Volunteering at Literacy Memphis

Here’s a list of the jobs currently held by volunteers at Literacy Memphis.

Tutor

83 volunteers serve as individual tutors.

Teacher

5 volunteers teach small classes in reading, writing, speaking, and computer programming skills.

Computer Center Proctor

6 volunteers serve as Proctors in the Literacy Memphis Computer Center.

Office Assistant

21 volunteers, many of whom are high school students, help the full-time staff with office work such as filing, addressing envelopes, delivering documents, scheduling tutoring sessions, communicating with tutors and students, and answering e-mail.

Events Assistant

8 volunteers assist the full-time staff in planning and running the organization’s training sessions and fund-raising events.

Book Collector and Distributor for the Read Me a Story Program

4 volunteers assist Bobby Parks, the Director of the Read Me a Story Program, in soliciting, collecting, cataloging, and distributing the books used by the program.

Community Representative

15 volunteers help the full-time staff to build connections with groups and organizations in Memphis and the Mid-South.

Volunteer Publicists and Fundraisers

21 volunteers make presentations for Literacy Memphis at local libraries, churches, synagogues, and other organizations. These volunteers help the organization recruit new tutors and donors, as well as further publicize the problem of illiteracy in Memphis and the U.S.

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