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8 people are interested
Help us expand the impact of our work as a webmaster!
ORGANIZATION: Access Books Bay Area
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8 people are interested
Access Books Bay Area is looking for an individual who believes in our mission of bridging the literacy gap for the Bay Area's most vulnerable children living in poverty, and who wants to help us expand our work as webmaster for our wordpress website. As webmaster, you would help Access Books Bay Area to keep our online presence effective and well maintained, and by doing so enable us to reach more people as both donors and volunteers! Our programs serve children and schools heavily impacted by the adverse academic effects of the COVID shutdowns.
Experience with wordpress back end required, including managing widgets, blog posts, forms, plugins and web design and layout. Coding in html5 and css also occasionally required. As webmaster you would attend a short weekly meeting with our communications team, and then work approximately 1-2 hours/week on your own to maintain the website and post content provided by the communications team.
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About Access Books Bay Area
Location:
80 Harriet Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty by providing high quality, high-interest, culturally relevant books, and a transformed school library space that invites students to spend time and read. We believe that books change lives, and that for children living in poverty, the school library is the best way to connect children with pleasure reading books. Studies have shown that reading for pleasure is one of the single greatest indicators of future academic success, yet the state of California provides no dedicated funding for school libraries, and many of the schools in the Bay Area have not funded their school libraries for decades, leading to out-dated collections and unattractive facilities. Our organization changes lives by making sure that the school library is an attractive place full of wonderful, interesting, recent, and culturally relevant books that will help them become lifelong readers.
Description
We provide books to low-income schools where approximately 90 percent of students live at or below the poverty line. Most students at the schools we serve are children of color and children of immigrants. Our organization provides brand new, hardcover, high quality books to school libraries and gently used books to teachers for classroom libraries, as well as improving the library space by painting colorful, reading-based murals and providing new comfortable reading furniture.
We complete 2-3 library renovation projects each academic year, each taking place on a Saturday from 9am - 2pm. Volunteers from partner community service organizations collect the gently used books to be donated and provide volunteers for the project day.
We serve school around the bay area, although most of our work to date has been concentrated in the south bay and peninsula areas. We have renovated nine elementary and middle school libraries in high poverty areas to date, and have applications pending for four more, one of which will be renovated this spring.
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This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
February 24, 2022
SKILLS
- Website Programming
- Web Design
- Web Design / UX
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training
- Will vary depending on grant deadlines. Approximately 5-15 hours per month on average.
- Experience with web development for nonprofit organizations would be great!