Family Literacy Involvement Program
Award Recipients
The Family Literacy
Involvement Program (FLIP) helps develop early learners’
reading and comprehension skills through family-centered activities
designed to be explored in the home. Congratulations
to the following museum and library partners who were selected
as FLIP award recipients.
Museum
Partner
Library
Partner(s)
Sam
Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (Norman)
Pioneer
Library Services
National Children's
Museum (Washington, DC)
District of
Columbia Public Library
The
Magic House, St. Louis Children's Museum (MO)
St.
Louis County Library
St. Louis Public Library
Lied
Discovery Children's Museum (Las Vegas, NV)
Las
Vegas Clark-County Library
Please Touch
Museum® (Philadelphia, PA)
The Free Library
of Philadelphia
Children's
Museum of Cleveland (OH)
Cleveland Height-University Heights Library
Cleveland Public Library
Cuyahoga County Public Library
The Iowa Children's
Museum (Coralville)
Coralville
Public Library
The Exploration
Station. . .A Children's Museum (Bourbonnais, IL)
Bradley Public
Library
Children's
Museum of Pittsburgh (PA)
Carnegie Library
of Pittsburgh
Imagine It!
The Children's Museum of Atlanta (GA)
DeKalb County
Public Library
Each National
Training and Implementation Awardee Team will receive:
Designation as the "official"
FLIP partner in your community with promotion on the official
FLIP Kits Web site, FLIPKits.org, launching September 9;
Twenty complete FLIP Kits for immediate
implementation in your community;
Complete and free access to design
plans for 432 Kits (201 in English and Spanish, 15 in Chinese
and Vietnamese);
Promotional materials and other
resources needed to announce the
availability of FLIP Kits and to encourage the public in
your community to participate;
Two all-expense-paid (max. $850/person)
trips to participate in the May 18, 2011, FLIP National
Training and Implementation Workshop in Houston; and
Relative exclusivity of FLIP implementation
in your community, meaning that FLIP materials will not
be provided by the Children's Museum of Houston to any other
organization within an acceptable, clearly defined circulation
range.
