猫咪AV

For Immediate Release

Contact:

Christine Messick, Director of Community Engagement

猫咪AV SC

843-830-3230 |聽christine.messick@readingpartners.org

Local nonprofit鈥檚 2021-22 impact results show critical support for students, schools, and communities

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – September 12, 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 47% more local students in the 2021-22 school year than the year before.

鈥淭he pandemic exacerbated the literacy crisis here in SC, where only 20% of at-risk students are reading proficiently by the end of fourth grade,鈥� said executive director, Kecia Greenho. 鈥淚t has been estimated that students have lost an additional seven months to a year鈥檚 worth of learning, so we need community volunteers to serve as tutors now more than ever. Reading is foundational – the ability to read transforms lives and empowers children and communities to thrive.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 South Carolina.

• 361 students received 12+ sessions of one-on-one tutoring

• 8,275 total tutoring sessions were delivered to those same students

• 71% of sessions were delivered online via 猫咪AV Connects

• 343 community tutors supported students

• 90% of volunteers were satisfied with their experience

• Learn more about 猫咪AV鈥� impact in South Carolina聽.

• Learn about 猫咪AV鈥� national impact聽.

In addition to reaching a lot of students, 猫咪AV South Carolina achieved impressive student performance. In 2021-22, 79% of all 猫咪AV students finished the year meeting or exceeding their primary end-of-year literacy growth goals, while 89% of K-2 猫咪AV students were developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read and grade level.

Heading into the new school year, 猫咪AV South Carolina anticipates needing more than 800 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.