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DCTMI College Nights in collaboration with SELF
ORGANIZATION: DC Tutoring & Mentoring Initiative
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Are you looking for something fun to do on Fridays? Something casual? I would like to ask you to volunteer with DCTMI as part of our College Nights, a collaboration with the Student Education and Leadership Fund. We’ll even provide dinner. Promise.
You will be joining us for a fun and rewarding time as we support high school students by helping them learn about post-graduation options and by reviewing their materials for job and college applications.
Put us on your calendar for Friday, May 5th starting at 5:30 pm.
We will be working with students who have brilliant aspirations but who may not have the support system to help them maneuver the complex college admissions process. Without help and support, college attendance may remain an improbable goal for these students rather than a reality.
By joining us, you can inspire a young person and give them the support they need to make the transition from high school to post-secondary education in order to pursue their dreams. And they might just do the same for you, whether your aspirations are to make a difference in someone’s life, build a better community, or simply lend a hand to a student in need.
To understand the difference you can make, see what an impact mentoring and guidance made for Omarina Cabrera in Frontline’s The Education of Omarina at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-education-of-omarina/transcript/
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About DC Tutoring & Mentoring Initiative
Location:
2437 15th Street Northwest, Josephine Butler Parks Center, Washington, DC, DC 20009, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide a tutor or mentor for the 60,000+ students reading below grade level or in need of additional academic or non-academic support in the District of Columbia and, in the process, create a stronger civic culture where we all take more responsibility for one another and for the community as a whole.
Description
We work with 50 partner tutoring and mentoring organizations and schools to help recruit volunteers for them. The foundation for our work is one-on-one canvassing and "civic conversations" with people at farmers markets and other public events and spaces: Only 31% of students in DC are reading at grade level. Teachers, schools and volunteer organizations can't fix education by themselves. Any time of day or day of the week, we are likely to have partner organizations that need help in neighborhoods that are readily accessible to potential volunteers. If we all take a little more responsibility -- typically 2 hours a week -- we can begin to transform educational outcomes and create a model for other communities trying to find shared purposes to bridge the divisions of class, race, and ideology.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
3015 4th Street NEWashington D.C., DC 20017
DATE POSTED
April 13, 2017
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- People Skills
- Teaching / Instruction
- Reading / Writing
- Tutoring
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- 2 hours