Important Challenge Grant – Contribute Today!

Friends of ACTS Tutoring
We need your help to meet a Matching Grant Challenge
The Peabody Foudation has awarded ACTS a challenge grant of $5000.
The grant will be awarded if we are able to raise $5000 in new donations by
Dec. 1st
Please give to ACTS today and help us match the Challenge Grant and recieve $10,000!!

A Message From Our Director

Well summer is almost over and the activity that tells that school is about to open is occurring. Parents are buying back to school clothes, and backpacks are starting to fill up with school supplies for the coming new school year. Here at ACTS, we too are getting ready for another new school year. The last two and a half years have been  a challenge due to the covid-19 pandemic restrictions. But we were able to pivot and still provide tutoring services at four of our seven sites. We are looking forward to reopening all of our previous sites and hope to open three new sites by the Spring of 2023.  I appreciate the dedication and continued hard work our site directors and tutors, especially demonstrated during the pandemic. Truly they are the heart and soul of our ACTS ministry!

The pandemic has left many children further behind and with little resources to catch up. Research by school systems and educational foundations, such as the Brooking Institute, indicate that the lost reading and math skills, called “Covid-slide”, will be hard to make up for many children, especially for younger children who just started attending school during the pandemic and are now in 2nd and 3rd grade. Their lack of some of the basic and fundamental skills, they would have learned in earlier grades but missed because schools were closed, or because they were unable to participate in hybrid class situations, put them at a greater disadvantage. But that’s why ACTS exists, to give that extra help to those elementary school children who need it most.

As we prepare to reopen and recruit not only new students but also new tutors and site directors, we hope you will consider joining our  team of dedicated and caring tutors and site directors in fulfilling our mission to make a continued difference – one child at a time! Please contact us about becoming a tutor or site director today!

In ministry together, Dr. Barbara Headley

Mission

We are a community where elementary children thrive academically, relationally, and spiritually. Our mission is provide free one-to-one tutoring and mentoring to the elementary children of Springfield, in the Spirit of Christ.

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About Us

We are backed by area professionals, and designed to meet the educational, relational and spiritual needs of the children served. We serve children who have been identified by their schools and/or parents as needing improvement in reading and math skills.

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Students

ACTS seeks to serve elementary school children of Springfield who need some extra help in reading and/or math. The service is provided free on a one-to-one basis with a caring volunteer.

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Volunteer

ACTS is the ONLY one-to-one, faith based tutoring and mentoring program in Springfield. There is always a great need for caring adults. For each student to be enrolled, an adult needs to volunteer.

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Everyone Needs A Helping Hand…

ACTS seeks to serve elementary school children of Springfield who need some extra help in reading and/or math. The service is provided free on a one-to-one basis with a caring volunteer. ACTS may not be able to meet any special needs that your child may have. However, if you are the parent of an elementary school child in Springfield in need of tutoring, please print the application form, complete it and return it to: ACTS – 35 Chestnut Street Springfield, MA 01103

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