Share the joy of reading and help change a life in just one hour! (San Francisco/Marin)

Reading Partners empowers you to become an effective tutor by matching you with a single student and providing a structured, easy-to-use curriculum and lots of support. Your time and passion can help a child strengthen their reading skills, build confidence, and discover a passion for reading.

Be someone's hero.

Over the past decade, volunteers like you have helped more than 12,000 students become confident readers by using the Reading Partners curriculum. Our volunteer tutors make a huge impact in the lives of their reading partners. By sharing their passion and knowledge, tutors become mentors, friends, and heroes to their students.

Tutoring one-on-one with a child is a fun, powerful way to help a student succeed in reading and life. No prior experience necessary to make a difference!

What: Change a student's life by joining our team of committed reading partners today!

When: 1 hour a week can help a student thrive. Centers typically operate Mondays-Thursdays, 9am-5pm.

San Francisco:

• Rosa Parks Elementary: 1501 O'Farrell Street (Western Addition)
• Tenderloin Community School: 627 Turk Street (Tenderloin/Civic Center)
• Leonard Flynn Elementary: 3125 Cesar Chavez Street (South Mission/Bernal Heights)
• Monroe Elementary: 260 Madrid Street (Excelsior)
• Hillcrest Elementary: 810 Silver Avenue (Portola)
• Alvarado Elementary: 625 Douglass Street (Noe Valley)
• Sherman Elementary: 1651 Union St (Cow Hollow)
• Bret Harte Elementary: 1035 Gilman Ave (Bayview)
• Daniel Webster Elementary: 465 Missouri Street (Potrero Hill)
• Sanchez Elementary: 325 Sanchez Street (Mission)

North Bay:

• Bayside Elementary: 630 Nevada St (Sausalito - North Bay)