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About Experience Corps

Jump down to: Oakland or San Rafael

 

San Francisco

Year of Experience Corps project launch: 1998

Students served: 1,220

Grades served: K-8th grade

Experience Corps participants: 73

Participant hours logged last school year: 15,140

Schools and neighborhoods served:

  • A.P. Giannini Middle School (Sunset)
  • Everett Middle School (Mission)
  • Francis Scott Key Elementary School (Sunset)
  • Hillcrest Elementary School (Portola/Excelsior)
  • Lafayette Elementary School (Richmond)
  • Malcolm X Academy (Bayview Hunters Point)
  • Marshall Elementary School (Mission)
  • Paul Revere School (Bernal Heights)
  • Sanchez Elementary School (Mission)
  • Sunset Elementary School (Sunset)

Requirements for volunteers: Application, interview, background check (fingerprinting), TB test, 8 hours of pre-service training, monthly team meeting

To get involved, contact: Star Bressler at 415-759-3690 or sbressler@snbc.org.

 

Oakland

Year of Experience Corps project launch: 2005

Students served: 330

Grades served: K-5th grade

Experience Corps participants: 26

Participant hours logged last school year: 3,540

Schools and neighborhoods served:

  • Emerson Elementary School (North Oakland)
  • Civicorps Elementary School(North Oakland)
  • Monarch Academy (East Oakland)
  • Piedmont Avenue Elementary (North Oakland)
  • Santa Fe Elementary School (North Oakland)

Requirements for volunteers: Application, interview, background check (fingerprinting), TB test, 8 hours of pre-service training, monthly team meeting

To get involved, contact: Jessica Bullen at 510-495-4966 or jbullen_ec@yahoo.com.

 

San Rafael (Marin County)

Year of Experience Corps project launch: 2007

Students served: 40

Grades served: K-5th grade

Experience Corps participants: 5

Participant hours logged last school year: data will be posted as soon as it becomes available

Schools and neighborhoods served:

  • Venetia Valley Elementary School (Santa Venetia Valley, northern San Rafael)
  • San Pedro Elementary School (San Rafael)
  • 1 new school TBD in January 2008

Requirements for volunteers: Application, interview, background check (fingerprinting), TB test, 8 hours of pre-service training, monthly team meeting

To get involved, contact: Alicia Harnett at 415-464-1767 or aharnett@ncphs.org.

 

Through Experience Corps, children improve academic performance and build lasting relationships with caring volunteers, older adults experience enhanced physical and mental well-being, and Bay Area public schools become more caring and personal places, strengthening their ties with surrounding neighborhoods.

In the 2006-2007 school year:

  • 80% of students tutored one-on-one made significant to extremely significant academic progress.
  • 78% of students tutored one-on-one made significant to extremely significant improvement in self-confidence.
  • 99% of Experience Corps members reported being satisfied with their tutoring experience.
  • 98% of members agreed their service was useful to the community.
  • 100% of members agreed that their service was useful to the school.
  • 100% of members agreed that Experience Corps enabled them to better understand the needs of students at the site.
  • 85% of members agreed that Experience Corps enabled them to better understand the needs of the community in which they serve.
  • 82% of members agreed that Experience Corps service allowed them to socialize with other adults.
  • 95% of members agreed that Experience Corps allowed them to learn about new topics.

Bay Area Lead Agency: Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center / Aspiranet

Host Partner in Marin County: Northern California Presbyterian Homes & Services, a provider of options for retirement living and community service for older adults in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Community Partners

National Support

  • Experience Corps (national network connecting Experience Corps projects in over 20 cities across the country)
  • Civic Ventures (think tank and incubator focused on generating ideas and inventing programs to help society achieve the greatest return on experience)

Funders