Needs From: Volunteer Center of Lubbock

Lubbock Roots Historical Arts Council and the Booker T. Washington Community Garden are looking for volunteers on our Saturday Work and Learn Days! In the summer we will be opening one Saturday a month in the morning to allow the community to come pick their own produce. We grow produce year round and were able to distribute 500 lbs of produce to the community in 2021.

On any given Saturday we will be building beds; moving mulch; planting seeds; trellising and maintaining plants; or harvesting produce!

We need your help!

The Lubbock Roots Historical Arts Council seeks to enrich lives in our community by promoting a greater understanding of the African American experience through the arts and through the study, interpretation and preservation of the history of African Americans. We can't do it without your help!

 

Please consider helping us with the following opportunities:

Administrative help:

We need help with various operational tasks, such as assist with taking minutes at our monthly meetings and helping with communication 

IT help:

We need help updating and maintaining our Roots website.

Grant writing:

We need help writing grants for various funding opportunities throughout the year.

Booker T. Washington Community Garden:

We need help maintaining this wonderful garden. 

 

Click "RESPOND" below for more information or to volunteer for one of these opportunities. *Please note which opportunity you are responding to in the NOTES section. 

If you're reading this, you're doing better than 13% of our community.  Sadly, 1 out of every 8 people living in Lubbock County are illiterate.  But you can help!

We're on the lookout for ABE (adult basic education) volunteers to help teach our adult students how to read!  You'll be working one-on-one with a singular student to help them learn how to read.  Whether they've never learned before or have dsylexic tendencies that have prevented them from getting it, we have specialized curriculum to help.

This opportunity is entirely flexible: you'll work with your student to set your own schedule.  Only want to meet once a week?  Done.  Want to meet up at a local Starbucks that's close to both of you?  Done.  You take the reigns and figure out a pace that works with you and your student.  And we provide all the support you'll need!

 

In today's world, reading is paramount.  From text messages to articles, from social media to newspapers, people need to read.  And you can help them achieve that goal.

 

About Literacy Lubbock:

Literacy Lubbock was established in 1989 as a local nonprofit dedicated to helping adults learn how to read.  Since then, we've helped more than 7,000 people in the Hub City learn how to read, get their GED, or learn English as a second language and we've distributed more than 50,000 children's books.   Our mission and goal is simple: to support and execute programs that enable people to become literate. 

Because at the end of the day, we believe education and literacy levels are the root cause for a lot of today's problems.  Literacy has a weighty impact on nearly every socio-economic issue plaguing us today, from prison rates, health, employment, poverty levels, and so on.  The surest way for a person to improve their circumstances is by improving their education, and we believe that journey should be accessible, available, and free to any who want it.

Literacy Lubbock is about changing lives and making our world a better place through the people who live here.  Knowledge is power.  And we're determined to share it.