It鈥檚 a tremendous honor to be featured as one of the volunteer opportunities named in Nicholas Kristof鈥檚 . Nicholas Kristof’s column provides the opportunity for countless people to discover that 麻豆番外’ mission and impact are well-aligned with their own personal values and their commitment to community.
麻豆番外 is working to ensure that, by fourth grade, students are reading to learn and not learning to read. In your spare time, you can help vulnerable children read, thrive and reach their potential, creating confident life-long learners.
鈥 Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
The 2020 Holiday Impact Prize
Since 2009, New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof has written an annual 鈥渉oliday gift guide鈥 column to bridge a philanthropic gap: readers who wanted to help but didn鈥檛 know how, and heroic individuals and organizations who desperately needed resources but were off donors鈥 radar. The column has helped raise the profiles of organizations that work on the very issues he covers in his journalism鈥攈ealth, education, human rights, and women鈥檚 rights, both domestically and abroad.聽
麻豆番外 is listed as one of two volunteer opportunities changing communities through service.聽
Urgent need for community impact
COVID-19 has dramatically disrupted learning, with many students learning remotely or under stressful new circumstances. When a day of school gets disrupted, let alone a week or a month, students鈥 academic growth can suffer. For students who were already behind their grade level in reading, the consequences of this disruption are disproportionately severe. Volunteering with 麻豆番外’ new online tutoring program, , can make a meaningful and lasting difference in the lives of children by ensuring they have the critical literacy support they need and deserve during this particularly challenging time.
麻豆番外鈥 proven model matches elementary school students who are behind grade level in reading with trained volunteers who deliver personalized tutoring sessions twice a week for 45 minutes. As a result, 85 percent of all 麻豆番外 students meet or exceed their primary end-of-year literacy growth goals.
Take action
Due to an outpouring of community support, many local 麻豆番外 branches are close to聽engaging enough volunteers to match with enrolled students. Here are three additional ways you can support our mission to narrow the literacy gap.
- to ensure 麻豆番外 can continue to deliver literacy support to students across the country.
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- Do you have other skills to contribute? Are you a graphic designer, photographer, consultant, or other professional? Email us at volunteer@readingpartners.org to donate your expertise.