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Join the Aspire Education Project Board - Fundraising Chair Needed
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Aspire Education Project is looking for Board of Director members. Specific current need is for a Fundraising Chair. If you have a passion for helping nonprofit organizations meet their potential through funding and development this is the position for you.
Fundraising Chair
With the success of virtual CRB and the impact of COVID-19 we are in need of a Fundraising Chair to help us continue supporting the Oakland and San Francisco elementary students that are being left behind in this virtual learning environment. We need your help to reach more donors and tap the potential networks of our Board and connected community in the Bay so that we can fund more virtual sessions aimed at increasing literacy levels of under-resourced students in the Bay Area. See below for a little more about what we do at Aspire.
CRB
Of all the success stories of '19-20, there was probably no greater success than that of our Community Reading Buddies (CRB) program. For 25 years, CRB has been connecting youth volunteers in the Bay Area with low income preK-3rd graders for a summer of one-on-one reading. Mentors not only work to close the early literacy gap, they also receive the type of social-emotional training, experience, and support they need to be successful, independent adults. Thanks to a new partnership with award-winning digital literacy platform BookNook, COVID-19 didn’t interrupt our plans. In fact, it opened the door to new possibilities. Youth Mentors were able to use a dynamic platform that regularly assessed Buddies’ growth and quickly adjusted to their areas of growth. Through that new virtual programming, our 137 Buddies grew by an average of more than a third of a grade level in literacy in only seven weeks. Over a full year, that would be more than two years of literacy growth! More than that, 93% of Youth Mentors grew in at least one critical social-emotional trait. But this is not only exciting for these students. It’s exciting for the potential of CRB’s future. For years, in-person logistics have made it impossible to expand beyond a summer program. Now equipped with a proven virtual program, CRB can go year-round. And the community is asking for it. Though we accepted 137 Buddies, over 900 Oakland families expressed interest.
More opportunities with Aspire Education
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Aspire Education
Location:
101 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607, US
Mission Statement
The mission of Aspire Education is to ensure every student in the Bay Area has access to an educational mentor.
Description
Aspire Education provides transformative tutoring and supplemental education programming to students across the Bay Area. This work takes several different forms, including providing high quality private tutoring with individual students on a sliding scale, partnering with schools and fellow nonprofit organizations to design custom tutoring programs for historically underserved students, and mobilizing and training middle and high school students to mentor young readers one-on-one in literacy through our Community Reading Buddies program.
CAUSE AREAS
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WHERE
1721 Broadway, Ste 201Oakland, CA 94612
DATE POSTED
November 28, 2020
SKILLS
- Business Development
- Donor Management
- Fundraising
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- 3-4 hrs/month - 1 full BOD meeting every other month and 1 fundraising committee meeting on off months
- Board of Directors commitment package