Civic Ventures :: Innovations Documentary Series

Experience Corps: Lessons for Life

The story of Experience Corps is a tale of local heroes, women and men from economically blighted inner-city areas foregoing conventional retirement to devote 15 hours or more each week to children in need. Experience Corps members become additional "aunts" and "uncles" to the children, and a second family to each other.

Experience Corps volunteer.
Photo credit and copyright by Alex Harris.

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Experience Corps

2120 L Street NW, Suite 610
Washington, DC 20037
(202) 478-6190
www.experiencecorps.org

Innovations

Photographs by Alex Harris
Essay by Rob Gurwitt
Audio Production by Elana Hadler
Introduction by Marc Freedman

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