Jumpstart

Description

Description

Jumpstart's mission is to work toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Jumpstart pursues this goal by recruiting and training dedicated adults, called Corps members, to deliver an innovative early literacy program via yearlong, individualized relationships with children from low-income households. Through these relationships, Jumpstart inspires children to learn, adults to teach, families to become involved in their children's education, and communities to progress together. Since its founding at Yale University in 1993 as a 15-student, campus-based volunteer program, Jumpstart has grown into a national organization that will engage nearly 4,000 Corps members to serve almost 15,000 preschool children across 20 states and the District of Columbia, in partnership with 300 preschools and 74 universities this year.