Bay Area Tutoring Association

The mission of Bay Area Tutoring Association is to develop an academic tutoring workforce, teacher pathway, intervention and enrichment services for K-12 educational programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.  We provide foster youth, homeless, justice involved, underserved, at-risk, and student athletes academic support services and executive functioning training to increase their college and career readiness in the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.  We train tutors to tutor English, math, executive functioning, test prep, and college readiness. Our Bay Area tutors work in class rooms during the school day, after school programs, online, and for strategic partners.

Since our inception in 2013, we have partnered with more than 50 different organizations, tutoring more than 4,000 students, trained 500+ tutors and performed 300,000 hours of tutoring in the San Francisco greater Bay Area. Bay Area Tutoring Association was founded in 2013 in response to the S.F. Bay Area academic achievement gap, underrepresentation of a diverse educator workforce, California’s adoption of Common Core State Standards, and sunset of No Child Left Behind scheduled in 2015.

Issue

How can Bay Area Tutoring Association partner with local corporations and working professionals to expand its impact?

Situation

Bay Area Tutoring foresees significant opportunity on the horizon for the high impact tutoring industry as teacher shortages continue to rise and the achievement gap grows.  To serve this increased need, Bay Area Tutoring would like to encourage Bay Area corporations and individual professionals to engage with their programs, as volunteer tutors or other donations of time, talent, or resources.  Corporate partners are well positioned to help underserved youth understand the relevance of education in the working world and increase pathway readiness through initiatives such as field trips, job shadowing, and internships. 

Project

This project will help Bay Area Tutoring Association answer the following questions:

1. What are the drivers and barriers to corporate volunteerism and resource contributions by companies in the San Francisco Bay Area?
2. What can be learned from other organizations that have successfully partnered with corporations for volunteerism and resource contributions?
3. How can Bay Area Tutoring Association partner with local corporations and working professionals to expand its impact?