Serveminnesota

Filing Period

Sep 1, 2011 to Aug 31, 2012

Signed

Apr 13, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$21,220,131

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

AmeriCorps - AmeriCorps, also known as the domestic Peace Corps, provides opportunities for citizens to give to their communities and country each year. People who join AmeriCorps commit to a year of service in exchange for a modest living stipend and an education award that can be applied to past or future schooling. AmeriCorps is a real-life education and work experience wrapped into one. The AmeriCorps motto is "Get Things Done" and members do a wide range of things to fulfill that mission: They tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, help communities respond to disasters, and build the capacity of nonprofit groups to become self-sustaining. They also recruit, train and supervise community volunteers to extend and complement their community efforts. Since its creation in 1994, ServeMinnesota has mobilized nearly 10,000 AmeriCorps members who have trained and supported more than 300,000 volunteers.

Activity 3

Math Corps - Minnesota Math Corps is an AmeriCorps program modeled after the Reading Corps and is designed to help 4th-8th graders achieve proficiency in math, a critical gateway skill for high school graduation; college admission and college completion. Math Corps provides schools with a tool to bridge the gap between current math research and the capacity of districts to apply that research within their classrooms. Rigorously trained members supported by math experts not only achieve results for individual students but also serve as a start-up team for school sites that want and need support to implement a data-based problem solving model of math instruction. In 2011-2012, 65 Math Corps tutors served 1,400 students who need help building their math proficiency. In the most recent program evaluation, 73.6% of the students tutored by Minnesota Math Corps members demonstrated academic growth that exceeded the expected target rate of growth for their grade, as measured by the nationally-normed Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment. This means that students are catching up to their peers in the classroom and are making strong progress towards reaching proficiency. In addition, 116 students who had not met the proficiency standard on the state-administered MCA exam in the year prior to receiving Math Corps tutoring, moved to being proficient at the end of the year in which they were tutored.

Filer

EIN

41-2010058