Volunteer to help provide books for kids!
Do you have a passion for children’s literacy and exposing young children to the wonderful world of books? Do you want to help RIF NOVA put children’s books in the hands of deserving children in our community so they can build home libraries — a key metric to reading success?
If so, RIF NOVA could use your help! Please let us know your interest in helping by email at info@rifnova.org or by filling out the contact link below.
Leadership: Do you have skills running an organization? Do you have financial or organizational skills? Again, we could use your help to work with schools, parent-teacher organizations, businesses, and more! Please join our board!
Fundraising: Fundraising is our most pressing need as the federal government no longer funds many literacy programs, including RIF NOVA. All of our funding needs to be raised locally. Soliciting business sponsors and helping with other fundraising activities significantly increases the number of books we can supply to children in our community.
Grant Writing: Grants may be available to help raise funds. Do you have grant-writing skills or experience? Please let us know!
Event planning and support: Do you like to plan events? If so, we would love your help! For example, planning and staging our biannual Book It For Books 5K (last held in October 2025) requires a small army of helpers. Another need is help throughout the year with book distribution events in schools and at community events to give out books and maybe even play our mascot Clifford!
Program Development: Do you have an idea for a book distribution that would help provide books and contribute to active learning? Let us know. Pitch it! Let’s brainstorm it! Let’s make it happen!
Social media expertise: Do you have experience with successful social media outreach? If so, we would use your help to spread the word about RIF NOVA’s many activities!
Book drives: Interested in setting up a book drive to collect new and/or (very) gently used books? Would you like to help distribute books at book donation events? If so, come join us. Wait until you see the joy on a child’s face when receiving a book to own!