Volunteers
Our volunteers are critical to our mission. We invite you to join us in helping change students and adults lives!
Volunteer Opportunities
We are a volunteer-based organization. We appreciate the hard work and dedication that our volunteers provide for the children and adults in our community.
Several volunteer opportunities are available at the Palmetto Literacy Council and we are always looking for more tutors.
Who are our Volunteers?
Anyone Who Wishes to Help
Our volunteers come from all walks of life and want to improve the literacy rates in our community. Many are retired, semi-retired, working or college students. We welcome everyone to join us!
We'll Help You Get Started
The first step for any volunteer is to contact us to let us know they are interested. We’ll ask you to complete an application packet (we can email it to you.) Next, we’ll do a criminal background check and invite you to a training session.
We Ask Our Volunteers To:
- Spend about 2 hours each week for volunteer tutor opportunities
- Attend a Volunteer Tutoring Orientation
- Submit information so that a criminal background check can be completed
- Attend training for tutoring or other duties
Opportunities Include:
- Tutoring school-aged children or adults in Basic Reading
- Tutoring school-age children or adults in Basic Writing
- Tutoring school-age children or adults in Basic Math
- Working on Committees such as Finance, Communications or Fundraising
- Helping with Social Media
- Assessing new students
- Assisting administrative staff
Meet a Tutor!
Strength-Based Language!
We use strength-based language. What is strength-based language? We talk about where you are and what do we need to do next. It has nothing to do with “should”, “could”, or “would.” It has everything to do with finding out where we are and figuring out where we want to go and how. What happened in the past, is just that, the past. Let’s move forward!