EMBRACING THE CHILD - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA
Embracing the Child has a need for a great many volunteers: book reviewers, reading tutors, readers, technical support, writers, PR and Marketing, Grant writers and Fundraising. If you are interested in discussing any of these volunteer positions, please email or call 215-576-5603

Reading Families Program - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA
The Reading Families Program is a Family Literacy Initiative for motivating Head Start children and parents to read together through the Lucky Readers' Club. Parents can get tutoring, and attend Reading Aloud workshops. Children get free books in this reading-incentive program for families, and RSVP volunteers receive emergent literacy training.
For more information, email Janis Glusman or call 610/834-1040 extension 16

RECORDING FOR THE BLIND & DYSLEXIC, King or Prussia - Volunteers Needed Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic has an ongoing need for volunteers to read and record academic textbooks for students who cannot read standard print because of a visual impairment, dyslexia or other physical disability. There are also opportunities for volunteering in the community with the Educational Outreach program, the Speakers Bureau and with the Fundraising department through special events and marketing. If interested please contact us. For more information, E-mail: Mary McDermott or call: 610 265-8090 ext. 31

Growing a Volunteer Tutor Program: Engaging Communities to Support Schools. Tutor programs hold great promise for helping children succeed in school, but getting a newprogram off the ground can challenge even the most dedicated organizers. Our new publication, Growing a Volunteer Tutor Program: Engaging Communities to Support Schools, offers advice for surviving the critical start-up year.

Cross-Cultural Solutions: India, Africa, and Latin America--Volunteer in humanitarian service programs. Work with social service pioneers, immerse yourself in a vibrant new culture, empower local communities and contribute to vital global issues, such as healthcare, education, and social development. The basic length of a trip is 3 weeks with an option of adding more time.

SCHOOLS ONLINE is a 501(c)3 public benefit organization. Its mission is to help ensure that all schools have effective access to the communication and information resources of the Internet. The organization donates Internet equipment to schools and facilitates teacher training and support. Since its founding in 1996, Schools Online has been a catalyst, helping more than 5,400 schools gain online access.

THE NATIONAL JEWISH COALITION FOR LITERACY is the organized Jewish community's vehicle for participation in the America Reads Challenge. Their goal is the mobilization of tens of thousands of tutors and reading partners into our nation's public schools, wherever possible in partnership with existing childhood literacy programs. For more information, visit their web site at http://njcl.net

VolunteerMatch (http://www.volunteermatch.org) is an online matching service for volunteers and nonprofits. More than 100 opportunities are featured in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, San Francisco, San Jose, Twin Cities, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Volunteer opportunities are also available in communities nationwide. To date, we have matched more than 8800 volunteers!

Nonprofits and public sector agencies register their organization and list volunteer opportunities directly on the web site. Agencies visit http://www.volunteermatch.org, click on Post, and post information about the organization and its opportunities. All information is entered and updated by the agency, bringing the full power of the Internet to participating organizations. The service is free to both volunteers and nonprofits.

Volunteers simply input their zip code and receive a list of volunteer events that fit a variety of interests and schedules. They then click on an opportunity of interest, email the nonprofit, and get involved.

VolunteerMatch is funded by individuals, corporations and foundations. The service has received national nonprofit endorsement from Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross, and United Way, as well as political endorsement from senators McCain and Kerrey.

America's Promise - The Alliance For Youth - America's Promise works to mobilize national and local commitments from the private and public sectors, and more generally raise awareness of the importance of these five key resources to America's youth. America's Promise is designed to be a fluid alliance of corporations, foundations, organizations, communities of promise, public agencies, and individuals that together will ensure that our promises to America's young people are kept.

One to One | The National Mentoring Partnership

2801 M Street, N.W. Washington D.C. 20007 (202) 338-3844 nmp@mentoring.org

Electric Emissary Project

The Electronic Emissary Project is an Internet-based interpersonal matching service, based at the University of Texas at Austin, in the College of Education. The Emissary helps teachers with access to the Internet locate other Internet account-holders who are experts in different disciplines, for purposes of setting up curriculum-based, electronic exchanges among the teachers, their students, and the experts.

Ask An Expert
A host of experts that you can email or visit their sites for assistance: art, entertainment, classical musicians, fine arts, career/industry, science/technology, astronaut, astronomers, birds and bugs, communications, agriculture, dinosaurs, ecology, engineers, geology, meteorology, motion, ocean, plants, International cultures, and so much more.

Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, and Computing

Habitat for Humanity - Play a role in the community in which you would like to live.

LEARNING LEADERS is a nonprofit organization that recruits and trains volunteers to provide NYC public school children with educational instructional support. Learning Leaders was the first program of its kind in the country and has served since 1956 as a model for hundreds of other school volunteer programs nationwide.
Learning Leaders • 352 Park Avenue South • 13th Floor • New York, NY 10010 • (212) 213-3370 • info@learningleaders.org

Diversity Workshop - Mentors and Students Come Together to communicate and explore differences that mentors and mentees could initially come across, such as age, race, gender, and work experiences, as well as how to overcome those barriers.