Notre Dame AmeriCorps volunteers work at several sites within Cincinnati, most within the urban core. This proposal to the Charles H. Dater Foundation seeks a $22,000 award to help support two of these volunteers, each of whom would work with approximately 25 students at Corryville Catholic Elementary School. Dater Foundation funding would represent roughly 35 percent of the total cost, with the AmeriCorps program covering the balance. Corryville Catholic, due in large part to the AmeriCorps project and a Choices for Children mentoring project, is able to graduate 100% of its students, almost all of whom go on to private high schools. This success occurs in a community where crime and substance abuse are common, where 60 percent of students are from single-parent households, over 90 percent qualify for the Federal school lunch program, and over 80 percent participate in the Ed-choice program (family income less than 200% of the poverty level).