IN MEMORY OF...

History

Started in 2004 at the request of the Coachella Valley Unified School District Superintendent of Schools, Roberta and Clay Klein started a fund at the Desert Community Foundation and asked the pastor of their church for his assistance in recruiting volunteers. Father Howard Lincoln of Sacred Heart Church readily agreed. The District had been using English speaking volunteers to the extent, they could get them to go into the schools in the district that had no English speaking people in the community. Roberta asked the Superintendent if he would provide buses if they could recruit volunteers who were fluent in English through churches and other organizations.

Read With Me was born and now brings volunteers from seven churches to five different schools. The schools are all in areas of high poverty with a majority of the parents untrained in academic English. They love their children but cannot help them with English.

In 2013, Read With Me received a Golden Bell Award for English Acquisition from the California School Board Association. We believe the program is totally replicable in other areas that face similar challenges in providing tutoring and mentoring for disadvantaged children in a classroom setting.

What we do

In the classroom, the teacher assigns individual volunteers to selected students to listen to them read, assisting them with pronunciation and comprehension. The mentor/tutors are typically retired part-time Coachella Valley residents, some with special skills who help specific students go beyond the basic.

Read With Me Volunteers has received many donations in memory of some of our wonderful volunteers who have passed. We honor their memory and are forever grateful for their contribution to our organization.

IN MEMORY OF:

DONATED BY:

2019

JOAN FERRARI

Read With Me Volunteer & Supporter.

Shelly & Dan Barsani

Suzzanne Sidensol

Richard & Genevieve Rolla

Raymond J. Triplett

2014-2018

EDMUND CAREY

MARIAN LE BLANC

FAITH SCHELLINGER

CHARLES LANGERSTROM

VARLYN FINK

GEORGE DIXON

LARRY FAGAN

SALLY DAVIS

GLEN PRESLEY

MELINDA RILEY

ANNA RUGGERI

ROBERT LE BLANC

DIANE BURNS

KIRSTEN DOWELL

JANE MURPHY

CINDY LEWIS

CHERYL MURPHY

MARY ELLEN BERRY

JANET ANWEILER

ARI CRANDALL

CAROL STARKEY

DEBORAH JOHNSON

JUDITH FASCIANA

SACRED HEART

DAVID & MICHELLE STONE

MICHAEL, ROBERTA, ERIC & JAMES LANGERSTROM

SUE & WALLY TORKELLS

BOB & LINDA RISHEL

CARLTON THOMASY

CONNIE LAMBERT

KIMBERLEY FRANKLIN

DORIS ZIEMERA

ROBERTA

JOHN & SUSAN HALE

PETE DEL RIO

KAREN BLAESI

MARILYN PAIGE

MARY SKUBIK

CUNNINGHAM & CO.

CARLEEN PRESELY

KAREN MILLIKEN

BARBARA & LARRY WHITE

LARRY & GAIL ARNOFF

KATHY COPLEN

DAN & SHERIDAN STRACENER

MARY LOUISE SELLE

TERRANCE MESSERERMAN DDS

CAROL STEERE

THOM & ANN NORBURY

JUDITH WOLOWITZ

History

Read With Me

A Golden Bell award for English Acquisition by the California School Board Association.

Volunteer Programs

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of Joan Ferrari

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Read With Me Volunteers

P.O. Box 1016, Rancho Mirage, Ca 92270

IN MEMORY OF...

IN MEMORY OF:

DONATED BY:

2019

Read With Me Volunteer & Supporter.

2014-2018

PETE DEL RIO

IN MEMORY OF...

IN MEMORY OF:

DONATED BY:

2019

Read With Me Volunteer & Supporter.

2014-2018

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PETE DEL RIO