{"id":97286,"date":"2026-02-25T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=97286"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:59:32","slug":"utoledo-volunteers-promote-literacy-at-community-service-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_25_2026\/utoledo-volunteers-promote-literacy-at-community-service-event","title":{"rendered":"UToledo Volunteers Promote Literacy at Community Service Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Toledo students shared stories with area families during a literacy-themed community service event on Monday, Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Students, faculty and staff collaborated with the Art Tatum Zone, a local nonprofit led by alumni Calvin and Christine Sweeney, to organize the event, which welcomed families from Toledo\u2019s Junction neighborhood to Toledo Public School\u2019s Jones Leadership Academy of Business.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 student volunteers participated in the evening\u2019s programming aimed at fostering a love of reading in children and equipping their parents and caregivers with practical strategies to support their literacy development outside of school.<\/p>\n<p>Several UToledo colleges and departments are collaborating on the event, including the Jesup Scott Honors College, the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Studies and the Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education\u2019s Department of Teacher Education, Department of Political Science and Public Administration and Herb Innovation Center.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97287\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97287\" class=\"wp-image-97287\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LITERACY-20260223_231349717.jpg\" alt=\"A female University of Toledo student shares a story with a young boy during a literacy-themed community service event on Monday, Feb. 23.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LITERACY-20260223_231349717.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LITERACY-20260223_231349717-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 40 UToledo student volunteers shared stories with area families during a literacy-themed community service event on Feb. 23.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students, faculty and staff collaborated with the Art Tatum Zone, a local alumni-led nonprofit, on the event at Jones Leadership Academy of Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":97287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,36,498,1,42,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97300,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97286\/revisions\/97300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}