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Peer Power Foundation: Overview
Mission & Vision
Mission: To provide high-quality, life-enhancing tutoring and mentoring services that ensure personal, partner, and provider success.
Vision: To create a world where all children receive holistic, individualized academic support regardless of their zip code.
About Peer Power
Peer Power is a tutoring and mentoring program with 20 years of experience in:
- Youth development
- Workforce development
- College preparation
Our model produces employable and college-ready young people.
Impact & Achievements
- More than 2 Million tutoring and mentoring hours and counting
- In 2023-2024, 145 success coaches supported 83 teachers and 886 class sections in 12 Memphis Shelby County Schools
- Serves over 10,000 students at 12 high schools every day
- Expanding by two high schools each year
- More than 150 success coaches have become teachers (1 in 7 go on to become educators)
- Teachers with success coaches report higher job retention and satisfaction
- 88% homegrown talent, including our CEO
- Success Coaches have an 84% college graduation rate (33% higher than average)
- Designated by Stanford University's National Student Support Accelerator as a high-impact, high-quality tutoring program
- Received the National Student Support Accelerator Tutoring Program Design Badge
- Recognized by Johns Hopkins University: "Peer Power's commitment to quality, innovation, and continuous improvement was evident throughout the summer training and the evaluation process."
- ACT Prep University improves scores by an average of 3.2 points
- ACT Prep University students qualify for nearly $1,000,000 in Tennessee HOPE scholarships annually
- Second-largest employer of University of Memphis students, only behind the University itself
University of Memphis Partnership
- 33% higher success coach graduation rate (exceeding U of M honors college)
- Hire students who qualify for Federal Work Study
- Students gain internship hours across all majors and colleges
- Higher recruitment and retention rates
Research Focus Areas
- Mentoring students from high-crime neighborhoods
- Sociocultural factors in education
- Role of language in relationship building
- Culturally relevant curriculum development
- Community-based education initiatives
- Teacher-success coach collaboration
- Peer influence on academic success
- Youth participatory action research
Contact Information
Cortney Richardson, CEO
Email: cortneyinspires@peerpowerfoundation.org
Phone: 901-734-4311
