Literacy Library Jobs: California - Carlsbad :: Bay Area :: Sonoma Co

Literacy / Volunteer Jobs: California

Volunteer Coordinator - PT
Carlsbad Library
Coordinate volunteer activities with all three library facilities and will regularly work from the Carlsbad City Library on Dove Lane and the Georgina Cole Library.
Application Deadline: June 6
Literacy- Student Success – FT

Jewish Coalition for Literacy (JCL) Bay Area
Further develop and implement Parent Engagement programming, integrating Points of Light guidelines. - Develop volunteer roles to support before/after school programs, school attendance, infrastructure and other school needs.
ApplicationDeadline: June 25

Reading Center Site Coordinator

Reading Partners, Oakland
Oversee the operations of the Reading Partners Reading Center, a special learning environment created in a room provided by the school to Reading Partners
Application Deadline: Open

Literacy Coordinator - FT

Volunteer Center of Sonoma County
Reporting to the Literacy Manager, the Literacy Coordinator is responsible for recruiting, screening and training volunteers and partnering with Schools of Hope (SOH) in related activities.
Application Deadline: Open

Oakland Public Library Literacy / Follow-Up

Save Second Start !

What Measure Q ?
More broken promises from the City of Oakland.
from abetteroakland.com: 10.02.08 by V. Smoothe

. . . At least, I could see myself supporting the elimination of the Library’s literacy programs in these tough times If the people of Oakland hadn’t voted specifically to tax themselves to pay for it only four years ago! I’m sorry, but this is just completely unacceptable.

Measure Q, which pays for the bulk of the library’s literacy programs, was passed in 2004 with an overwhelming 77.2% of the vote. Sixty-two thousand Oakland residents stepped into a voting booth and checked “I want to pay $75 dollars every year for the next thirty years to support library services.”

And what is written there, clear as day, under the “Use of Proceeds” section of the measure (PDF)? “To expand library-based programs in support of literacy, lifelong learning, and information technology.” See? It says expand, not eliminate!

Library Director Carmen Martinez and then-Mayor Jerry Brown signed a very straightforward ballot argument in favor the tax, promising that Measure Q will “Maintain literacy programs that teach Oakland residents to read.” And people said “Yes, I will pay for that. Send me the bill.”

End of story. Seriously, what else is there to discuss? As long as they keep collecting Measure Q dollars (that would be until 2024, FYI), any talk of eliminating the library’s literacy programs should be completely off the table. The City cannot keep breaking promises about how they’re going to spend the taxpayer’s money! Why, why, why should I, or anyone else, ever vote for another tax in this City again when we cannot trust them to spend the money as promised?

Second Start isn’t the only unconscionable cut in the Mayor’s proposed budget, and hey - it isn’t even the only one to library services. The Mayor also proposes to save us $120,000 by eliminating the Bookmobile. READ MORE

Oakland Library Literacy - Please Help Save Second Start !

Please Help Save Second Start !
Dear Friends:

Second Start is about to be eliminated.

We need your help IMMEDIATELY if we are to survive.

As I'm sure you know from reading the paper, Oakland is facing huge deficits. All departments have been told to make cuts. The Library has chosen to make its cuts by, among other things, eliminating Second Start, along with our entire department of Access Services, which includes the Bookmobile and Services for the Disabled and Elderly - all the neediest people who can't get to, or use, the library without help.

We're told that City Council has to approve these cuts, so we're fighting this and literally taking it to City Hall in hopes that the program can be saved.

I'm asking all of Second Start's friends - all the programs, entities and people who know us and have worked with us - to write a letter in our support. Please take a moment to put in writing some of the things that you have come to learn about our work over the past years. You have seen us in action, you know what we do - please tell the Oakland City Council that Second Start needs to remain part of Oakland. There is no other city organization that will take our place if Second Start is disbanded !