Volunteer and Help Out!

Current opportunities:

Volunteer with Aspire. By providing mentoring, training and encouragement, Aspire hopes that all students, especially those from low-income families and those who will be the first generation to attend college, will continue their education.

Bring your new or hardly used children's books to any Starbucks location and they will be donated to Schoolhouse Supplies. In May, teachers from every public school in the Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington and Clark counties will be invited to the Schoolhouse Supplies warehouse to select books for their school. For more information about the book drive, please visit the Schoolhouse Supplies website.

Help a child learn to read!. The CCFC, in partnership with the Leader's Roundtable is recruiting volunteers for its Connecting for Kids Third Grade Reading Initiative. The goal is to help every third-grader read at grade level. Contact one of these organizations to sign up:

• SMART: Volunteer tutors Start Making a Reader Today by reading with a K-3 student 1 hour per week. Call 503.230.2944 or read volunteer description and download an application.
• OASIS: Volunteers aged 50 and older read and write with a K-3 student 1 hour per week. Contact Colleen Shannon, Coordinator, 503. 241.3059.
• Books 2 U: Volunteers become "book talkers" and get 3rd - 5th graders excited about reading and using the public library. Book talkers visit several classrooms every other month. Contact Sami Scripter, Volunteer Services Administrator, 503.988.5461 or apply online.

Volunteer with the Multnomah County Library.