Cultivating the Soil

ELAWR’s Messaging Campaign - including postcards, posters and short videos

In 2018 ELAWR was awarded a Children’s Services Grant for a Prescription for Literacy project 

which focused on influencing health care providers as a universal access point for young children and their families. 

As it developed the pilot became the Face to Face Initiative, making significant progress until the pandemic hit. 

Subsequently the initiative has been taken up nationally by the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation's ‘Early Words’ project.

In 2021 ELAWR received a GOS funding envelope from the Lyle S. Hallman Foundation. 

This funding allowed ELAWR to rebrand and focus our efforts on engaging

a wider audience to influence the influencers outside of the ‘usual suspects’. 

ELAWR rebranded to ELLA and engaged in applying the lesson’s learned since our inception -

widening our reach with Generator and Convening Events, video’s, podcast production

and innovative resources. We are now focused on co-learning and co-creating across

our community with an equity lens, and applying our learnings from social change theory,

targeted universalism and the Presencing Institute’s work on leading transformation for

social, ecological, and system regeneration.

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