Success Story Community Literacy of Ontario, Barrie

“Community Literacy of Ontario is a provincial network serving 100 literacy agencies all across Ontario. We have effectively used technology over the past five years to save our organization in its internal operations and to save our members programs time and money in their professional development.  Given that CLO is governed by a provincial board of 12 regional directors, it costs our organization a great deal of money to hold face-to-face Board meetings. Our organization is very small and face-to-face meetings were really stretching our budget to the breaking point. We tried conference calls, but had limited success because they aren’t very user-friendly for many people. Based on this, we tried out holding our meetings using live, state-of-the-art online software called “Centra” with voice-over-Internet capability. Now, we hold most board meeting and all committees meetings on Centra. Our Board and staff all love this interactive ways of meeting and it saves us a ton of money.”