Overview:
Access Books Bay Area seeks several ongoing volunteers for our mural painting team. We conduct 3 projects per year to refurbish a library at a local underfunded school. This includes painting custom murals, which refresh the space and make it more fun and inspiring for the children. One-time volunteers help with the painting on the project day, but the Artistic Volunteers will do the design, planning and supervision. We are seeking several committed Artistic Volunteers. Depending on experience & availability, one will take on the role of Artistic Director.
Job responsibilities:
Assist with the design and execution of murals.
Accompany our operations team to view the library, meet staff and assess mural needs.
Develop custom mural designs.
Help to maintain inventory of paint and other painting supplies. Assist with obtaining supplies.
Supervise one-time volunteers in the drawing and painting of murals on the project days (three Saturdays per/year from approximately 8am - 4pm).
Skills & Qualifications
Excellent artistic & design skills.
Ability to use photoshop or similar to develop custom designs.
Interest and ability to assist with managing one-time mural volunteers with a variety of skill levels, including children.
Good communication and organizational skills, flexibility.
Passion for improving the library experience for students at underfunded schools.
Time Commitment
We ask for a 6 month commitment. The number of hours per week varies, with more hours in the weeks leading up to a project date, and many hours on the actual project days. Project work-days occur on weekday afternoons and Saturdays, for our Fall, Winter and Spring projects. Our next project will be on Saturday, Sept 21st, 2024. Besides scheduled workdays, the timing of volunteer work is flexible.
About Access Books Bay Area
Access Books Bay Area is a non-profit with a mission to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty. We do this by providing high quality, high-interest, culturally relevant books, and a transformed school library space that invites students to spend time and read. For more information about our organization and team, please visit our website.
80 Harriet Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Our mission is to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty by providing high quality, high-interest, culturally relevant books, and a transformed school library space that invites students to spend time and read. We believe that books change lives, and that for children living in poverty, the school library is the best way to connect children with pleasure reading books. Studies have shown that reading for pleasure is one of the single greatest indicators of future academic success, yet the state of California provides no dedicated funding for school libraries, and many of the schools in the Bay Area have not funded their school libraries for decades, leading to out-dated collections and unattractive facilities. Our organization changes lives by making sure that the school library is an attractive place full of wonderful, interesting, recent, and culturally relevant books that will help them become lifelong readers.
We provide books to low-income schools where approximately 90 percent of students live at or below the poverty line. Most students at the schools we serve are children of color and children of immigrants. Our organization provides brand new, hardcover, high quality books to school libraries and gently used books to teachers for classroom libraries, as well as improving the library space by painting colorful, reading-based murals and providing new comfortable reading furniture.
We complete 2-3 library renovation projects each academic year, each taking place on a Saturday from 9am - 2pm. Volunteers from partner community service organizations collect the gently used books to be donated and provide volunteers for the project day.
We serve school around the bay area, although most of our work to date has been concentrated in the south bay and peninsula areas. We have renovated nine elementary and middle school libraries in high poverty areas to date, and have applications pending for four more, one of which will be renovated this spring.
In SF Bay Area, driving distance from South BaySan Francisco Bay Area, CA 94301
July 11, 2024
