2015 Volunteer Drive Recap

September 24, 2015

Tutors Exceed Goal And Will Serve More Students

By Emily Elliott, Executive Director

On Sept. 17, Heart tutors and staff celebrated the end of the “official” 2015 Volunteer Drive and the beginning of programming in schools. As of Sept. 17, 425 weekly volunteers were signed up as tutors, enough to serve almost 370 students, exceeding this year’s goal of recruiting to serve 350 students! We are overwhelmed with gratitude for community members’ willingness to spend one hour per week helping Charlotte students build foundational skills and academic confidence.

Volunteers are still needed at the times and locations listed at www.hearttutoring.org/become-a-volunteer.

To our tutors, supporters, and partners: you have been Heart’s biggest champions, spreading the word to your friends and colleagues, inviting them to build a relationship with an elementary student and to make a difference in his/her life. Thank you!

We also want to thank the businesses, faith groups, and other organizations whose leaders have generously hosted presentations and events in support of Heart’s Volunteer Drive.

Thank you to these groups for hosting recruitment lunches in support of Heart’s Volunteer Drive:

• Global Endowment Management
• McGuireWoods
• Pamlico Capital
• Wake Forest University
• Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice

Thank you to these groups for inviting Heart to speak to your members and for endorsing Heart as a volunteer opportunity:

• Amec Foster Wheeler
• Bank of America – MAPs
• Patterson Pope
• Selwyn Avenue Presbyterian Church
• St. John’s Church
• The Charlotte Woman’s Club
• Charlotte SouthPark Rotary Club
• Wells Fargo – Operations Group

Thank you to additional volunteer partner organizations for your work publicizing Heart to your members. Those include First Presbyterian Church, Social Venture Partners, Teach for America, Belmont Abbey, and others.

A grant from Reemprise Fund has been instrumental in our ability to share Heart’s message this year. Many thanks to From The Hip Communications, Walker PR Group, Spiracle Media, and Big House Marketing for your support of Heart’s volunteer recruitment efforts.

We also want to thank our funders, who allow us to provide the structure necessary to place tutors with students and ensure the experience is impactful. This includes our institutional funders and many generous individual donors supporting this year’s operations. Thank you for believing in Heart’s work and for providing the financial resources to make it possible.

Good luck to all of the volunteer tutors beginning in schools – this week with training and next week to meet their students! For students, the months ahead will be filled with steady progress towards recovering foundational math skills ­– and lots of high fives.

Thank you for making Heart’s 2015 Volunteer Drive a success!