Adelante's ongoing needs

ADELANTE'S on-going needs

Here is a general list of items that Adelante will need to procure at some point. If you see anything on the list that you feel you would be able to help out with please don’t hesitate to contact me so we can make arrangements. Once something has been acquired I will take it off the list so as not to double up.
Digital projector for computer
Printer

Flash Drive
Photo copier
Postage for mailing materials and supplies to Nicaragua from the U.S.
Pencils/Pens/Spiral notebooks purchased and sent to Nicaragua

Books teachers and students will use for education

Directions: To all, the selected books listed below are all great resources for teachers as well as students. If you are looking for another way to donate, please consider purchasing these books at an online store of your choice (http://www.amazon.com/ and http://www.half.com/ are just two options) and either sending them directly to Nicaragua or to:

ADELANTE

16702 SE 11th st.

Bellevue, WA 98008

If you would like to send them to Nicaragua please contact me personally for directions in mailing items internationally.

If you decide to purchase one for us, please drop me an email to let me know, so that I can take it off the list and we don’t end up with multiple copies (mateo.g@adelantenow.org). Thank you again for considering donating and please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions.


4. First Words in English: Book 1

5. Five-Minute Activities: A Resource book of short activities (Cambridge Press) (ISBN#: 0-52-139781-2)

9. Longman Basic Dictionary of American English (ISBN#: 0-582-33251-6)

10. Longman Dictionary of American English (ISBN#: 0-13-170344-7)

11. Lessons From Nothing: Activities for Language teaching with limited time and resources (ISBN#:0-521-62765-6)

12. Operations in English: 55 Natural and Logical Sequences for Language Acquisition (ISBN# 0-86-647074-3)

14. Practical English Usage (ISBN#: 0-19-442-0981)

16. Teaching English Worldwide: A practice guide to teaching English (ISBN#: 1-882483-77-4)

18. Any other Spanish - English/English - Spanish Dictionary

Once again thank you all for your continued support, it is through your charitable contributions that this organization is able to provide the services that it does!

Mateo Garibaldi

Executive Director/ADELANTE Founder

Mateo.g@adelantenow.org

http://www.adelantenow.org/

Adelante update #1

2.27.08

These updates are intended to give you a general idea of ADELANTE’s progress. Please, after reading feel free to contact me with any questions, suggestions, or ideas. I am always more than happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the organization. E-mail: mateo.g@adelantenow.org. If you have general questions please feel free to e-mail: info@adelantenow.org

Included in this update:

· 501 (c)(3) status update

· ESF/EFL certification information

· Ensuring the future of ADELANTE

As of February we have submitted our application for pro-bono legal service through an organization called Washington Attorneys Assisting Community Organizations (WAACO). We are anxiously awaiting a lawyer to take up our case review our 501 (c) (3) application so that we can submit it to the IRS. We did not have a board meeting in the month of January because I was attending S-TESL (The School of Teaching English as a Second Language) for the entire month. It was a 4 week intensive course that gave me understanding of what the term intensive means. Although it was much more work that I did in College, it was well worth it. We completed 4 courses in the 4 weeks including Theory and Application, Methods of Language Acquisition, Teaching Grammar to ESOL Students and Materials Selection and Development in TESOL. I have never had so many consecutive sleepless nights in my life that were so worth it. For anyone that is considering ever teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) or EFL (English as a Foreign Language) I highly recommend this class. Yes, it was in incredible amount of work, but every single thing we learned was directly practical for use in the classroom. With this certification I now feel more than ready to begin teaching my own classroom of students in Nicaragua.

As you can imagine one thing that we are continually thinking about, is securing the future of the organization. We are thinking about this in a few different ways. First, Austin, a friend of ADELANTE, who is getting certified as a financial consultant right now, has offered us his services to create a portfolio for ADELANTE’s investments. The second way that we are looking at securing ADELANTE’s future is to secure donors that are dedicated to donating yearly for 5 or 10 years. Both of these will enable us to plan for a future that is more financially viable and stable. If you have any questions, concerns or ideas please let me know (mateo.g@adelantenow.org).

This is Mateo signing off. Please look for our second update on March 13^th.

Mateo Garibaldi
Executive Director/Adelante founder
www.adelantenow.org