Overview

The San Francisco Bay Area is the birthplace of Reading Partners. Over the years, Reading Partners has grown from operating its reading centers in one school on the Peninsula to operating in twenty schools throughout San Francisco, the East Bay, the Peninsula, the South Bay and the North Bay.

Each on-campus reading center operates in in a converted classroom or a library. Every reading center is staffed by a Reading Partners Site Coordinator to work with the school staff, understand student needs, and guide volunteer tutors.

In 2010-11 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Reading Partners will:

• Offer one-on-one tutoring to 1,025 students through its

• 1,250 active volunteer tutors at

• 20 partner schools

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North Bay Sausalito/Marin City San Francisco Potrero Hill Bayview Noe Valley Mission Cow Hollow East Bay San Leandro San Pablo Oakland N Fruitvale Oakland S Fruitvale North Oakland Peninsula San Mateo Redwood City Atherton Menlo Park South Bay Mountain View Santa Clara Downtown San Jose South Downtown SJ South East San Jose

Reading Partners Central Office:

Sobrato Center for Nonprofits
528 Valley Way
Milpitas, CA 95035
Phone: 408.945.5720
Fax: 408.516.8516

Reading Partners Oakland Office:

106 Linden St., #202
Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: 510.444.9800
Fax: 510.444.9801

Reading Center Calendars

• Alvarado (San Francisco, CA)

• Bayside (Sausalito/Marin City, CA)

• Belle Haven (Menlo Park, CA)
  

• Berkley Maynard (Oakland, CA)

• Bret Harte (San Francisco, CA)

• Brookfield (Oakland, CA)

• Daniel Webster (San Francisco, CA)

• Hawes (Redwood City, CA)
  

• Hillside (San Leandro, CA)
  

• Horace Mann (San Jose, CA)

• Kennedy (San Jose, CA)

• Learning Without Limits (Oakland, CA)
  

• Los Arboles (San Jose, CA)
  

• Mariano Castro (Mountain View, CA)
  

• Montague (Santa Clara, CA)

• Riverside (San Pablo, CA)

• San Mateo Park (San Mateo, CA)
  

• Sanchez (San Francisco, CA)
  

• Selby Lane (Atherton, CA)
  

• Sherman (San Francisco, CA)
  

• Think College Now Elementary (Oakland, CA)

Staff

Program Managers:

DESIREE PEREZ

Senior Program Manager, East Bay

Desiree received her BA in Child Development with a Multiple Subject Teaching Option from California State University Los Angeles. Always wanting to be part of a community building team, she worked for the City of Los Angeles Commission for Children, Youth and Families and the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment before earning her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential and teaching sixth through eighth grade English and History. She joined Reading Partners in 2008 as the Site Director at Washington Accelerated School in Pasadena, and now manages the East Bay reading centers.

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