The Morgan Hill-based Learning and Loving Education Center, a non-profit organization that provides education and skills for previously underserved families, has received a $7,000 Community Action Grant award from the American Association of University Women Education Foundation.
The one-year award will help the agency provide bilingual technology-based educational, vocational and language acquisition training to more than 250 English-language learners.Â
The center is led by Executive Director Pat Davis, a religious woman from the Sisters of the Presentation order of the Roman Catholic Church. The center offers a comprehensive program that works to improve lives for immigrant women and their families through education and outreach. During the past 12 years the center has grown from one literacy course with 20 students to serve more than 250 women and children per year with a variety of education and training services including five levels of adult English-literacy courses, job skills training, parenting, health, nutrition, and pre-literacy education for pre-K children. The AAUW is providing resources for The First Step- Beginning English Skills for Success program.
The AAUW foundation’s awards are highly competitive, as one of the world’s largest source of funding for graduate women. The foundation provides funds to advance education, research and self-development for women and to foster equity and positive societal change.
