"It's like a job. You have goals. You see results" -Yuriy, Experience Corps Member

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Johns Hopkins University researchers document Experience Corps impact. Students earn significantly higher test scores while tutors realize improvements in mental and physical health. Results point to cost-effective "win-win" for students, schools and community.
Read the Executive Summary of Hopkins Research >>

Want to tap into experienced leadership? Check-out the Experience Corps tool kit for key findings from Experience Corps leadership institutes. It's packed with resources to develop adult leadership programs.
Download the free tool kit >>

Harvard professor cites Experience Corps as a "social-capital success story." Robert Putnam's Better Together: Restoring the American Community devotes a chapter to Experience Corps to illustrate the "extraordinary power and subtlety of social networks to enable people to improve their lives."
More about Robert Putnam's book >>

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"Principals, coping with the press of ever-rising academic expectations and administrative challenges, have no time for programs that do not serve their purposes. Experience Corps has won their allegiance and respect."
– Policy Studies Associates

An award-winning program
Experience Corps is an award-winning national program that engages people over 55 in meeting their communities' greatest challenges. 2,000 Experience members in 20 cities tutor and mentor elementary school students.

Experience Corps will join
Service Nation´s
Day of Action
September 27, 2008