- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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118 people are interested
Prepare materials for our youngest readers!
ORGANIZATION: Raising A Reader
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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118 people are interested
Raising A Reader (RAR) has over 2,700 sites across the country and serves more than 120,000 children and families annually. As volunteers, you will be helping us to prepare and organize materials for shipment across the US to our implementation sites.
Activities vary based on need, but can include:
- Assembly of special collections
- Stickering/labeling books
- Placing tags on the bags
- Assembly of training manuals
- ...and more
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About Raising A Reader
Location:
330 TWIN DOLPHIN DR STE 147, REDWOOD CITY, CA 94065, US
Mission Statement
RAR helps children and families aged 0-8 develop, practice and maintain home-based literacy routines critical for school success.
Description
Through a network of more than 2,700 community partners (school systems, libraries, community agencies and others) across 34 states, in 2015 alone we reached nearly 130,000 children and families.
Since our inception in 1999, we have helped more than 1.25 million families build and maintain reading routines in their homes, with special attention to those at highest-risk for educational failure.
Develop- Raising A Reader helps parents develop the habit of sharing books through RAR’s train the trainer model.
Practice-To practice the habit of sharing books, each week children bring home a bright red book bags filled with award-winning books.
Maintain- Raising A Reader connects families to libraries to maintain the habit of borrowing and sharing books.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
489 ValleyMilpitas, CA 95035
DATE POSTED
May 10, 2017
SKILLS
- Child Development
- Literacy / Reading
- Financial Literacy
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 14
- 2 hours
- Must obtain parent/guardian signature if under 18 years of age.