This project offers tutoring and mentoring to downtown youth. Trained volunteers provide reading or homework tutoring to youth weekday afternoons or during the school day. The project exists thanks to the vision and financial gift of Arthur and Martha Durfee, former members of First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca. Volunteers Make a Difference Volunteers come from all age groups and have varied work and life experiences.
Volunteers are people who like making a difference in young people's lives.
The Durfee Tutoring Project gives tutors and kids a chance to meet one on one, which seems to make all the difference. Not only am I a tutor, I really feel that I am a mentor. The tutors not only share their academic assistance but they also role model the importance of giving back to the community. Summer school tutoring program that was highly successful. Some of our church youth volunteered as tutors.