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Be a community organizer! Recruit tutors and mentors with DCTMI!
ORGANIZATION: DC Tutoring & Mentoring Initiative
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The DC Tutoring & Mentoring Initiative places tutors and mentors with the 2 out of 3 DC students reading below grade level or with other academic or non-academic needs. We recruit new volunteers at farmers markets, outdoor movie nights, and other public events and places and then match them with our 40+ partner tutoring, mentoring and after-school programs and schools based on when and where the volunteers are available.
We need your help recruiting volunteers! Join us at weekly tabling and canvassing events. Become part of a local movement, practice your interpersonal skills, and spread the message about our mission! Most importantly, become part of a community that is dedicated to making a better world -- here and now for DC and DMV kids and longer term, for our democracy.
Ready to sign up? Visit http://www.dctutormentor.org/ and indicate your interest in outreach, tabling or canvassing! We'll contact you about upcoming events.
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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
2437 15th Street NWWashington, DC 20009
DATE POSTED
September 7, 2019
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- Public Advocacy
- Relationship Building
- Youth Services
- Tutoring
- Community Outreach
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- One hour a week!
- A commitment to changing our society!