- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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6 people are interested
Start the Book Angels Program in your city
ORGANIZATION: Book Angels
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
6 people are interested
Book Angels is looking for volunteers to start and run this easy to manage program in cities other than Chicago. Book Angels sets up free classroom lending libraries in schools where too many children read below grade level.
Main responsibilities are:
1) Contacting/working with the Recipient Schools,
2) Contacting/working with the Book Donor Schools and
3) Logistics - picking up, storing and delivering the books.
Book Angels will provide a tool kit with strategies and materials that have worked in other cities.
More opportunities with Book Angels
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Book Angels
Location:
46 Knox Circle, Evanston, IL 60201, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to help students
who are reading below grade
level learn the pleasure of reading
and improve their reading skills
by instilling recreational reading
habits through donated classroom
lending libraries.
Description
- BOOK ANGELS - a not for profit program - helps at-risk students improve their reading skills. We collect new and gently used children's books for classroom libraries in underserved schools.
- We collect new and slightly used fun and general interest books for students in Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade.
- The books are distributed to public schools where too many of the students read below grade level and poverty levels are high.
- The books we receive are used to establish special classroom libraries of hundreds of books, giving the students the opportunity to read fun, general interest books at home and in the classroom. Studies have shown that when kids read books they WANT to read, they will read more. And the more they read the better readers they will become. And the better readers they become - the better students they will be.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
May 24, 2016
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A