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Each year, Book'em gives 100,000+ books to underserved youth through partnerships with 180 schools and community organizations. The majority of these books are donated!

Book'em can use new and like-new children's books in great condition - from board books to chapter books (ages 0-18).

Many of the books Book'em receives are collected through book drives. From a book collection box set out at a lemonade stand, to a classroom project challenging classmates to bring in books from home, to a multi-office corporate competition, book drives come in all shapes and sizes. No matter what it looks like, it's a wonderful way for kids and adults alike to give back to the Nashville community.

Organize a book drive in conjunction with an event, holiday, or just for fun! It can be done with your office, school, place of worship, team, civic group, club, family, neighborhood, or anywhere else you may be involved. Check out our tips and resources on our website at https://bookem-kids.org/give-books/ but feel free to make it your own! The general guidelines we typically give can be found on our website, bookem-kids.org/give-books/. If you have any other questions about organizing a book drive, please email books@bookem-kids.org or give us a call at (615) 255-1820.

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Be The Difference Today! Volunteer to Lift Literacy Nationwide!

Join us in making a profound impact on a child's life. Volunteer as a tutor and help lift literacy in our community. Your time and effort can transform a child's future, instilling the love of reading and learning. Sign up today to be the change and make a lasting difference!

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Your dedication can change lives. Thank you for your support!

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At Doorstep Library, we’re dedicated to bringing the magic of books and the joy of reading directly into the homes of children who need our support.

With 1 in 4 children in the UK leaving primary school unable to read or write properly, we recruit and train in-person and online volunteers to introduce children from under-resourced areas to the pleasure of reading.

What’s Involved?
As a Doorstep Library reading volunteer, you’ll visit the same families via Zoom every week with eBooks to share with the children and encourage their love of reading.

You will:
• Handpick eBooks from our online portals based on the children’s age, interests, and reading level
• Join families via Zoom with your volunteer partner for 20-minute reading sessions
• Make notes after the session to keep track of how the child/ren are progressing

Our unique home-based approach allows our volunteers to build trusting relationships with families, helping them to connect with the community and equip them with the skills they need to succeed later in life.

When and Where?
You can be based anywhere in the UK to become a Doorstep Library online volunteer.

• Time commitment: One evening a week (Regular Volunteer), one evening every other week (Semi-Regular Volunteer) or once every 3 weeks (Stand-In Volunteer) during school term times
• Hours per week: 2
• Days: Our projects run on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Thursdays from 4:30pm – 6:30pm

Skills/Experience Needed
• Be able to make a regular weekly commitment or once every 3 weeks for a Stand-In Volunteer during school term time
• Be compliant with our safeguarding procedures, complete an Enhanced DBS, Child Barred List check, and provide 2 references
• Enjoy spending time with children and believe in education for all
• Have comfortable fluency in English
• Be non-judgmental and respectful of a variety of lifestyles and children’s learning
• Have excellent communication skills – be able to listen to families and communicate effectively with Project Leaders (including via text/emails/calls with Doorstep Library staff)
• Be confident using technology – for connecting with families viz Zoom and completing records
• Be organised – be able to multi-task in a multi-faceted role comprising of much more than solely reading to children
• Be reliable – always attending a pre-agreed session and giving plenty of notice in advance of absences
• Be friendly – to build good relationships with families, your volunteer partner and the rest of the team
• Be confident – to lead the session or mentor a new volunteer
• Be patient, persistent and flexible – tailoring your approach to each family’s needs

Doorstep Library is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and all those it comes into contact with. All volunteers undergo rigorous safer recruitment processes including specified interview questions, a DBS check, and the collection of written and/or verbal references. Safeguarding training is a mandatory part of the induction process for all volunteers, and they are expected to always adhere to our safeguarding policies and procedures. 

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We are seeking volunteers for this year's Fall Festival booth! We serve a vegetarian menu of Fried Mac & Cheese, Fried Green Tomatoes, Fried Green Beans, and Lemon & LemOrange Shake-Ups! All proceeds benefit the shelter pets we serve, and the people who love them.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Monday Midday	6	n/a	n/a
Monday Afternoon	6	n/a	n/a
Monday Night	7	n/a	n/a
Tuesday Midday	6	n/a	n/a
Tuesday Afternoon	no limit	n/a	n/a
Wednesday Midday	6	n/a	n/a
Wednesday Afternoon	6	n/a	n/a
Thursday Midday	6	n/a	n/a
Thursday Afternoon	6	n/a	n/a
Saturday Midday	6	n/a	n/a
Saturday Afternoon	6	n/a	n/a
Saturday Night	8	n/a	n/a

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Volunteer Tutors are the cornerstone of UPLIFT's Kids At Heart Tutoring Program. The goal of UPLIFT is to leverage community support through volunteerism and provide low-income students with individualized attention in the form of tutoring and mentorship.

Tutors meet with students either virtually or at tutoring sites and primarily assist with homework help in reading, writing, or math. On-site tutors meet students at partnering locations and sign in and out with identified Site Coordinators. Virtual tutors record tutoring sessions and send them via Dropbox. UPLIFT provides monthly tutor training opportunities and technical support from the Program Manager. All Kids At Heart Participants are welcome to UPLIFT's annual end-of-school-year picnic celebration.

Opportunity Requirements & Important Notes

Onboarding Process: Attend a virtual orientation training, complete the online application, take a fingerprint criminal background check, and complete one online video training on mandated reporting.

Physical Requirements: UPLIFT accommodates Spanish speaking volunteers and those who are hard of seeing by offering forms in large print as well as in Spanish. UPLIFT offers virtual tutoring and ADA accessible tutoring locations for tutors with mobility consideration.

Attire: Casual attire

Required Skills/Experience: There are no required skills or experience to volunteer with UPLIFT! Volunteers who enjoy problem-solving, mentorship, and uplifting youth may enjoy this volunteer opportunity very much. Volunteers will need to have access to a reliable computer and high-speed wifi for virtual volunteering.

About UPLIFT San Diego

UPLIFT is dedicated to improving community equity with free services to San Diego's most vulnerable, helping house our homeless neighbors and academically advance low income students, lifting all to their highest potential!

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Reading UP! is about sparking curiosity in young people, encouraging them to play & explore through reading, building their self confidence by reading aloud, and even teaching young people about consequences and & developing better decision making skills.
We've been incredibly successful by going into classrooms and reading Pop-Up Books for grades PreK-3rd Grade and then Choose Your Own Adventure Books for 4th Grade up through Middle School.
We've been partnering with another Nonprofit, Children Read Atlanta, to provide books but their primary focus is children Aged 0-5.
Our focus for Reading UP! is Elementary School & Middle School for this Program.
It's been SHOCKINGLY Successful so our goal is provide books for the classrooms and kids to keep for themselves.
To do that, we need your help-- Please support our efforts by providing new & gently used books such as Pop Up Books (like the Wide Mouthed Frog or whatever other ones you enjoy), Mix-and-Match Board Books, Books by Robert Sabuda(Good for all ages), & Choose Your Own Adventure Books (bundles available at https://www.cyoa.com/collections/enchiladas ).
You can have them shipped to Volunteeroes at PO Box 466 Pendergrass, GA 30567.
We'll happily record our members reading and giving the books you donate to the classes and have them give a Thank You Video for the books you donate.
Thank you in advance for your time & consideration! :)

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To encourage families to volunteer in school and share their life experience in Mandarin speaking environment to the students in PCS.

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Imagine the best of two worlds: you read and discuss a popular science book -- and it counts as a volunteering to help Ukraine.

We look for people who can help to select STEM books for Ukrainian kids, negotiate copyrights for them, [help to] organize translation and publishing process. You can also look for sponsors, who want to put their names on the translated book.

Details are in the Benevity project "Publish STEM books and videos in Ukrainian". Below is the description for your convenience:

Talented Ukrainian teenage students are in peril. Currently, over 5 million of Ukraine’s 7.5 million students have been forced to relocate, with over 1 million becoming refugees abroad. Two years of the full scale invasion come right after the two years of COVID pandemics, when many kids missed out on the normal school process.

The war added a new, often overlooked aspect to the problem: an almost complete void in popular science books and videos in Ukrainian language. Until recently, Russian books and websites were widely available in Ukraine. Since the popular science market is relatively small and low-profit, it was completely dominated by books and videos in Russian.

As the war goes on, Ukrainian students, teachers and parents become more and more traumatized by anything related to the aggressor. They do not want to use the Russian language or books with Russian or Soviet symbols – not to mention the fact that the import of new books from Russia has stopped completely.

We risk losing an entire generation of kids who would grow up without food for their curiosity. Since the popular science books and videos are low-margin, we believe that nonprofit organizations like Nova Ukraine should come to the rescue. The cost to print a popular-science book or dub an hour-long video in Ukrainian is about $10,000. Subtitles for a video can be commissioned for less than $1,000.

Nova Ukraine plans to translate and publish several dozen books and videos on popular science (STEM, including psychology and biology) targeting children and young adults 10-17 years old who are not yet proficient in English. We already allocated $240,000 for this initiative and hope to raise much more.

We will serve not only the most gifted kids who compete in olympiads, but also the next tier, those who are potentially able to succeed in technical colleges. Our goals are to help them learn about genuine science while also strengthening their sense of community, including through common language and common reading backgrounds.

Since 2014 Nova Ukraine has funded a number of STEM classes, summer camps, vocational lectures and other activities where such children can interact. In 2023 we spent about $600,000 for such projects, and we aim to double our impact in 2024. Notably, our educational initiatives attracted support from esteemed donors, including Fields Medal winner Volodymyr Drinfeld.

You are warmly invited to join our cause as a donor or volunteer. Please, write to the user STEM at novaukraine.org

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The Library Foundation of Hillsboro (LFH) has an opportunity for an individual interested in performing Marketing functions to connect the LFH's Programs to the community. This is to augment our current community-facing presence on social media, our website and the LFH quarterly newsletter.

The LFH is an all-volunteer organization, spending 100% of donations and grant funds to serve the Hillsboro Community. This volunteer marketing position will expand the visibility of the Foundation and its mission in the Community, also allowing more individuals to participate in and benefit from LFH-sponsored programs.

https://libraryfoundationhillsboro.org/

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The Pyjama Foundation are seeking volunteers to assist with putting together our fundraising "Pyjama Day Kits" which will be sent to workplaces, schools and fundraisers who have registered to host National Pyjama Day. National Pyjama Day is the Foundation's flaship fundraising event which aims to raise awareness and funds for children living in foster care.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Pyjama Day Kit Packing	10	n/a	n/a