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15 people are interested
Field Trip Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: New Haven Reads
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15 people are interested
New Haven Reads is seeking volunteers to help run field trips at our community book bank. Pre-Kindergarten through 5 th grade classes from area schools come to visit New Haven Reads, where they listen to a story and each student gets to choose five books to take home for free. Field trip volunteers will read a story to the class and help the students shop for books. Staff support will be available at all times.
Currently we are in need of a Field Trip Reader for Fridays at 11am at our Willow Street location. We are seeking weekly volunteers for the 2018-2019 school year. We ask for a minimum commitment of one day per week. Trips last approximately 1 hour. Last year we distributed over 10,000 books through field trips. Your help will ensure that this program continues to thrive, and will help us spread our mission to share the joy and power of reading.
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About New Haven Reads
Location:
45 Bristol St, New Haven, CT 06511, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is "to share the joy and power of reading".
Description
New Haven Reads provides an environment where children and adults have access to free books and children have access to tutoring to increase their literacy skills and academic performance.
We function as a community book bank distributing over 100,000 free books annually. Books are donated by individuals or community groups. We take books in good to excellent condition; we especially like children's books! We also pack boxes of books for social service agencies, homeless shelters, nursery schools, and individual schools and classrooms.
New Haven Reads offers free one-on-one after school tutoring to the children of Greater New Haven in grades K-12. We place emphasis on serving the most economically and educationally disadvantaged children and families who otherwise would not have access to these resources. This year over 530 students came in once or twice weekly for tutoring in reading with over 200 children still on the wait list.
We also have SAT prep class, Pre-K and Kindergarten early readiness programs, and workshops.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
45 Bristol StNew Haven, CT 06511
DATE POSTED
October 29, 2018
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Minimum commitment of 1.5 hours a week
- Background check process explained at NHR