Category Archives: Education and Literacy
Raising A Reader provides high-quality, age-appropriate books and shared reading techniques to low-income families to ensure that all children enter school with the tools they need to succeed. We have a number of ongoing volunteer opportunities including book sorting, bag … 
Books for the Barrios
http://www.booksforthebarrios.org
BOOKS for the BARRIOS (BftB) is an all volunteer non-profit orgaization 501(c)(3)) that began in 1981 and operates out of its headquarters in the San Francisco East Bay, in Concord, Northern California. BftB aims to improve the quality of education …
The Salvation Army Kroc Community Center
The Kroc Center After School Program offers daily homework tutoring, a nutritious snack, recreation and enrichment activities for students in grades 1st-5th. Enrichment activities include but are not limited to Art, Music, Dance, Literacy, Science, Swimming, and Computers. Volunteers would …
Stanford Historical Society
The Stanford Historical Society conducts oral history interviews with faculty, staff and other individuals regularly to document the history of Stanford University. As a volunteer-supported organization, we have the following volunteer opportunities: conducting interviews, copy editing, indexing, writing biographies or …
Y-Scholars Program at the YMCA-PG&E Teen Center
The Y-Scholars Program is a free college preparatory after school program that works with first-generation college-bound students in grades 9-12, preparing them to pursue higher education. We are looking for individuals to serve as mentors to our students, offering their …
Reader’s Gym
Readers Gym is a nonprofit organization originally founded by middle school and high school students who are committed to dedicate time and effort in helping others to maximize their learning abilities. The founders understand that not everyone are given the …
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
The East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) is a nonprofit community development organization that builds healthy, vibrant and safe neighborhoods in Oakland and the greater East Bay. We currently have volunteer opportunities to support our Volunteer Income Tax Assistance …
Boost! West Oakland is a non-profit offering no-cost, one-on-one tutoring to K-5 students at Lafayette Elementary School in West Oakland. Our kids WANT to be tutored and look forward each week to that special one-on-one time. Each tutor is provided …
Helping2Read
Helping2Read is a organization that helps deserving kids learn to read English. The Organization helps kids globally and locally in the bay area. Looking for volunteers who can help teach kids reading either in person in bay area locations or …
Upwardly Global
Today there are more than 1.8 million immigrants in the U.S. who are college-educated, have the legal right to work, but are unemployed or significantly underemployed. In their home countries they were engineers, doctors, scientists, accountants, and nonprofit professionals. In …
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