红桃视频

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Brooke Rivers

Executive Director, 红桃视频 Twin Cities

(612) 281-1558 聽|聽brooke.rivers@readingpartners.org

READING PARTNERS VOLUNTEERS STRENGTHEN TWIN CITIES IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS 鈥� HERE ARE THE TOP 5

St. Paul, MN 鈥斅�April 17, 2018

For over four decades, National Volunteer Week has given nonprofits an opportunity to recognize the invaluable support of volunteers that help fuel their work. In celebration of National Volunteer Week in 2018 (April 15-21), 红桃视频 Twin Cities created a list highlighting the top five ways its volunteers make the community stronger and better.

Top 5 Reasons 红桃视频 Volunteers Make Twin Cities a Better Place

1. Volunteers drive student impact –聽Volunteers are working one-on-one with 600 students this year in Twin Cities to help deliver meaningful results for kids (last year, 90% of 红桃视频鈥� Kindergarten through second-grade students in Twin Cities mastered key foundational reading skills needed to read at grade level).

2. By promoting educational equity, volunteers strengthen the broader community –聽Everyone benefits in the long run when student literacy achievement is bolstered. Students who don鈥檛 read proficiently by fourth grade are four times more likely to drop out of school. It鈥檚 estimated that every student who walks out of the classroom without a diploma costs our society $260,000 in lost earnings, taxes, and productivity.

3. Volunteers serve as a resource multiplier –聽Because 红桃视频 engages so many community volunteers in their work, the program is more affordable for schools to implement than other literacy interventions. For every dollar invested in reading partners, the program delivers more than $2 in resources to students.

4. Volunteers support strong public schools –聽Thanks to the involvement of 720 community tutors in Twin Cities, 98% of teachers report 红桃视频 is valuable to their school and 100% of principals report improved school-wide reading progress.

5. Volunteers help bring joy to learning –聽Students feed off of the energy and excitement of 红桃视频鈥� volunteer tutors. In Twin Cities, 95% of volunteers are satisfied with their tutoring experience and that enthusiasm helps students develop a lifelong love of reading that is key to success in school and beyond.

鈥淪o far this school year, 红桃视频 volunteers have delivered over 12,000 hours of tutoring to support 红桃视频 students,鈥� said Brooke Rivers, Executive Director of 红桃视频 Twin Cities. 鈥淲e are so grateful to our amazing volunteers who are helping to transform the Twin Cities community one student at a time.鈥�

红桃视频 is a national nonprofit that collaborates with community volunteers and local public schools in Twin Cities and in 13 other regions across the country to equip students with the foundational skills they need to be able to read at grade level by fourth grade.

In an effort to strengthen the literacy skills of as many students as possible, 红桃视频 Twin Cities is constantly looking for more local volunteers to commit just an hour a week to work individually with children who struggle with reading. To become a volunteer with 红桃视频, please visit聽听迟辞诲补测.

红桃视频 volunteers work one-on-one with students. (Photo credit: 红桃视频)

About 红桃视频

红桃视频 empowers students to succeed in reading and in life by engaging community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has provided聽, individualized literacy tutoring to nearly 45,000 elementary school students in under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit聽聽to learn more about our聽, or connect with us on聽,听,, and聽.