The Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund (HDSF) offers Washington, D.C. public high school students the unique opportunity to develop relationships with working professionals from the Washington region. Students team up with working professionals to build networks and gain much needed advice in navigating the college application and financial aid process.
HDSF’s Empowerment Program is seeking dedicated adult volunteers to serve as year-long mentors to high school seniors. Adult volunteers will be asked to attend a Saturday mentoring session once a month from October through May. The monthly mentoring sessions will feature guest speakers from accomplished backgrounds in business, politics and education. Each monthly session also features a seminar on various topics, such as navigating the financial aid process and constructing the best college application essay. In addition to attending the monthly mentoring sessions volunteers will also be asked to meet with their assigned student at least twice a month.
These in-person meetings can be in the form of trips to the local library to research scholarship information or fun and free outings to local museums. Each student-mentor pair will also work on assignments and fun activities, like the college essay writing process. But most importantly, mentors help guide their student through the sometimes overwhelming college application process.
If you or anyone working professional you know would be interested in investing in the lives of our youth please visit www.hoopdreams.org/mentoring.htm for more information. You may also contact Theodore Brannum at tbrannum@hoopdreams.org for additional information.
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