Results

Volunteer USA Foundation is a non-profit organization that advocates for education programs as the heart of how we improve families’ lives. We do this by reaching out to local communities through partnerships with other caring nonprofits, businesses, schools and volunteers to improve educational opportunities to families. Here’s a sample of what we’ve accomplished:

• We believe in second chances and our Family Literacy Academies help thousands of moms and dads to learn English as a Second Language or to earn their GED while their child is also learning. We’re proud to share that our parents increase helping their children with home work by a whopping 400%, and that the children in our programs while they start our behind their peers academically with our extra schooling and instruction enter kindergarten on par with their peers.
• We’re particularly proud of Teen Trendsetters™ Reading Mentors a teen-led high school program begun in Florida and as of January 2009 operating in 12 states. We train the teens on reading research and leadership and help them establish programs in their high schools. Teen Trendsetters has been honored with the Harris Wofford Award for best teen program in the nation. 69% of the Florida teens earn a Bright Futures scholarship as compared to 39% of Florida teens.
• Finally, one of our other key areas is experience in long-term disaster recovery and mitigation. Most of our team helped lead the Florida Disaster Recovery Fund from 2004-2007, and have vast experience in working with disaster issues, FEMA, and related programs. We’ve taken those experiences and have developed our own training for families called “Ready or Not”; additionally in June we will launch our south-east US Disaster Recovery Fund, and we’re currently completing the website and commercials and other necessary behind-the-scenes requirements to launch such a massive undertaking.
• In the past year and a half, Volunteer USA has built a formidable training team. We train on average 2000 families a month on disaster recovery, parent involvement, reading, and more. Results are based on pre and post-test evaluations; call us for more details.