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| For Immediate Release: November 13, 2006 |
For more information, contact: Lois Berkowitz CentroNia Phone: 202-797-1150 lberkowitz@centronia.org |
MEDIA ADVISORY
Former Lawyer, Consultant to Receive Award from Mayor
Experience Corps members are among nine finalists to be honored at awards banquet
| WHO | Judy Denny, a retired lawyer who is confined to a wheelchair, has tutored struggling DC students at Bowen Elementary School for four years through Experience Corps. Virginia Lee, a retired communications consultant, is a second-year Experience Corps volunteer at Scott Montgomery Elementary School who has also led a campaign to re-open the school library. |
| WHAT | Awards banquet to honor recipients of the Mayor's Community Service Award. The award competition is sponsored by Serve DC, the community service arm of the Executive Office of the Mayor. |
| WHEN | Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
| WHERE | Academy for Educational Development Conference Center 1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 8th Floor Washington, DC 20009 |
| WHY | Older volunteers are actively engaged in meeting the city's literacy challenges through Experience Corps, an award-winning national program that engages people over 55 in meeting their communities' greatest challenges. Today, 2,000 Experience Corps members in 19 cities tutor and mentor elementary school students. |
| CONTACT | Lois Berkowitz, 202-797-1150, lberkowitz@centronia.org |
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Experience Corps is hosted in Washington, DC by CentroNia. The program engages adults 55+ to help public school students in the District who are having trouble learning to read. Participants tutor elementary school students one-on-one and in small groups, helping them to develop fundamental literacy skills so they can succeed in school and in life. An active mentoring program also pairs men with 4th, 5th, and 6th grade boys who need support to meet academic and behavioral goals.
CentroNia offers quality education and family support programs to hundreds of families in the Washington, DC area. Today, the organization serves infants, toddlers, preschoolers, youth, families, and manages the DC Bilingual Public Charter School. CentroNia began hosting Experience Corps in Washington in August 2006.
