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Jumpstart fun fact:

96% of participating college students would recommend Jumpstart to their peers! Read our student testimonials down below to find out why.

My experience working with Jumpstart as a Corps Member inspired me to grow as a person. Jumpstart helped facilitate leadership opportunities for me and also community engagement whenever I spent time with the children. Jumpstart also helped better my interpersonal skills whenever I worked alongside my team.

Azzan Foster

During my experience with Jumpstart, I most enjoyed getting to spend time with the kids in the classroom. No matter how stressed I am, getting to see the kids always makes me feel better. I would tell someone who is considering working with kids in the future to go for it! It’s important to have the patience to work with them and if that’s something you possess, I would 100% recommend it. What inspired me most about Jumpstart was the mission to ensure every child has equal access to education.

Brynn Theurer

From the beginning, I enjoyed the connection made during team leader meetings. I also enjoyed how before we started session our supervisor answered all our questions as well as demonstrated how lessons should be done. I have benefited from the team leader meetings because it is a way for us to express our concerns as well as anything that we should improve on. I like how it is flexible and the supervisor works with your schedule. Lastly, I have benefited from leading a team and bouncing ideas off them.

Helen Capellan

Joining Jumpstart was such a great decision and I am definitely excited to continue the program for as long as I can. During Jumpstart, what I enjoy the most is being able to interact with the kids and noticing little differences between how the children think or play…We are there to help them practice and grow their skill sets and knowledge for them to start the first years of schooling.

Additional Programming

Read for the Record

Jumpstart’s Read for the Record is the world’s largest shared experience that celebrates children’s early language and social-emotional development. In this one-day event, we build an intergenerational community through reading and raise awareness of the importance of early childhood literacy and equitable access to high-quality books. For over 18 years, more than 26 million people have participated in Read for the Record and Jumpstart has been able to distribute hundreds and thousands of high-quality books to youth in underserved communities.

Jumpstart Summer Program

The Jumpstart Summer Program is stipend-based internship experience that does not require federal work-study. College students work in small group experiences to support children’s oral language and social-emotional development. This program is open to students of all schools and majors with paid professional development opportunities.