猫咪AV

For Immediate Release

Contact:

Devika Strother

Communications Manager, 猫咪AV DC

(240) 388-8167 |聽devika.strother@readingpartners.org

Local nonprofit鈥檚 2021-22 impact results show critical support for students, schools, and communities

WASHINGTON, DC – Sept. 15, 2022聽聽鈥� Despite COVID-19 variants creating ongoing disruptions in schools, 猫咪AV continued to provide critical literacy support to students, schools, and communities. In fact, the nonprofit provided literacy tutoring to 47% more local students in the 2021-22 school year than the year before.

鈥淲e take early literacy and educational equity very seriously at 猫咪AV,” executive director Shukurat Adamoh-Faniyan said. “We exist to help close the opportunity gap for students who historically come from marginalized communities. It鈥檚 important to reach as many students as we can in our communities to ensure they are mastering fundamental reading skills in order to empower them so that they can choose the life that they want.鈥�

2021-22 results show that 猫咪AV continued to positively impact students

Each year, 猫咪AV publishes reports highlighting student performance for the national organization and for each of its 12 respective regions across the country. The Impact & Innovation reports for the 2021-22 school year have recently been posted on聽聽and include the following highlights in Washington, DC.

• 616聽students received 12+ sessions of one-on-one tutoring

• 12,273聽total tutoring sessions were delivered to those same students

• 44%聽of sessions were delivered online via 猫咪AV Connects

• 465聽community tutors supported students

• Learn more about 猫咪AV鈥� impact in DC聽.

• Learn about 猫咪AV鈥� national impact聽.

In addition to reaching a lot of students, 猫咪AV DC achieved impressive student performance. In 2021-22,聽76%聽of all 猫咪AV students finished the year meeting or exceeding their primary end-of-year literacy growth goals, while聽83%聽of K-2 猫咪AV students were developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read and grade level.

鈥淥ur achievements have much to do with the high-dosage, one-to-one tutoring support that 猫咪AV provides, and we are looking forward to more innovative approaches to our work to position our students to be successful in the future,鈥� Adamoh-Faniyan added.

Heading into the new school year, 猫咪AV DC anticipates needing more than 1,500 community volunteers to support students’ literacy development. Follow聽聽if you鈥檙e interested in investing one hour a week to help empower a student through reading.

猫咪AV also gets help from AmeriCorps members to train and provide ongoing support to literacy volunteers. Please聽聽if you鈥檙e interested in becoming an AmeriCorps member at 猫咪AV.

A volunteer tutor and a student in a reading center engaging in 猫咪AV鈥� traditional tutoring program (Photo Credit: 猫咪AV)

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About 猫咪AV

For over 20 years, 猫咪AV has helped empower students to succeed in school and beyond by engaging community volunteers to provide聽, one-on-one literacy tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has mobilized over 75,000 community volunteers to provide more than 2.5 million individualized literacy tutoring sessions to more than 70,000 elementary school students in nearly 470 under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit聽to learn more about our聽and our聽online program innovation, or connect with us on,,, and. 猫咪AV is a proud聽service partner and has been endorsed by聽The New York Times.