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Programs for Specific Schools

Everybody Wins! Lunchtime Reading at P.S. 125 and P.S. 36

Columbia administrators, faculty, staff, and students volunteer as reading partners to children at two Harlem elementary schools. Each Columbia volunteer has been matched with a single student and dedicates one hour per week during their lunch hour to read to students or listen to them read. Orientation/ recruitment sessions are held at the beginning of each semester.
Eligibility Requirements: Students at participating schools must be nominated by teachers.
Fee(s): No fees
Phone: 212-965-2290
E-mail: everybodywins@columbia.edu
Web site: www.everybodywinsny.org
Columbia Unit(s): Government and Community Affairs—Morningside Heights

Graham Windham Children's Learning Center

The Graham Windham Children's Learning Center is a private, not-for-profit behavioral school for young children with special needs.
Fee(s): No fees
Registration/Application Deadline: None. Students are admitted throughout the year.
Address: 310 West 103rd Street
Phone: 212-678-9555
Fax: 212-678-9246
E-mail: dixom@grahamwindham.com
Columbia Unit(s): Community Impact

Harlem Tutorial Program (HTP)

HTP is a volunteer/mentoring program that works in partnership with the Life Sciences Secondary School, located in East Harlem, to provide tutoring and serve as role models for high school students.
Eligibility Requirements: Students in Life Sciences Secondary School
Fee(s): No fees
Registration/Application Deadline: Students need to enroll at the beginning of each term.
Phone: 212-853-0320
E-mail: pgr2102@columbia.edu
Partner(s): Life Sciences Secondary School
Columbia Unit(s): Law School; Business School

StreetSquash

StreetSquash is an after-school youth enrichment program that combines academic tutoring with squash instruction, community service, and one-on-one mentoring. Columbia students play squash with the kids and also help them with their
homework.
Eligibility Requirements: Students in grades 7 to 12 enrolled at Thurgood Marshall Academy or Frederick Douglas Academy
Fee(s): No fees
Address: 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 246
Phone: 212-949-4030
E-mail: info@streetsquash.org
Web site: www.streetsquash.org
Columbia Unit(s): Government and Community Affairs—Morningside Heights

Washington Heights Reads and Writes

This program offers reading and tutoring services to local children with low reading scores. Sixty-five children participate each year. In addition, there is one-on-one mentoring assistance for thirty students from P.S. 128.
Eligibility Requirements: Students in grades 3 and 4 who are referred by teachers
Fee(s): No fees
Registration/Application Deadline: Register by October 31 for the following year. May be a waiting list.
Address: 630 West 168th Street, PH 1-132
Phone: 212-305-8060
Fax: 212-342-3914
E-mail: cumcgca@columbia.edu
Columbia Unit(s): Government and Community Affairs—Medical Center