My Nonprofit Reviews

CRS is such an amazing organization. The team is extremely flexible and supportive and is able to provide real impact to elementary school students in an unbiased way. I've been teaching a hands-on science class on microorganisms to 4th and 5th graders once a month for more than a year and it's been fantastic!

What I love about their BASIS program:
1) It provides science education to all students regardless of socioeconomic situation because lessons occur during regular school periods
2) Lessons are engaging and focus on scientific thinking rather than memorization - lessons are always hands on and emphasize hypotheses and the scientific method
3) Scheduling is flexible and the CRS team is supportive (I'm a strategy consultant with a very unpredictable schedule; CRS has been great about helping me find times to volunteer around my busy periods)

I mentored an amazing 8th grade student from January to May. Magic is such a well-organized group, which provides significant assistance to mentors via monthly meetings and a supportive network of mentors. My mentee and I were both interested in biology and genetics, so we chose projects in those fields. We decided on a set of projects that aligned with my mentees other interests too, focusing on the theme of super bugs. After some background research, my mentee drove the project by designing a grade level experiment to see how many people could be infected by an imaginary bacteria AND filmed and produced a public service announcement on the topic. Great experience!