Volunteer
Interested in becoming part of the Read and Feed family?
Read and Feed is recruiting volunteer reading tutors! Our volunteer tutors work with Wake County 1st through 5th grade students who are reading below grade level. As a reading tutor, you will attend one of our program sites up to twice a week to play educational games, read books, and make a difference in the life of a child. No prior teaching experience is required to be a tutor, only a willingness to give kids an appetite for reading! We will train you on the curriculum and procedures we use.
If you want to support our mission, but prefer to work behind the scenes, we have other volunteer opportunities including food pick-up and delivery, book sorting, and mobile classroom preparation. Check out the resources below to learn more about all of the opportunities we have available.
Because our organization supports children in our community, we require that all volunteers complete a background check.
Please fill out a volunteer application by clicking the link below below to get started! After completing your application, sign up for an upcoming volunteer orientation to learn more about our organization and the volunteer opportunities available in your area.
Ways to Volunteer
Tutor
Serve as a reading tutor for Wake County children, kindergarten to fifth grade, for 1-2 evening hours a week for 24-26 weeks (10, in the summer). Assist in serving a light meal prior to tutoring. Volunteers do not need a teaching background to be tutors – we provide you with the tools you need to work with the children.
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Pickup/Deliver Food
Pick up meals from local restaurants or Interfaith Food Shuttle and deliver them to the program site or Read and Feed office. Also, volunteer may assist in serving the meals to the children at the program sites. Shifts are approximately 1 hour, late afternoon.
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Office/Administration
Volunteers are needed to help keep our office organized, sort and label books and enter book titles into our library database. Other data entry tasks include updating volunteer hours in our volunteer database, entering children’s attendance records in Excel and recording answers from kids’ surveys.
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