One-Time Volunteers

In-Person Volunteer Opportunities

Step One: Register

All volunteers are required to register (this includes signing a volunteering-in-person waiver).
Please REGISTER HERE if you are NOT already cleared as a one-time or ongoing volunteer.

Step Two: Sign Up

Proceed below to sign up for a specific event/shift. Email osv@oaklandedfund.org with any questions.
Click a link to jump to a specific subsection or scroll to see all upcoming events.

Back-to-School Support Projects
Additional Volunteer Events
Read-In (Cultural Literature Events)
End-of-Year School Support Projects
Further Information and Resources

Back-to-School Support Projects 2023

Monday, July 31 - Friday, August 4

Teachers have precious little time to prepare their classrooms before the first day of school in August. Check out these photos from previous events.

We will call on hundreds of community members to step up and help with the reopening of schools. Please sign up for a shift below and we will follow-up to get you involved as an individual or group.

Additional Volunteer Events:

Read-In Cultural Literature Weeks

Details to come for the next Read-In!

The Oakland Public Education Fund’s Oakland School Volunteers (OSV) program is seeking volunteers to support Oakland schools during the upcoming Literature Read-In week. Volunteers sign up for a 1.5 hour shift at a school to read aloud with classes in celebration of the national heritage month and literature!

Guest readers sign up for a date and time. The OSV Team will notify readers of a specific school location once school scheduling is finalized. Thank you for your flexibility!

End-of-Year School Support Projects

details to come in 2024

Support Spring & Summer School Spruce-ups! Many helping hands make for light work in clearing out classrooms.

Projects include campus beautification and classroom clean-up at the end of the school year

Further Information and Resources

Back to School Support

see subsection Back-to-School Support Projects above

Read-In Weeks

To celebrate diversity in literature and highlight representation, we host four Read-Ins every year. Hundreds of volunteers read-aloud as special guests to share a lifelong love of reading with schools across Oakland.
Learn more about the next Read-In.

Event Schedule and Linked Photos

Latine/x Read-In, Oct 3 – 7, 2022
African American Read-In, Feb 6 – 10, 2023
Asian Pacific American Read-In, May 1 – 5, 2023

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Adopt an Oakland School Program

For questions about our Adopt an Oakland School program, please learn more here or email osv@oaklandedfund.org.