51 Read to Succeed Buffalo experience Corps Volunteers Earn President’s Counter Service Award

51 Read to Succeed Buffalo’s Experience Corps volunteers have been awarded this recognition and appreciation for their commitment to strengthen our nation and our communities through volunteer service.

To be eligible to receive the President’s Volunteer Bronze Service Award, a civil award bestowed by the President of the United States, a person is required to volunteer between 100 249 hours over the course of a year. All together Read to Succeed Buffalo Volunteer Tutor/Mentors pro vided nearly 8,000 hours of literacy tutoring support to nearly 300 Buffalo Public School students.

In his letter to each recipient President Biden stated: “Throughout our country’s history, the American story has been strengthened by those who combine an optimism about what can be with the resilience to turn that vision into reality. I know I am not alone in recognizing that those who are willing to step up and volunteer in service of community and country are essential to the ongoing work of forming our more perfect union…We are living in a moment that calls for hope, light, and love. Hope for our futures, light to see our way forward, and love for one another. Through your service, you are provid ing all three.”