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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
Every dollar you give goes directly to work that is already proven.
Peer Power Foundation places trained Success Coaches inside Memphis classrooms, working one-on-one and in small groups with students who need more than a school day can give them. More than 2,800 students are supported this year alone.
This is the 10th year of the Big River Crossing Race. Ten years of running for real kids, real classrooms, and real results.
Make your gift count fully.
When you cover the processing fee below, 100% of your donation reaches Peer Power programs, not a payment processor.
Inspire. Empower. Peer Power.
Teams
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Cortney's Cadre
Raised: $107.35
Recent donors
| Date | Name | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 04 | Anonymous | $27.48 |
| Apr 22 | Jermaine O'Bryan | Undisclosed amount |
| Apr 22 | Richard Henson | $27.48 |
| Apr 22 | Cedrick Gray | $27.48 |
| Apr 22 | Anonymous | Undisclosed amount |
| Apr 22 | Pam Mackey | Undisclosed amount |
| Apr 10 | Anonymous | $107.35 |
