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Martin Luther King Saturday: Help Us Recruit Volunteer Mentors and Tutors
ORGANIZATION: DC Tutoring & Mentoring Initiative
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In the spirit of Martin Luther King, help us build the civic, moral and spiritual foundation for a better world. Two out of three DC students are reading below grade level. Many more have other academic and non-academic needs. If only 5-10% of adults would get involved, we could transform the future for these kids and create a more vibrant, equitable, and sustainable civic culture.
Join us Saturday (Jan. 19) at George Washington University from 10 - 2 pm. We will gather at 10 a.m. for breakfast, conversation, orientation and "civic canvassing" practice. Then break up into teams to canvass at locations around the city to talk to people about getting involved.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s transformed our civic culture by confronting Americans with the wide gap between their deeper values and their actual behavior. We are trying to do the same.
DCTMI "civic canvassers" walk and talk with people at farmers markets, community events and spaces about the need for more people to get involved as tutors and mentors. We ask them if they can help for an hour or two a week to make a difference in the life of a child. If they say yes, we sign them up and then match them with one of our 40+ partner tutoring and mentoring organizations or schools. Equally important, we try to engage people in real conversation about their lives: What they are doing to make a better world and what are their personal thoughts about or barriers to getting more involved.
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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
George Washington UniversityWashington, DC 20052
DATE POSTED
January 11, 2019
SKILLS
- People Skills
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A