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Santa Fe Public Schools: 322 volunteers logged 14,121 hours; pilot “volunteer circles” aim to expand support
Summary
In a podcast for Volunteer Appreciation Week, Santa Fe Public Schools volunteer coordinator Sabra Romero said the district has 322 volunteers who logged 14,121 hours in the 25-26 school year (valued at about $500,000). A pilot "volunteer circle" at Mandela is being used as a model for expansion to other schools.
Santa Fe Public Schools volunteer coordinator Sabra Romero said the district currently has 322 volunteers who logged 14,121 hours in the 25-26 school year, a contribution she estimated saved the district about $500,000 using a national volunteer value of $34.79 per hour.
The comments came on the Inside Santa Fe Public Schools podcast as hosts and guests marked National Volunteer Appreciation Week (April 19–25). Romero described volunteers’ roles across the district — classroom support, tutoring, morning/lunch/after-school duty, cafeteria assistance, administrative support and work with the Adelante program — and said most volunteers take the summer off while some support summer programming.
Diane Atwell, a longtime volunteer who began…
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