• Assessing the qualifications of prospective tutors
• Building community by empowering youth in ten ways
• Building effective programs for summer learning
• Building partnerships through work- study
• Building strong relationships in mentoring programs
• Building successful tutor-student relationships
• Choosing and using a literacy model
• Collaborating with a university to train reading tutors
• Creating a successful online mentoring program
• Creating productive one-on-one adult/child tutoring
• Designing a family literacy program
• Designing volunteer literacy programs for successful intergenerational tutoring
• Developing a community adult literacy program
• Developing a tutoring program
• Developing an intergenerational pen pal project
• Developing and implementing a cross-age tutoring program
• Developing character education book lists to build civic responsibility and increase literacy in a community
• Developing service project ideas for younger children
• Donating used textbooks
• Encouraging leadership in girls with an after-school program
• Engaging parents and adults in educational activities at school
• Establishing a responsible mentoring program
• Establishing an outdoor-based mentoring program
• Getting parents involved with tutoring efforts
• Helping discouraged learners
• Helping students complete their homework: tips for parents
• Helping students feel comfortable about being tutored or mentored
• Helping tutors empathize with new readers
• Helping with homework and academic skill-building during out-of-school time
• Helping youth use technology for social change
• Holding a poetry contest to educate youth about watershed ecology
• Identifying ten characteristics of quality mentoring programs
• Implementing a statewide reading program for elementary students
• Implementing a team-tutoring program for literacy instruction
• Improving students' reading skills through tutoring
• Incorporating effective practices for successful e-mentoring
• Increasing literacy and good will with an intergenerational pen pal program
• Increasing literacy by dramatizing books with elementary school children
• Increasing the success rate of one-to-one youth mentoring with a survey
• Increasing vocabulary with a kinesthetic activity
• Introducing nouns to students
• Involving families in tutoring programs
• Keeping schools open during non-school hours
• Matching volunteer mentors with adults working towards self-sufficiency
• Mentoring adolescents
• Motivating students to complete homework
• Motivating students with homework stations
• Organizing a one-day community book drive
• Organizing reading fairs for parents of young children
• Partnering with faith-based institutions to increase literacy among low-income students
• Planning activities for out-of-school programs
• Preventing youth from becoming victims of cyberbullying
• Promoting literacy through service projects
• Promoting reading and literacy in out-of-school programs
• Providing summer youth activities
• Providing young people with authentic writing activities: ten tips
• Publishing seniors' WWII memories and sharing them with students
• Recruiting mentors in tribal/rural communities: ten tips
• Sharing between seniors and elementary school students
• Sharing literacy skills with grade school children
• Solving problems in mentoring programs
• Starting a career development tutoring/mentoring program in ten steps
• Starting a multi-state intergenerational pen pal buddy program
• Starting an out-of-school program
• Supporting at-risk youth with summer high school preparatory programs
• Supporting young readers
• Teaching literacy in the classroom
• Teaching reading skills to K-3 students with volunteers
• Teaching students to recognize uppercase and lowercase letters
• Training intergenerational tutors in diversity
• Training new after-school volunteers
• Training parents as literacy tutors
• Understanding mentoring opportunities
• Using a character tree to keep track of a story
• Using a family-oriented approach to English as a Second Language instruction
• Using community-based service-learning as a strategy during out-of-school time
• Using family clubs to maintain community well being
• Using literature to connect girls and teach technology
• Using ten techniques to sustain a successful mentoring relationship
• Using the assets model to understand adolescent development
• Using thematic backpacks to encourage family literacy
• Utilizing Foster Grandparents to increase literacy during summer break
• Writing a policies and procedures manual for a youth mentoring program

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