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ORGANIZATION: DC Tutoring & Mentoring Initiative
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Help us call volunteers! Honor Martin Luther King Day weekend by being of service. Join us on Saturday, January 18 from 10:30am-1:30pm and help us call volunteers to get local kids the extra support they need. No experience necessary! We will begin with a brief training. Those who attend our Saturday session are welcome to return on Sunday, January 19 if interested.
Sign up and get the Zoom meeting code by using this link: https://forms.gle/9smnMZSiKN1STmT48
We will gather virtually and text and call people who had previously expressed interest in volunteering to tutor or mentor. The goal is to check in to see if they began tutoring/mentoring and to see if they are available to get involved now.
After all, it's a day on, not a day off: MLK is the only federal holiday that's designated by Congress as a day of service!
Please note: You will need a desktop computer with internet access and a cell phone, which you will use for calling the tutoring and mentoring volunteers.
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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
Children & Youth,
Community,
Education & Literacy
WHEN
Sat Jan 18, 2025 - Sun Jan 19, 2025
10:30 AM - 01:30 PM
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
January 10, 2025
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- This is a Done in a Day opportunity and there is no prior training or ongoing commitment needed.
- Orientation or Training
- 2 hours
- You will need to feel comfortable talking to people on your phone , texting people through our database system, and using a simple web-based program to update information on people you contact.