Join us in demonstrating your caring for all of our kids by becoming a Volunteer Tutor or Mentor
We’re making it easy to connect with a volunteer opportunity that aligns with your time, talent and preferences.
Eleven Marin nonprofits offer volunteer opportunities in tutoring and mentoring. There are a wide range of options regarding where, when, for how long and what type of service you will be providing. The COMPENDIUM shows them all. Take a look and contact the nonprofit that best meets your criteria. If the first one isn’t the right fit, keep going. There’s going to be one that works for you!
WHY the Initiative
Our children and grandchildren's lives are far more complicated than when we were their ages. Many kids are struggling in and out of the classroom despite the dedication of their teachers and administrators. Crowded classrooms, lack of resources, learning difficulties all limit the amount of individualized attention necessary to address the needs of every child. These discrepancies are even more manifest post-pandemic.
WHAT you can do
By becoming a tutor or mentor you do more than read to a child or meet them several times a month as a mentor. For students who have fallen behind, you enhance their engagement by providing individualized attention and support. Your actions help to close achievement gaps, boost self-confidence and inspire students to fulfill their aspirations.
"Lynwood teachers and students are extremely grateful for the wonderful volunteers who come on daily basis to our school. These volunteers play an important role in the classroom. Every day students in grades 1-3 are able to read to an adult volunteer. The importance of this program means that students who would not typically have the opportunity to read with an adult for a significant periods of time, now are able to do so each day. Our data indicates that student reading fluency and comprehension is improving as a result of our collaboration. The volunteers are pros who are trained, patient, encouraging and reliable. Again, we are thrilled to have them working with us."
–Former Principal Lynwood Elementary
Marin Nonprofits
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10,000 Degrees
10,000 Degrees® is the leading, equity-focused scholarship provider and college success nonprofit in California.
Our mission is to achieve educational equity and to support students from low-income backgrounds to and through college—and beyond—to realize their full potential and positively impact their communities and the world.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area
The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
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Bridge the Gap College Prep
The mission of Bridge the Gap is to provide comprehensive educational, social and emotional resources to underserved students in Marin County. Our goal is to ensure that all students graduate high school and achieve their greatest potential through college completion or other pathways to economic sustainability and independence.
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Canal Alliance, University Prep (UP!) Program
Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success.
University Prep eliminates barriers to higher education and promotes equity in support of long-term career opportunity for first-generation Latinx students through structured academic and holistic support programming.
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Empowering Children Bay Area (ECBA)
ECBA recruits trains and places older adults (50+) in elementary school classes to build relationships and foster literacy fluency.
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Enriching Lives through Music (ELM)
ELM provides youth with an immersive music education and resources that inspire and empower them to pursue their dreams.
ELM’s Reading Buddies program offers 1-1 reading to students in grades 3-5. Reading takes place once a week for 50 minute sessions. ELM also has a need for volunteer math and science tutors.
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Karma Club Teen
Karma Club offers free tutoring for middle and high school students through our Peer-to-Peer Tutoring program in collaboration with private high schools in Marin, as well as volunteer tutors and from staff and interns. Demand is high and we are always looking for more help. When a tutoring request comes in, we make a direct one-on-one match with a tutor.
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Marin Court Appointed Special
Our goal is to see every child live in a safe, permanent, and supportive home.
To reach our goal, the Marin CASA program recruits, screens, trains, and supervises volunteers who play a critical role in providing a voice for children in the courtroom. Our highly trained, court-appointed volunteers are responsible for making recommendations to the court for the safety, well-being, and a permanent home for every child assigned a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA).
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Next Generation Scholars
Next Generation Scholars equips and empowers first generation, under-resourced Marin County middle and high school students to succeed in college and beyond through socially-conscious leadership development.
Grounded in individualized academic and social support for them and their families, our students are emboldened to address the inequities in the world, both for themselves and for their communities.
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Parent Services Project
Parent Services Project engages and strengthens families to take leadership for the well-being of their children, families, and communities.
Raising a Reader Ambassador program, reading to young children in home daycares and playgroups throughout Marin County. The volunteer would be trained on how to choose an age appropriate book, how to share it in an engaging manner and then how to expand the idea of the story through an activity.
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RISE Scholars, Inc,
Our mission at RISE Scholars is to empower Hamilton School students to realize their full personal and academic potential by providing them with an array of targeted and thoughtful curricular and co-curricular opportunities that support the development of a growth mindset, a positive attitude, and high achievement.