Volunteer Orientations & Trainings!

If you're interested in tutoring, leading a workshop, or working with 826 Boston in any way, attend a new volunteer meeting! All volunteers are required to attend an orientation & training which lasts about two hours. We will go over all the programming we run, helpful tips & tricks, role-play our new tutoring skills, and talk about strategies for working with students of different ages, skills, and needs. The upcoming volunteer orientations & trainings are:

Monday, February 6th, 6:30pm-8:30pm Thursday, February 23rd, 6:00pm-8:00pm

Sign up for an upcoming orientation and training here.

All trainings are located in the 826 Boston writing center, 3035 Washington Street in Roxbury. Click here for directions. If you have any questions, shoot an email to our Volunteer Coordinator Raquel [at] 826boston.org.

Why Volunteer?

826 Boston was voted Best Place to Volunteer in the Boston Globe's Best of the New for 2008. Click on the logo to read more!

Here's what Benjamin, 826 Boston volunteer extraordinaire, has to say about why you should volunteer:

"The best part of volunteering at 826 Boston is the sense of 'possibility' that is always palpable. New worlds are being created constantly. Not only worlds of imagination and learning, but also a world where every student can realize their own gifts. I always leave with the feeling that things just might be alright."

826 Boston is always looking for volunteers to help out, from providing homework help for students after school, to creating Saturday writing workshops, to steering in-school publishing projects and working in the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute.

Teach a Workshop!

Our workshop calendar of exciting offerings for students depends entirely on our volunteers! From silly to serious, multi- or mono-media, we want to hear your idea! Take a look at the workshop guidelines and submit your proposal to karen [at] 826boston.org. We are currently accepting workshop proposals for our August workshop weeks!

Download a workshop proposal. Download the workshop guidelines.

Donate Your Expertise!

We need the support of volunteers from a variety of backgrounds to make this project a success. Among anyone willing to lend a hand, we are in particular need of:

• Architects and builders, to help us improve our cryptozoology shop
• Carpenters, the mechanically inclined, and handy folks of all types
• Web designers, programmers, networking experts and techies of various sorts
• Graphic designers and artists
• Copy-editors and those with publishing experience
• Musicians, poets, and authors
• Grant-writers
• Fundraisers
• Event planners
• Those with marketing experience
• Those with management experience
• Those with budgeting and financial experience
• Those with retail experience to help develop the store

Volunteer of the Month: December 2011

We are proud to announce that 826 Boston's December 2011 Volunteer of the Month is Nancy Butman!

Lately, Nancy has been heavily involved with our in-school program and this year's feature publication with the 6th, 7th nd 8th graders from the Mission Hill School. This year's publication will center around the theme of work. The students are interested in interviewing some very interesting individuals (Does anyone know a ventriloquist? Seriously...) and Nancy has helped us find several interview subjects including a gorilla keeper and a ballerina! Her warm spirit and generous nature have been a wonderful addition to the 826 volunteer corps and we are so happy to have her as a volunteer.

Nancy says, "I have really enjoyed working with the students at the Mission Hill School-they are so full of energy and enthusiasm; even when their enthusiasms are distracting, they are very amusing to watch. It's wonderful to be involved in a long term project and to be able to build relationships with this great group of kids."

Outside of tutoring, Nancy is an avid gardener and a professional landscape designer. She enjoys yoga and is a member of the Concord Historical Commission. Whenever Father Frost decides to grace New England with snow, you will be able to find her cross-country skiing in the woods. She is also a sailor, cook and knitter. In true 826 spirit, Nancy loves reading - especially history, fiction and poetry - but really just about anything!

Thank you, Nancy, for all that you do! Thank you, Harvard Book Store, for sponsoring our Volunteer of the Month program!

See our past Volunteers of the Month!

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