About Prince Edward Learning Centre

PELC is committed to providing lifelong learning experiences that are inspired by program participants.

1. Deliver high-impact innovative learning programs that increase literacy, build essential skills, contribute to educational upgrading, and assist with access to employment training.
2. Expand program reach and online training to underserved individuals and communities across the region.
3. Engage learners to identify systemic issues, increase civic participation, and recommend policy responses that address community needs.

PELC is committed to facilitating community partnerships and engaging with organizations and community leaders on cross-sectoral initiatives to address systemic issues that impact learners.

1. Strengthen relationships with existing community, regional, and provincial partners in the education, essential skills development, and pre-employment training fields to build a strong and rational learning and employment sector.
2. Monitor the external environment, including the labour market, to ensure PELC is proactive in responding and adapting to changing and emergent community needs.
3. Strategically engage with organizations and initiatives to address and offer solutions to complex community issues that impact learners such as: poverty, precarious employment, affordable housing, and food security.

PELC is committed to building a strong, resilient, and sustainable organization that can innovate and respond proactively to emerging needs.

1. Implement Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion policies and practices into all areas of the organization.
2. Invest and support staff by implementing employer best practices, offering education, training, and professional development opportunities, and by enhancing their capacity to deliver excellent programs and services.
3. Recruit, retain, and celebrate volunteers who contribute to the success of the organization.
4. Develop a fundraising strategy with the goals of diversifying funding and increasing unrestricted funding to support dynamic and innovative programs and the infrastructure to sustain them.
5. Invest in growth by investing in admin support, human resources management, and physical premises/location to meet current and emerging needs and opportunities.
6. Ensure that governance policies and practices include a focus on leadership development, equity and diversity, systemic change, and succession planning.

PELC is committed to developing an organizational impact measurement framework and finding creative ways of sharing our impact.

1. Embed a culture of learning and evaluation to better understand, measure, and communicate PELC’s overall impact.
2. Collect and tell stories that capture the impact that the PELC community has on the lives of its learners.
3. Strengthen communication efforts to expand reach, build awareness, and highlight the impact of PELC’s learning initiatives and advocacy efforts.