1. Agassiz Elementary School Chicago, Mentoring, Math tutoring, Equipment.<\LI>
   
2. Fray Bartolomė de Las Casas, Legal Literacy Project:Centro de Derechos Humanos, Chiapas, MX


3. San Miguel PEN Scholarship Program For more information, see San Miguel PEN Scholarship Program in English  Español


4. Freedom of Expression and Linguistic Rights. We collaborate with International PEN in support of writers who are unjustly persecuted for the non-violent expression of their opinions and for the use of their native languages. We welcome your assistance in writing letters in support of writers and of freedom of expression. Please contact us if you would like to participate in this program.


5. Publications. We collaborate with publishing houses located in Mexico and in Argentina which publish the works of writers who would otherwise not be published because their works do not appeal to mainstream or conventional publishers or because of cultural, political, or other forms of repression. Two publications in 2008:
   

NUESTRA VOZ: VOLUME 4 (NOTRE VOIX, OUR VOICE) Iride M. Rossi de Fiori, Ed. Biblioteca de Textos Universitarios VOLUME 4 of an anthology of the Women Writers Committee of International PEN, which consists in a selection of literary texts written by women coming from various PEN Centers throughout the world. This edition features the writings of Nedda G.de Anhalt, Mariela Baeva, Susan Blanshard, Cristina Castello, Sampurna Chattarji, Bernice Chauly, Moon Chung-Hee, Maria Mihai Cioaba, Anne C. Clarke, Mercedes Cortazar, Rita Dahl, Kieran Finnane, Helena Fiori, Maria Antonieta Flores, Jacqueline Goldberg and many more.
 
BOSQUE DE MATEMATICAS/A FOREST OF MATHEMATICS by Lucina Kathmann. A bi-lingual story and math book. This book grew out of Kathmann’s mentoring work at Agassiz Elementary Public School in Chicago and her bilingual story book about Payshapes and the Bear éxeps y el Oso  reissued in 2009 by Chiron Books.
 

6. Theatre Arts. We gave support to ten community based and educational theatre programs (Chicago and Honduras) that employ dramatic literature for literacy education and the theatre arts for community building.


7. Proyecto Salesiano ‘Chicos de la Calle de Guayaquil’ In concordance with our special focus on children for 2008, our board member Martha Neira developed a new project for our support. This project focuses on literacy education for the ‘street children’ of Guayaquil, Ecuador.


8. Dramatic Art Project. A collaboration with Steve Leeper of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation and the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum to explore the employment of the dramatic arts to promote peace and nuclear arms reduction.

Our 2008 Financial Report has been filed with the Attorney General of the State of Illinois. This report is available to the public. (The 2009 Financial Report will be available June 2010.) Please contact the Attorney General or the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois for a copy of the report and the status of CNJP. Please contact Nick Patricca at patricca@sbcglobal.net for further information on our projects and how you might contribute your talents and resources to our work.
 
We believe that legal and economic literacy are essential components of literacy itself and necessary for the proper exercise of citizenship in our contemporary world.
 
Our board of directors is a working board. 100% of monies contributed to CNJP is used in support of our mission and programming.
 
Thank you for your attention.