Older Americans Helping Children

Experience Corps enables older Americans to serve their communities and help children succeed in school.

The Experience Corps is a successful program with three goals:

• to give older adults a meaningful place to put their energies;
• to help older adults make an enduring contribution to their communities;
• to share the benefits of their experience with the next generation of schoolchildren in need of role models and academic support.

And it’s working. Every year we are learning, improving, and expanding to help more students and give more volunteers a chance to serve.

Today, over 1,000 Experience Corps volunteers are tutoring and mentoring public school children in a dozen cities across the country.

CSS believes that volunteers are most successful in their own communities. Most of our volunteers come from and live in the neighborhoods they serve. They reflect the area’s ethnic/racial composition and have a stake in the education of its children.

Experience Corps, part of a Civic Ventures initiative, is hosted in New York City by the Community Service Society (CSS), through which over 150 volunteers (ages 55 and over) tutor one-on-one and assist in classrooms for children at risk of developing reading difficulties.

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