DeKalb County Learning Link

DeKalb County Community Foundation has provided community leadership around education since 2002 when we received a Lilly Endowment CAPE grant to create TerraFirma, an early literacy initiative. The literacy program providers that received funding from the initiative were able to embed many new early literacy strategies into their ongoing programs when, by design, TerraFirma ended in 2008.

DeKalb County Learning Link was created to expand the community’s focus beyond early literacy to encompass encouraging educational opportunities for people of all ages.
Learning Link creates crucial links between early childhood, K-12 and lifelong education. How? By connecting community leaders with people who provide educational programs to work toward a common goal – raising the educational attainment of DeKalb County citizens.

Learning Link is not about what’s wrong with education or funding new programs. Instead, it aligns the valuable educational programs that are already in place and provides smoother connections between them.

Learn more about DeKalb County Learning Link at www.dekalblearninglink.org or contact DeKalb Learning Link Director Judy Sorg at the community foundation office, (260) 925-0311.