Help your neighbors and fellow community members learn language skills and life skills.
Our volunteer opportunities include:
- Door Greeter
- Hawthorne Helps
- Conversation Circles
- English as a Second Language (ESL) Classroom Assistant
- Adult Basic Education (ABE) Classroom Assistant
- Learning Lab Tutor
Our volunteers are positioned to make an impact. The Literacy Program, housed in the Hawthorne Education Center, serves almost 1600 adult learners each year; each day between 300-400 adult learners and sixty of their preschool children receive services at the Center. Nearly 85% of the learners live at or below the poverty level. The adult learners, age 17 to 90, come together to improve their English, to get a high school diploma, a GED, Citizenship, prepare for college, and to master the life skills they need to be successful parents and citizens.
