TeamUp Volunteer and Partnership Council – Connecting Community To Schools What we do We connect the community with schools to benefit students. For fortyfive years the Council has carried out our nonprofit mission to provide manpower and funding to recruit train and support schoolbased volunteers and partners to help Sarasota County School District students improve academically and become proud productive community members. As the nonprofit organization established in 1979 to support volunteerism and partnerships solely for Sarasota County district schools we know that volunteers and partners in schools Why we do it How you can help As a volunteerrun nonprofit the TeamUP Volunteer Partnership Council raises funds and puts in the hours to support programs in line with our mission. Currently our primary initiative is theRockin Reader program a readaloud program that improves Kindergarten and First Grade students prereading skills by pairing them with a volunteer reader.