The Santa Maria Public Library Foundation is spearheading a fundraising campaign to help bridge the gap caused by shrinking budgets that aren’t meeting the growing need of the Santa Maria Library system’s diverse communities. The foundation is working to develop a Homework Help Center that will assist local students, but the goals of such a program are ambitious, and the foundation needs donations to make the project happen.
The Homework Help Center would meet a variety of needs for students of all income levels who would benefit from tutoring, materials, and access to technology—help that is sometimes hard for low-income students to obtain. One bilingual lead tutor will oversee general homework assistance, working with volunteer tutors, participants, and teachers. Other aspects of the program will include access to an online tutoring program called Brain Fuse, and the addition of several computers. The program needs more than $18,000 in order to begin in 2016.
More information is available through the Santa Maria Public Library Foundation at 925-0951, Ext. 322, or 925-0727.
This article appears in Dec 17-24, 2015.