Schools, partners, funders
Experience Corps impact
Educators, members and community leaders
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"It's like a job. You have goals. You see results" -Yuriy, Experience Corps Member

Program Details

Washington, DC Program Details Year of Experience Corps project launch: 1999

Students served: over 1000 each year

Grades/ages of students served: Grades K-3 (tutoring); Grades 4-6 (mentoring)

Experience Corps participants: 100

Participant hours logged last school year:
26,064


 

Schools Served

Southeast: Birney Elementary School, Kimball Elementary School

Southwest: Bowen Elementary School

Northeast: William E. Doar, Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts, Webb Elementary School

Northwest: Bruce Monroe Elementary, Montgomery Elementary School, West Elementary School, Whittier 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.
 

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 Involvement

Washington, DC 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.



 
Taffanie Ketema
Project Director
Experience Corps
Phone: 202-332-4200 x 126
tketema@centronia.org

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