Serveminnesota

Filing Period

Sep 1, 2012 to Aug 31, 2013

Signed

Feb 22, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$25,170,349

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 2012-2013, 150 Math Corps tutors served 3,000 students who need help building their math proficiency. Research in math instruction provides clear direction as to what interventions and techniques have proven to be most successful. Each year an outside evaluator completes a robust program evaluation so that we can understand our impact, as well as make continuous improvements to the model. Our 2011/2012 evaluation indicates that Math Corps is acheiving results. As measured by the Measures for Academic Progress (MAP) assessment, across all grades Math Corps participants are exceeding their growth goals: 80% of 4th graders hit their target growth, 84% of 5th graders, 75% of 6th graders, 59% of 7th graders, and 65% of 8th graders. This means that students are catching up to their peers in the classroom and are making strong progress towards reaching proficiency. In addition, 378 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. And for those students in grades 4 to 7 who still did not pass the exam, the Math Corps model allows them to continue receiving tutoring services the following year.

Filer

EIN

41-2010058