Reading Mentor

Details
Dates Volunteer is Needed: 
Ongoing recruitment
Number of Volunteers Needed: 
200
Description of the Volunteer Opportunity: 

Looking for a community service opportunity that utilizes your current skill set, but is FUN!? OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program trains and places senior adults as reading mentors with elementary students in public schools. You’ll meet with the same child weekly throughout the school year to read, talk, and write stories. No teaching experience is required; we emphasize your patience, compassion, and humor. By bringing the joy of reading to a young mind, you will also be a role model, a mentor and a friend to a student K-4! We will schedule your training and pay for your background check clearance. Join US!

Areas of Interest: 
Children and Youth
Education and Literacy
Seniors
Great for: 
Adults
55+
Who Will Be Impacted Through This Project: 

Volunteer older adult reading mentors and elementary (K-4) students will be positively impacted due to the special relationships established in weekly one-on-one sessions.

Is This an Ongoing Opportunity?: 
Yes
Minimum Age of Volunteers: 
50
Nonprofit Will Provide: 

OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program will provide free training; handbook and start-up resource bag; and background check clearance.

Last Updated: Aug 10 2020
Address of Project Site
3301 Menaul Blvd NE Suite #18
Albuquerque
New Mexico
87107
Contact Info
Phone: 
(505) 884-4529

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The Center for Nonprofit Excellence provides these volunteer opportunities as a service to our community and does not assume any responsibility for the validity of such postings. To ensure accurate and up-to-date information, please contact the organization who posted the opportunity.

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