Civic Leadership Project Inc

Programs: Dc tutoring & mentoring initiative: the goal of dctmi is to create a public campaign to get a volunteer tutor or mentor for the 2 out of 3 dc students reading below grade level (60,000+ students) or with other academic or non-academic needs -- but also to do something even bigger: show that a community can work together around a shared civic and moral vision. We recruit and place volunteers with 40 partner tutoring and mentoring organizations and schools. The foundation for our work is through volunteer canvassing at farmers markets and other public events and spaces. We also do outreach to religious congregations and employers, and use social media and other approaches. We measure our results both in terms of short-term recruitment and long-term change in our civic culture. Our concrete successes are modest at this point - we are recruiting hundreds of people each year and not the tens of thousands that is our goal. That said, just as we all have learned that physical exercise is not just for serious athletes but is the foundation for healthy bodies and minds, so we believe that our holistic approach focused on building our "civic muscles and skills" and changing our civic culture will be most successful in the long run, although we are still learning how best to implement this approach.

the community platform is a web-based and mobile-friendly application hosted by our partner organizations - community foundations, state nonprofit associations, united ways, universities and others - in more than a dozen communities and states around the country. The goal is to provide locally-customable sites that permit nonprofits, funders, students and community members to map and understand where services are being delivered in relationship to community needs, share information and resources, and encourage people and businesses to become more involved as volunteers and donors.

form 990 online is a web-based system that permits nonprofit organizations and their preparers to create their irs form 990s online and either electronically file their return with the irs or print them and mail them in. In 2016, the system was used by more than 12,000 organizations and is completely free for the nearly 6,000 organizations that reported less than $100,000 in revenue. In addition, we support state charity registrations in collaboration with the states of new york, hawaii and michigan.