YOU CAN BE A READING MENTOR FOR CHILDREN IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Literacy is essential to successful learning.
Literacy Volunteers of Rensselaer County’s Everybody WINS! Power Lunch program strives to nurture in children a love of reading. As caring adult role models, Everybody Wins! reading mentors make a positive and lasting difference in children’s lives.
The Everybody WINS! program pairs elementary school children with volunteer reading mentors from area businesses and the local community.
Mentors are matched one-to-one with students and spend one lunch break per week at a nearby school reading with their student partners.
Our corporate partners have confirmed that participation in Everybody WINS! boosts employee morale. It offers a simple yet very meaningful way for businesses to get involved in their community.
Monetary donations from participating companies ($300 – $1,000) help support mentor orientation sessions, handbooks, and a part-time site coordinator at each school, ensuring that volunteers and children have a positive experience.
To read a Times Union article about the program, click here.
Questions? Call Judith Smith at 274-8526 or email LitVolDirector@aol.com today. For training dates, see the Events Calendar.
Contributions to the Annual Appeal in any amount will help LVORC continue to provide free literacy services to adults and children in Rensselaer County and nearby communities. Donations can be made payable to LVORC and sent to LVORC, 65 First Street, Troy, N.Y. 12180. Donations can be made by using the link on this website at any time. Thank you!
