Volunteer: Help out at a pop-up book sale in Mt. Vernon Triangle
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Since 1998, Turning the Page has become a leader in family engagement, providing thousands of families with the supports, skills, and resources they need to best support their children's learning at home and at school, form positive relationships with their children's teachers, and become leaders in their school communities. Turning the Page currently partners with schools in Ward 7 and Ward 8 of Washington, DC.
Carpe Librum will be popping up at the Mt. Vernon Triangle CID 20th Anniversary Festival (600 block of K Street NW) for a fundraising book sale on Saturday, May 4! We will need volunteers to help us set up and break down the tables and bookshelves for this fundraising event. This is a great opportunity to spend an hour or two supporting literacy and education in the DC public school system.
Can you lend a hand?
The first shift is from 10am-11am, helping to set up the tables and shelve books according to category.The second shift is from 7pm-8pm, helping to break down the tables and pack up books.You'll be a great fit for this opportunity if you're comfortable working outside, and can bend, reach higher shelves, and lift heavy boxes.
If interested, sign up via VolunteerMatch and we will reach out with more details. Contact your name at your email with any questions. If you’re interested in helping out at one of our other pop-up book sales around the city, you can view our sale calendar here https //turningthepage.org/events/. Thank you!
(By the way, we’re not just any bookstore we’re a fundraising bookstore! Carpe Librum collects donated books, CDs, and DVDs to support the DC nonprofit Turning the Page.)
This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.
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