CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC

DC Tutoring & Mentoring Initiative: The goal of DCTMI is to create a public campaign to get a volunteer tutor or mentor for the 2 out of 3 DC students reading below grade level (60,000+ students) or with other academic or non-academic needs -- but also to do something even bigger: Show that a community can work together around a shared civic and moral vision. We recruit and place volunteers with 50 partner tutoring and mentoring organizations and schools. The foundation for our work has been through volunteer canvassing at farmers markets and other public events and spaces. We also do outreach to religious congregations and employers, and use social media, virtual and in-person volunteer fairs and other approaches. We measure our results both in terms of short-term recruitment and long-term change in our civic culture. In 2024, more than 6,000 people signed up to volunteer or asked us to provide them with 2 or 3 concrete choices where they could volunteer based on when and where they were available.

The Community Platform is a web-based and mobile-friendly application hosted by our nonprofit or university partner organizations. The goal is to provide locally-customable sites that permit nonprofits, funders, students and community members to map and understand where services are being delivered in relationship to community needs, share information and resources, and encourage people and businesses to become more involved as volunteers and donors. We continued to support four Community Platform sites in 2024.