One-to-One Mentoring for youths in DC, MD, VA; Teen pregnancy Prevention Program in DC. School-Based Mentoring program in DC and PG County. Opportunities for volunteer mentoring withthe Nation's premier one-to-one mentoring organization

Brainfood is seeking a Classroom/Kitchen Intern for our afterschool program! Work with great people, make a difference to DC's youth, AND get a stipend and school credit at the same time. Brainfood is a community-based organization that promotes the positive growth of young people through enriching culinary-related activities to expand their skills, creativity and self-esteem, boost their academic performance and improve their personal health and well-being.

Hands on D.C. is an all-volunteer effort to improve the environment in and around D.C. public schools while raising college scholarship moneyfor low-income students. Our April 18 work-a-thon helps communities get involved in their schools, and invests in our city's young people by giving them the financial and academic support they need to finish school and attend college.

Kids Computer Workshop is seeking volunteers who can give an hour a week to a child. KCW works with at-risk kids at its lab on 1325 W. St. in the Shaw neighborhood (next to Adams-Morgan and the U St. corridor). We teach computer skills to the kids. We also provide academic tutoring to the kids and help them do community service projects. You can learn about KCW at www.kcw.org .KCW welcomes volunteers who have strong computer skills. BUT WE ALSO NEED YOU IF YOU CAN HELP TUTOR READING AND WRITING -- EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO COMPUTER SKILLS.Tutors are needed M-Th after work. Volunteers work with kids ages 7-12. Volunteers give approximately an hour per week.To volunteer, please contact Darin Kenley, Executive Director at kcwdk@aol.com. Or visit www.kcw.org . Or write or call Kids Computer Workshop, 1325 W. St. NW, Wash DC 20009 -- TELEPHONE: 202 483 8404. Many thanks for helping to bridge the Digital Divide.

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A leader in youth development in the National Capital Area, Big Brothers/Big Sisters is dedicated to buildingOne-To-One® mentoring relationships that unite children from single-parent families with caring and committed adultvolunteers. Agency programs aim to positively and profoundly affect a child’s self-esteem, self-confidence, academicperformance, and relationship-building skills, while instilling new hope for the future.

TTP seeks to foster a life-long love of learning in DC Public School children and thereby increase their educational achievement by creating a resource-rich school community that encourages parental involvement, voluntary reading and learning. TTP is implementing Community Nights at the Library to accomplish this mission. Families attend and are served dinner. Then the parents attend a workshop on the importance of reading with their children while their children are read to by family mentors. TTP is currently looking for family mentors to spend 4 evenings per academic semester in the school reading and engaging in activities with the children.

Volunteer Emergency Families for Children's mission is helping children and youth in crisis. VEFC recruits, trains and supports volunteers who provide short-term shelter care and mentoring to abused, neglected, runaway, homeless and at-risk children and youth in Virginia.