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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 >>

Need help reaching boomers?
Appeal to experience (PDF) >

A win for principals
"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." >
– Public/Private Ventures

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 22 cities tutor and mentor elementary school students. >

"In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education. And in this country, the success of our children cannot depend more on where they live than on their potential."

-President Obama, "State of the Union," January 27, 2010

"Together, we can continue our commitment to education innovation by investing in Experience Corps, a program that helps elementary students by increasing the number of older adult tutors and mentors in the classroom. Independent research shows that Experience Corps works: Third-grade reading and math scores are rising and students feel safer at school."

-Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, State of the City Speech, February 22, 2010