The Peer Power Foundation

Please see schedule o for program service accomplishments.peer Power Foundation directly invests in mid-south high school and college students. It recruits, trains, and places college "success coaches" in The classroom for real time help when a student needs it. The coaches are placed in The math, science, and english classes where kids often struggle, become problematic and withdraw from learning and even drop out of school. Schools with Peer Power success coaches have an 8-10% higher graduation rate. To be a success coach is to have a meaningful job which requires substantive expertise in math, science, and english. Additionally, it requires a mindset of service, humility, and urgency. We are partners with The teachers, The schools and parents to mentor, model and motivate young and vulnerable children in socioeconomically challenged neighborhoods. The 75% of students we serve are in families at or below The federal poverty level. Since 2004 we have tutored more then 1,600,000 hours impacting 35,000 children. The "success coach" is often a "first generation college student." Peer Power's training and continuous learning and elearning model produces outstanding results. Our success coach graduation rate is 84%, The national average "first generation college student" rate is less than 40%. Covid-19 The students and schools we serve were abruptly and seriously impacted by closure on march 8, 2020. Peer Power made The economic decision to retain all coaches and immediately continue support of teachers and students. Everything including The saturday act prep program, after school tutoring and college orientation courses were transitioned to virtually but continued with individual support. The spring virtual saturday act enrolled 611 students. The six saturday course requires students to invest 3 hours each saturday. The payoff is each The 1200-1800 enrollees learn thinking skills, study habits and direct subject review and earn millions of dollars in college scholarships. The Peer Power institute on The university of memphis campus expanded The high school student outreach to all graduating shelby county school seniors. It is a complete partner in university recruitment, student employment and research. The covid challenge was met by Peer Power's resourcefulness, and we are prepared in The future to serve more students, teachers, principals, and schools. Peer Power programs are targeted for students from elementary school through college. The programs include: in class, after school, small group, saturday act and summer camps. Covid-19 closed The schools, but not Peer Power. We migrated to direct teacher and student help through The internet.