Seed funded by Echoing Green in 2003, we now work with tutoring, mentoring and teacher education programs reaching more than 20,000 students worldwide.

Organizations use our Performance Measurement & Learning Network to ensure that their educators (tutors, pre-service teachers, mentors) have the skills and knowledge needed for success while reducing the amount of time and money spent on reporting, performance measurement and evaluation.  The Network is especially ideal for child- and adult-focused literacy programs.

Recently, we've begun to work with public and private grantmakers as well, harnessing the power of our Network to help grantmakers track the progress of and provide personalized support to their grantees worldwide.

The Reasons We're Here

We were born out of our founder's experience of volunteering to tutor children and then finding that his program's staff were often overwhelmed with a myriad of responsibilities and that the volunteers (himself included), though full of good intentions, often lacked the necessary knowledge and competencies to provide high quality services to the students.

After interviewing and surveying hundreds of on-the-ground tutors, academic mentors and program staff members around the types of support they feel they need to best serve their students, we spent three years developing a service that accomplishes the goals listed above and discussed in greater depth here.

Who We Serve

Organizations working in 19 countries worldwide are using the Network today.  Here's a partial list of our Network members:

- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nevada County

- Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate

- Cal Corps Public Service Center at UC Berkeley

- Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning

- Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

- Children Uniting Nations / Mentoring Partnership for Los Angeles Youth

- City of Lakes AmeriCorps

- City Year Chicago

- Dwight Hall at Yale

- Duke University - Project H.O.P.E.

- Duke University Teacher Preparation Program

- English at Work

- Georgetown University's DC Schools Project

- Girls For A Change

- GrowIndiana AmeriCorps

- Jewish Family Services - Mentor Connection

- Kansas Volunteer Commission

- Keystone SMILES / AmeriCorps

- KOREH L.A., the Los Angeles Jewish Coalition for Literacy (in partnership with Shalhevet)

- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Center for Service and Learning

- Learning Enterprises

- Lewis & Clark Community College

- Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles

- Literacy Volunteers of Greater Syracuse

- Long Beach BLAST

- Maine Commission on Community Service

- Massachusetts Service Alliance

- Minneapolis Public Schools

- Mississippi Commission on Volunteer Service

- Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (America Reads - Mississippi)

- Mississippi State University / Mississippi Early Literacy Corps

- Mississippi State University / Mississippi Early Literacy Corps - Southern Division

- Operation Reach, Inc.'s Gulfsouth Youth Action Corps

- Opportunity to Read (The Watsonville Public Library Literacy Program)

- Providence College

- Release Ministries

- Salisbury University (ShoreCorps/PALS AmeriCorps)

- Serve DC

- University of Michigan America Reads Tutoring Corps

- Vermont Commission on National and Community Service

- Vision Literacy