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Spots available: 4
Sort children's books for kids in need
ORGANIZATION: Access Books Bay Area
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Spots available: 4
To sign up for this opportunity, please fill out the sign-up form on our website: https://accessbooksbayarea.org/volunteer-opportunity/help-us-sort-and-process-donated-books/
We need four volunteers to help us sort and stamp donated books for little libraries, and for donating to the classroom libraries of Washington Elementary, our next school project. This volunteer opportunity will take place in Palo Alto, outdoors. Masks will still be required. The exact address will be provided after you sign up. Thank you!
You must be fully vaccinated to volunteer with Access Books Bay Area. Please submit your proof of vaccination (photo of vaccine card, screen shot of CA vaccine verification) when you sign up.
Sign up form: https://accessbooksbayarea.org/volunteer-opportunity/help-us-sort-and-process-donated-books/
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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.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
contact us for exact locationPalo Alto, CA 94301
DATE POSTED
October 22, 2021
SKILLS
- Literacy / Reading
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 2 hrs