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/Gente y Cuentos Community
Become Part of the Story!
We have a wide variety of ways for you to get involved in Spanish and English, virtually or in-person!
Read for Us
Do you love reading short stories? We are always looking for excellent short stories and poems to build our bibliography and offerings for our sessions. If you like to read, we’d love your help. We will provide the materials, you provide your thoughts and recommendations!
Help Write Grants with Us
Do you have a background in grant writing? Work with our Executive Director to assist us in grant writing!
Help Us Get the Word Out
Do you enjoy data entry and outreach? Work with our Communications Manager to get the word out about us and our events and programs!
Become a Coordinator
Do you enjoy reading aloud and are interested in learning the People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos methodology? Our next training is in June! Contact our Program Manager Maria Saiz mariasaiz@peopleandstories.org or fill out our volunteer application for more details
Click here for our volunteer application:
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www.peopleandstories.org/volunteer or email debra@peopleandstories.org for additional information.
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Location:
295 EGGERTS CROSSING RD, LAWRENCE TWP, NJ 08648, US
Mission Statement
People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos (P&S/GyC) is dedicated to opening doors to literature for new audiences. Through oral readings and rigorous discussions of enduring short stories, we invite participants to find fresh understandings of themselves, of others, and of the world. Our programs, offered in English and Spanish, use oral readings and structured dialogues of complex short stories to invite participants to connect their own varied life experiences to the universal themes found in great literature. Now in its 50th year, our program methodology effectively removes obstacles to the rewards of reading, especially for adults and young adults who identify as not having the skill, confidence, or motivation to read independently.
Description
Our Founder, Sarah Hirschman, was born in Lithuania into a Russian Jewish family and educated in France and the United States. A reader fluent in several languages, she was always interested in the reception of literature by groups of different cultural backgrounds. After a five year stay in Colombia and work with urban community groups and development projects, she started People & Stories / Gente y Cuentos in Spanish in 1972 in Massachusetts. She developed a methodology that has effectively connected more than 40,000 lives to literature, with trained coordinators conducting programs in both English and Spanish in various parts of the United States as well as in Argentina.
Read more about Sarah’s award-winning life and the history of People & Stories in this Town Topics article . And, enjoy a tribute to her legacy in our Spring 2012 newsletter
Today, our programs continue to reach youth, adults, and seniors in diverse social service agencies-including residential treatment facilities, prisons, homeless shelters, adult education programs, libraries, senior centers, and alternative schools-on local, regional, and national levels.
CAUSE AREAS
Advocacy & Human Rights,
Education & Literacy,
Seniors
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
Multiple locations Lawrence Township, NJ 08648
(40.2913 ,-74.722 )
DATE POSTED
March 1, 2023
SKILLS
- Literacy / Reading
- Data Entry
- Reading / Writing
- Fundraising
- Grant Writing / Research
- Community Outreach
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- varies with position/interest - email debra@peopleandstories.org or mariasaiz@peopleandstories.org for details