5 Ways to Support R2S in 2025

Do you have a New Year's intention to get more involved in your community? To support nonprofits and causes you care about?

R2S has you covered with five essential ways to support our community-powered literacy programs in Asheville and Buncombe County.

1. Sign up to be a Reading Tutor
Due to Helene, local students missed more than a month of school. Now, more than ever, they deserve the absolute best our community can give them to support their education!

New training dates for volunteer tutors are right around the corner, and now is the time to sign up! All new volunteer reading tutors are required to complete a minimum of six hours of training (two hours a day spread across three days) of training.

WHAT: R2S Volunteer Tutor Training
DATES: Wednesdays, Jan. 15, 22, and 29th, 2025
WHERE: 6 PM - 8 PM on Zoom

Click HERE to learn more and complete a Volunteer Application today!

2. Become a Monthly Donor
Sustained giving really adds up for grassroots nonprofits like R2S!

• $15/mo. provides three books to three students each month.
  
• $25/mo. supports weekly read-alouds in PreK classrooms.
  
• $50/mo. fills Tutor Toolkits and funds ongoing coaching.
  
• $100/mo. serves community partners with literacy training (and earns you a spot in the R2S Page Turners Circle!)
  
  

Commit to monthly giving in 2025, and know that your support directly impacts local students and their families.  Click HERE to get started today!

3. Follow R2S on Social Media
One of the best ways to stay up to date on all the latest R2S happenings - from volunteer opportunities to family reading events, guest author visits, and press - is to follow us at @r2sasheville on Instagram, Facebook, X and LinkedIn.

4. Join our Page Turners Circle
R2S Page Turners Circle members receive special R2S swag, get exclusive updates from Co-Executive Directors, and attend special events. Any donor giving more than $1,000 in a calendar year automatically becomes an R2S Page Turners Circle member!

Click HERE to learn more and join the Page Turners Circle today!

5. Learn about the youth literacy crisis
Did you know that more than half of all NC third-graders do *not* read on grade level? When you sub-aggregate that data by race and income level, the numbers are even more astonishing.

The BEST way to support literacy is to learn about how our city, state and country got to this crisis and how educators everywhere are using the Science of Reading to reverse the curve and show up for students in unprecedented ways.

Stream "The Right to Read" documentary, listen to "Sold a Story" podcast, and follow R2S in the press to get started.