猫咪AV Twin Cities reaches 46% more students, empowering children and communities to thrive
September 15, 2022
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Graham Sutherland
External Relations Director, 猫咪AV Twin Cities
(206) 601-9458 |聽graham.sutherland@
Local nonprofit鈥檚 2021-22 impact results show critical support for students, schools, and communities
SAINT PAUL, Minn. – September 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 46% more local students in the 2021-22 school year than the year before.
鈥淭he widespread school interruptions of the past few years have exacerbated pre-existing opportunity gaps, especially for BIPOC students,鈥� executive director Brooke Rivers said. 鈥淩eading is foundational 鈥� the ability to read transforms lives and empowers children and communities to thrive. 猫咪AV’ one-on-one model offers a way for students to accelerate any learning they missed, as well as focus on building the confidence needed to succeed.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 Twin Cities.
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234聽students received 12+ sessions of one-on-one tutoring
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7,392聽total tutoring sessions were delivered to those same students
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306聽community tutors supported students
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98%聽of volunteers were satisfied with their experience
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100%聽of teachers report 猫咪AV is valuable to their school
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Every student enrolled in 猫咪AV received a summer backpack, filled with 5 new books and activity books to combat summer slide
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Learn more about 猫咪AV鈥� impact in Twin Cities聽.
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Learn about 猫咪AV鈥� national impact聽.
In addition to reaching a lot of students, 猫咪AV Twin Cities achieved impressive student performance. In 2021-22,聽87%聽of all 猫咪AV students finished the year meeting or exceeding their primary end-of-year literacy growth goals, while聽96%聽of K-2 猫咪AV students were developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read and grade level.
鈥淭his is one of the most crucial times to support our students, and we can鈥檛 do this work alone,鈥� said Rivers. 鈥溍ㄟ銩V is growing, and we need our community behind us to make sure all of our students have a reading partner this year.
Heading into the new school year, 猫咪AV Twin Cities anticipates needing more than 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 The New York Times.
