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- Category: Everybody Wins! USA Power Lunch Program
Everybody Wins! Power Lunch Program aims to increase children’s’ success in school and in life through one-to-one reading experiences with caring adults. Through our Power Lunch program, we reach 100 second and third grade students every week to help ensure that they have the extra help they need to develop a life-long love of reading.
Everybody Wins! Power Lunch is a national literacy and mentoring program in which adult volunteers travel to a nearby elementary school once a week, and read one-on-one to a the same student during the student’s lunch period. The goals of the program are:
- To generate enthusiasm for books and reading
- To improve listening comprehension, vocabulary, ability to articulate thoughts, and background knowledge (fundamental literacy skills)
- To increase self-esteem through consistent weekly attention from their mentors
- To provide flexible, convenient volunteer experiences for area professionals
- To bring community support and resources into public elementary schools and expose children to people of diverse cultures and backgrounds
This year is the 12th consecutive year that the Stamford Public Education Foundation has connected UBS employees with Stark Elementary School students. The program gained two new corporate partners this year and is connecting employees from the University of Phoenix with students at KT Murphy Elementary School and employees from RBS with students at Hart Magnet Elementary School.
SPEF encourages local corporations with employee volunteer programs to consider participating in the Everybody Wins! USA Power Lunch Program.
One mentor, one child, one book at a time!