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- EIN 52-1975043
- (202) 340-9699
- 120 Q Street Ne Washington DC 20002 USA
- http://www.headsup-dc.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development, Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy, Remedial Reading & Encouragement, Youth Development Programs
Mission: The mission of heads up is to provide children and youth from low income neighborhoods with the academic skills they need to succeed and to provide college students the opportunity to understand those needs in order to promote their development as leaders motivated to effect social change.
Programs: Youth program founded in in 1996, heads up operates after school tututoring and summer learning programs for children living low income areas of washington dc. Heads up draws on university students as it's tutors, mentors and instructors. Heads up aims to improve the academic performance and reading grade levels of students in low performing public schools while meeting the afterschool and summer childcare needs of their parents. The youth program of heads up served approx 850 students k-5th grade students druing the 2009-2010 school year.
college program, heads up recruited, trained and managed over 200 college students who served as tutors and mentors for our k-5 students.
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