Program Details
Year of Experience Corps project launch: 1999
Students served: over 1000 each year
Grades/ages of students served: Grades K-3 (tutoring)
Experience Corps participants: 65
Participant hours logged last school year:
26,064
Schools Served
Schools: Amidon-Bowen Elementary School, William E. Doar Jr. Public Charter School, Kimball Elementary School, West Elementary School, Stanton Elementary School, Whittier Elementary School, Wheatley Elementary School
Requirements for volunteers: Volunteers must be able to commit for the school year. Pre-service training of 15 hours and in-service training of 9 hours are mandatory. To be accepted, volunteers must successfully complete a written application, provide two references, have a personal interview, pass a criminal background check (including fingerprinting), and provide proof of a negative TB test.
What to expect: Tutors serve twice a week for 5 hours in the afternoon; classroom volunteers serve 16 hours per week (11 in the classroom and 5 hours in one-on-one tutoring); mentors serve once a week for 2 hours, after school.
Requirements for volunteers: Volunteers must be able to commit for the school year. Pre-service training of 15 hours and in-service training of 9 hours are mandatory. To be accepted, volunteers must successfully complete a written application, provide two references, have a personal interview, pass a criminal background check (including fingerprinting), and provide proof of a negative TB test.
What to expect: Tutors serve twice a week for 5 hours in the afternoon; classroom volunteers serve 16 hours per week (11 in the classroom and 5 hours in one-on-one tutoring); mentors serve once a week for 2 hours, after school.
Partners and Funders
Lead Agency: CentroNia
Community partners: DC Public Schools, AARP-DC and AARP Maryland, U.S. Capitol Police.
Funders for 2006-2007: Atlantic Philanthropies, Cafritz Foundation, Capitol One, Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation, National Service Trust, The Dreyfus Foundation, Gannett Foundation, MARPAT Foundation, National Home Library Foundation, The Hattie Mae Strong Foundation, the Philip L. Graham Fund, The Department of Education, The Washington Post.
Community partners: DC Public Schools, AARP-DC and AARP Maryland, U.S. Capitol Police.
Funders for 2006-2007: Atlantic Philanthropies, Cafritz Foundation, Capitol One, Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation, National Service Trust, The Dreyfus Foundation, Gannett Foundation, MARPAT Foundation, National Home Library Foundation, The Hattie Mae Strong Foundation, the Philip L. Graham Fund, The Department of Education, The Washington Post.
Community Involvement
Experience Corps member Gloria Thomas provided testimony at Community Involvement for Older Adults, a Senate briefing held on November 25, 2008. The event was sponsored by U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and The Gerontological Society of America.
Pictured left to right: Gloria Thomas, Experience Corps member, Wahidah Abdullah, Experience Corps site coordinator, Joan Edwards and Natalie Black, Experience Corps members, (all Experience Corps members tutor at the Amidon Elementary School in Washington, DC) John Gomperts, CEO of Experience Corps, Elizabeth Fox, Experience Corps Senior Advisor, Senator Harris Wofford, board member, Civic Ventures and Madeline Gitomer, staff member for Senator Chris Dodd.
