Growing Readers Together | R2S Spring 2020 Fundraising Campaign

This spring, Read to Succeed Asheville/Buncombe (R2S) is focusing on growth - both in providing the one-to-one tutoring that helps young readers grow and adapting our program to our new reality of social distancing.

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, we are creating and sharing more educational resources and literacy content on our website and social channels, including story time videos made by our volunteer reading tutors. These are available to local teachers to use as part of their distance learning lessons. Remote volunteer training is also in the works as well as a pilot program to test out virtual tutoring through video conferencing.

The long-term closure of schools this spring affects the students we work with in more ways than we can imagine. We fully expect to see the combined effects of traditional summer slide plus months without classroom instruction and one-to-one tutoring reflected in students’ fall 2020 reading assessment scores. We know that the need for R2S reading tutors will be greater than ever when schools reopen, and we anticipate an increased number of referrals from teachers for our services.

Bottom line: WE NEED YOUR HELP. Your generous investment in our work will help us respond to this unprecedented situation and enhance our programming, recruit and train more volunteers, as well as serve more elementary students who are behind grade-level with their reading.

Can you help us reach our spring fundraising goal of $10,000 by June 15th, 2020? Click the button below to donate securely online, and please spread the word!

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