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Experience Corps Program

Experience Corps Baltimore

Experience Corps is an award-winning national program that engages people over 55 in meeting their communities’ greatest challenges. Today, 2,000 Experience Corps members in 22 cities tutor and mentor elementary school students struggling to learn to read.

Program Details

  • Year of Experience Corps project launch: 1998
  • Students served: over 5,000
  • Grades/ages of students served: K-3
  • Experience Corps participants: 282
  • Participant hours logged last school year: 146,000

Schools and centers served:

  • The Barclay School
  • Belmont
  • Brehms Lane
  • Coldstream Park
  • Cross Country
  • Dallas F. Nicholas
  • East Baltimore Community School
  • Furley
  • Gardenville
  • Guilford
  • Highlandtown
  • Hilton
  • James Mosher
  • Lockerman-Bundy
  • Margaret Brent
  • Medfield Heights
  • North Bend
  • Tench Tilghman
  • William Pinderhughes
  • Waverly
 

Program Impact

  • Third graders working with Experience Corps members scored significantly higher on a statewide reading test than students at similar schools without Experience Corps teams.
  • Based on Baltimore City Public School climate surveys, children, staff, and parents perceive that schools participating in Experience Corps have a better overall school climate than matched control schools.
  • 94% of teachers report that students who work with Experience Corps members demonstrate significant academic progress.

Partners and Funders

Lead Agency

Greater Homewood Community Corporation

Community partners

  • Johns Hopkins University Center on Aging and Health
  • Baltimore City Commission on Aging and Retirement
  • Baltimore City Public School System
  • AARP Maryland

Funders

  • Abell Foundation
  • AmeriCorps
  • Baltimore City
  • Baltimore City Women's Giving Circle
  • Baltimore Community Foundation
  • Betty & Dudley Digges Foundation
  • Maryland Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism
  • Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

“Experience Corps contributed significantly to the accomplishments of students in all grades K-3. The volunteers are simply indispensable.”
— Experience Corps Principal

“Ms. B is an asset to me and to my students. She is loving, caring, giving, dependable, and nurturing. The children love her and so do I.”
— Experience Corps Teacher

“This program is so needed for seniors who have so much to contribute during the many years after retirement.”
— Experience Corps member

For information about Experience Corps Baltimore, please call: 443-278-9400