Community Connections is a listing of opportunities to support the ongoing programming, event and organizational capacity needs of our nonprofit partners. These volunteer opportunities are all coordinated directly by our nonprofit partners.

Agency: Reading to Kids

Description: Reading to Kids organizes monthly reading clubs at eight elementary schools in the downtown Los Angeles area.

Program: The Reading to Kids program is a monthly reading club in which volunteers read in pairs to 5-7 kids per class while their parents work with the elementary school teachers to learn how to be good readers at home.

Volunteer Role & Responsibilities: Volunteers are needed to serve as readers to small groups of students at elementary schools (typically between 4 and 6 children per group) in a fun environment. Teachers at the elementary school provide supervision and guidance throughout the morning.

Requirements: Volunteers must be 18 years of age.

Time Commitment: The reading clubs run from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Locations: Reading programs happen at the following school locations:

• Alta Loma Elementary School
  1745 Vineyard Avenue
  Los Angeles, California 90019

• Esperanza Elementary School
  680 Little Street
  Los Angeles, California 90017

• Gratts Elementary School
  309 S. Lucas Avenue
  Los Angeles, California 90017

• Hoover Elementary School
  2726 Francis Avenue
  Los Angeles, California 90005

• Los Angeles Elementary School
  1211 S. Hobart Blvd.
  Los Angeles, California 90006

• Magnolia Elementary School
  1626 S. Orchard Avenue
  Los Angeles, California 90006

• Politi Elementary School
  2481 W. 11th St.
  Los Angeles, California 90006

• White Elementary School
  2401 Wilshire Blvd.
  Los Angeles, California 90057

Impact Areas: Children & Youth: Literacy

Interests: The interests recommended for this project are:
Reading / Youth Literacy

Skills: There are no skills specified for this project.