Recruits more than 2,000 professionals to provide after-school apprenticeships to low-income middle-school students. During 11 weeks, kids work with these volunteers to create professional-quality projects, from a solar-powered fountain to a mock trial.
Citizen Schools serves 3,000 students in 15 cities. In a longitudinal study, 72% of its eighth graders enrolled in college-track high schools, more than double the norm.
Recruits and trains young adults for a year of full-time civic service in 16 U.S. sites and one in South Africa. Corps members serve as tutors and mentors in after-school programs and summer camps, and engage in physical projects, too.
Since 1988, more than 9,000 corps members have worked 14.5 million volunteer hours. City Year alums are 45% more likely to vote and 65% more likely to volunteer than peers.
Develops affordable charter schools in New York's poorest neighborhoods, including the first under a massive new city initiative. Uses GIS mapping software to evaluate geography and demographics for optimal school locations.
Since 2002, Civic Builders has completed two charter schools in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn, serving a total of 1,400 students. Two more schools are in the works.
Engages older adults in social action through work and service. Its Experience Corps includes 2,000 people over the age of 55 who volunteer as tutors and mentors in public schools. Its Purpose Prize, started in 2006, recognizes social entrepreneurs and innovators over 60.
Experience Corps has served 20,000 students in 19 American cities since 1995. Civic Ventures' national surveys on aging get wide attention.
Aims to raise college enrollment among students from low-income neighborhoods. Trained Peer Leaders, who are applying for college themselves, serve as "influencers" to help others with applications. Students are paired with teachers and counselors to ease the transition from high school.
College Summit should serve 7,300 students in the 2006/2007 school year, a 100% increase over two years ago. Eighty percent of Peer Leaders graduate from college.
Makes loans and grants and provides expertise to developers of supportive housing--affordable homes with services targeting the poor, ill, and addicted. Works to dispel public perceptions of homelessness as intractable and to streamline government funding for supportive housing.
Since 1991, CSH has raised more than $221 million--and made nearly $119 million in loans and grants to help create more than 17,000 housing units.
I tend to see things going this way as well. I'm certain this won't stop at drug use and party behavior (which is actually a ridiculous qualifier as some of the best employees I've seen partied hard on the weekends). What happens when you're denied a job because of some political or religious views you espouse on blog that the HR person doesn't agree with? You know, the kind of information they aren't allowed to ask you in an interview setting. If it can't be asked in an interview they shouldn't be allowed to go looking for that info online. But, I guess you can always make your profiles private so only people you want to see them can.
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August 20, 2009 at 6:30am by Jesica Semon
I tend to see things going this way as well. I'm certain this won't stop at drug use and party behavior (which is actually a ridiculous qualifier as some of the best employees I've seen partied hard on the weekends). What happens when you're denied a job because of some political or religious views you espouse on blog that the HR person doesn't agree with? You know, the kind of information they aren't allowed to ask you in an interview setting. If it can't be asked in an interview they shouldn't be allowed to go looking for that info online. But, I guess you can always make your profiles private so only people you want to see them can.