70% of the children attending schools in Oakland’s poorest neighborhoods are two or more grade levels behind. They need to learn reading and math skills now, before it’s too late.
Your monthly gift to Children Rising gives these kids a chance rise to their God-given potential!
To provide critical one-on-one reading and math tutoring, we are looking for a small group of caring individuals from the Bay Area who can afford $1.66 per day to help children thrive in school.
Your sustained gifts will help provide children with a caring one-on-one tutor throughout the school year.
Through a circle of care approach, Children Rising programs surround children and families with deeper academic support so they can learn what is needed to become confident, engaged students.
Comprising our three targeted programs—Succeeding by Reading, Path2Math, and FamilyBridge—this circle of care helps children stop falling further behind. Through meaningful one-on-one relationships, they rediscover a love of reading and math and develop the confidence to thrive in school.
“Community partners are the oil that supports the machine we’re running. Having one-on-one support from a tutor helps the student go back to the classroom better able to learn.”
– Alex Brandenburg, Principal, Garfield Elementary School
Please reply by March 31st if you are in a position to help. Your entire first year of monthly gifts will be matched up to $20,000.
Since Children Rising’s founding in 2001, our tutors have worked one-on-one with an eager child, month after month, throughout the school year, providing sustained, nurturing support. Like them, Oakland LAMPS provide sustained support so children receive the care they need to become lifelong learners, each and every month.
In that time, 70% of children who received 20 or more tutoring sessions advanced two or more grade levels in reading and math.
The Oakland LAMPS—Literacy and Math Partners—are passionate supporters who provide hope and promise in our community through monthly giving. When you become a member of the Children Rising Oakland LAMPS, you create a stable environment where we can pair eager young learners with a caring adult.
Joining the Oakland LAMPS is a special way for you to make a real impact on children and families in Oakland’s poorest neighborhoods.
As an added incentive, when you make a monthly gift today, all first-year monthly gifts UP TO $20,000 will be matched by a couple of generous donors. If you commit to $25 per month, Children Rising will receive $600 in matching gifts. If you commit to $50 per month, that matching gift will equal $1,200.
Your gift will supply a tutor with the appropriate training, tools, and materials, enabling them to tutor two struggling children.
Your gift will equip a 2nd-grader with the necessary books and supplies to thrive in a full academic year of reading tutoring.
Your gift provides connected, wrap-around services, learning expertise, tools, and support for parents and caregivers so their children can thrive.
Your gift will send a child their very own math tutor so they will develop math fluency and improve critical reasoning skills.
Children Rising tote bag
Leather-bound journal and a Children Rising tote bag
Literally Unbelievable: Stories from an East Oakland Classroom — Book signed by the author, Bronwynn Harris, Children Rising tote bag, and Leather-bound journal.
“As an educator, I know how important it is that good language comprehension and word reading skills are. We have donated monthly for 22 years, and we will continue doing that, and I hope you do the same. Early intervention that Children Rising provides absolutely is key.” – Lynda and Jim Hampton, long-time members of Oakland LAMPS
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