Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators (CAMA)
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW)
Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME)
Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD)
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
Centre for Workplace Skills
Erin Roberts, Zzeem
E-Channel
First Work
George Brown College
Kingston Literacy and Skills
Labour Education Center (LEC)
Literacy Council of York-Simcoe
Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC)
Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)
Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP)
PTP Adult Learning and Employment Programs
Sue Folinsbee
Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESL)
The Centre for Literacy
Toronto Adult Student Association (TASA)
Toronto District School Board (TDSB)
Provincial Advisory Committee on
Workforce and Workplace Literacy (PAC)
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW)
Canadian Manufactures and Exporters—Ontario Division (CME)
Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD)
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
Centre for Workplace Skills
Literacy Northwest
Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators (CAMA)
Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC)
Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
The Essential Skills Bulletins Advisory Committee
Jacqueline Gibson, YMCA of Greater Toronto
John Mitteregger, Job Skills
Sam Sanfilippo, Toronto District School Board
Valerie Currie, Fanshawe College
Wendy Olson, Dryden Literacy Association
Family Literacy Advisory Committee
Audrey Spence, Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities (MTCU)
Carrie Seward, Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS)
Charmaine Perera, Ministry of Education
Chris Beesley, Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy (MTML)
Cynthia Abel, Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS)
Dave Page, Macaulay Child Development Centre
Inge Saczkowski, Niagara Falls Public Library
Jacqueline Lynch, York University
Joanne Davis, Toronto District School Board (TDSB) Parenting and
Family Literacy Centres (PFLC)
Kim Oastler, Alternative Learning Styles & Outlooks (also) and Action
for Family Literacy Ontario (AFLO)
Lorri Sauvé, Project READ Literacy Network and Action for Family
Literacy Ontario (AFLO)
Lorel-Ann Martel, Mid North Network for Adult Learning
Linda Shohet, The Centre for Literacy
Margaret Eaton, ABC Life Literacy Canada
Susan Switzer, Superior Children’s Centre
Public Policy Advisory Committee
Anne Ramsay, Executive Director, Project READ; President and
Chair, Essential Skills Ontario’s Board of Directors
Annemarie Wesolowski, Executive Director, Literacy Northwest;
Director, Essential Skills Ontario
Partners/Affiliates/Committees
Essential Skills Ontario would like to thank our funders, partners and committee members for taking the time to lend
their expertise and guidance to support our initiatives over the past year. With your continued support we were able
to break new ground this year—and we look forward to continuing these relationships in the future.

Nunavut Literacy Council
PEI Literacy Alliance
Quebec English Literacy Alliance—Skills for Success
Saskatchewan Literacy Network
Yukon Literacy Coalition
National Organizations
Canadian Literacy and Learning Network (CLLN)
National Adult Literacy Database (NALD)
Frontier College
The Centre for Literacy
Donors
Bernadette Beaupre and Associates Consulting
Linda Trilskey
Ontario Courthouse Librarian Association
Stovel Rivers Advisors Inc.
Teachers Life Insurance Society
Current Board of Directors
Anne Ramsay, President and Chair
Deb Hotchkiss, Vice President and Vice-Chair
Anthony White, Governance Officer
Ed Shiller, Secretary
Richard Knudson, Treasurer
Lise Hansen
Michael Shaughnessy
Patricia Ashie
Michael Donsky
Marsha Josephs
Bernadette McKenzie
Annemarie Wesolowski
Current Essential Skills Ontario Staff
Lesley Brown, Executive Director
Susanne Smith, Director of Finance and Administration
John MacLaughlin, Manager of Research and Business Development
Allison Mullin, Manager of Communications and Marketing
Ghazal Niknazar, Senior Project Coordinator
Urszula Mazur, Administrative Coordinator
Amber Haas, Communications and Marketing Coordinator
Ron Samson, Research Assistant
Chris Beesley, Executive Director, Metro Toronto Movement for
Literacy
Greg Gulas, Executive Director, AlphaPlus
Joanne Kaattari, Co-Executive Director, Community Literacy
of Ontario
Linda Shohet, Executive Director, The Centre for Literacy
Mary Wiggin, Executive Director, Ottawa Community Coalition
for Literacy
Michel Robillard, Executive Director, La Coalition ontarienne
de formation des adultes (COFA)
Micheline McKay, Founder, Micheline McKay and Associates
Sarah Elliott, Policy Analyst, Ontario Chamber of Commerce
Pam Frache, Ontario Federation of Labour
Regional and Sectoral Networks In Ontario
Adult Basic Education Association of Hamilton
College Sector Committee for Adult Upgrading
Community Literacy of Ontario
Laubach Literacy Ontario
Literacy Link Niagara
Literacy Link of Eastern Ontario
Literacy Link South Central
Literacy Network Northeast
Literacy Network of Durham Region
Literacy Northwest
Literacy Ontario Central South
Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy
Mid North Network for the Coordination and Development
of Adult Learning
Ontario Association of Adult and Continuing Education
School Board Administrators (CESBA)
Ottawa Community Coalition for Literacy
Peel-Halton-Dufferin Adult Learning Network
Project READ Literacy Network Waterloo-Wellington
QUILL Learning Network
Simcoe/Muskoka Literacy Network
Tri-County Literacy Network
Coalitions In Ontario
Deaf Literacy Initiative (DLI)
La Coalition ontarienne de formation des adultes (COFA)
Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (ONLC)
Pan-Canadian Coalitions
Literacy Alberta
Decoda Literacy Solutions (formerly Literacy BC)
Literacy Partners of Manitoba
Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick
Literacy Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories Literacy Council
Literacy Nova Scotia

65 Wellesley Street East, Suite 503
Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 1G7
Tel 416.963.5787 | Fax 416.963.8102
Visit us online at
essentialskillsontario.ca

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