826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.
Meet our Volunteer Engagement and Support Team, also known as V.E.S.T, a group of fantastic, committed volunteers that help us keep your volunteer experience the best possible!
“In homage to vegetables—compliments for carrots, bravo to broccoli, kudos to kohlrabi—about 120 third- and fourth-graders from Bessie Carmichael Elementary School made their way from their South of Market School to the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Public Library and to the nearby Tenderloin Community Garden on Friday, March 23.
How does it feel to be an 826 volunteer? Read this personal tale and get inspired to join the most amazing volunteer force in the world! (We're not kidding!)