Volunteer with EducationWorks
Volunteers share talents and enhance learning experiences by reading to children, helping with homework, staging a play, coaching sports and other recreational games, going on field trips, and in many other ways serving children and adults through our programs.
Current volunteer needs are:
Days of Service
Throughout the year, EW staff and AmeriCorps members conduct community service and service learning projects with students, their families, school staff, and community members. Most projects are school and neighborhood-based service projects. Consider joining us, our students and other adults for:
National Young Readers Day: a day celebrating literacy in schools.
Date: November 2007
Location: Trenton
Contact: Regina Barry, (609) 392-6662
The Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service: The nation's largest celebration of Dr. King's life and work.
Date: January 2008
Location: Philadelphia and Trenton
Contact: Philadelphia, Brooke Burkette, (215) 221-6930 ext 6817
Trenton, Regina Barry, (609) 392-6662
National Youth Service Day: Service projects and events involve and reward young people for being proactive in their communities.
Date: April 2008
Location: Philadelphia and Trenton
Contact: Philadelphia, Brooke Burkette, (215) 221-6930 ext 6817
Trenton, Regina Barry, (609) 392-6662
Philadelphia Sites
Mentoring Matters in South Philly matches children and youth of incarcerated parents with caring and committed adult mentors. They meet for one hour, once a week over the course of a year at the Beacon to do homework, play board games, or participate in arts and crafts and computer lab activities. Mentors and mentees also get together with their families and program staff outside of the Beacon for group outings, e.g., 76ers and Phillies games, concert at the Kimmel Center , barbeques and pizza parties.
Location: South Philadelphia
Contact: (215) 952-8599
