Reading Buddies Wins Awards
The Reading Buddies is a literacy-based volunteer program that I started with the help of Shawn Fondow. It pairs college students with students at Banaadir Academy in a one on one setting that fosters growth in phonetic awareness, fluency and comprehension.
Outstanding Community Partner Award
After its first year, the program won the Outstanding Community Partner Award from the University of Minnesota’s Community Service-Learning Center.
Criteria for this award include:
- receives positive feedback from students about their experience at the community organization
- excels in all aspects of partnership: consistent communication, knowledge of service-learning pedagogy, and participation in our office’s committees and events
- has a long history of working with us in innovative ways
2016 Presidents’ Community Partner Award
The Reading Buddies also just won the 2016 Presidents’ Community Partner Award from the Minnesota Campus Compact.
Criteria for this award include:
- enhances the quality of life in the community in meaningful and measurable ways
- engages in the development of sustained, reciprocal partnerships with the college or university
- enriches educational as well as community outcomes