Mentor | The Spitfire Club

Spitfire Club Small Group Mentorship Program

Photo of a woman and a child. The child is holding a stack of books and in the other hand she is holding out a different book

Our small group mentorship program is fully staffed for the 2023-24 school year, but please reach out if you would like to learn more or volunteer next year!

“After each Spitfire meeting I leave with a smile on my face and a warm feeling in my heart. There is nothing better than one-on-one time with a child and Spitfire enables this magic to happen.”

Looking for a way to make an impact on the lives of Alexandria’s girls? Spitfire seeks volunteers to mentor small groups of 3-5 Spitfire girls during their after school Spitfire Club each week, beginning in December and running through the end of the 2023-2024 school year!

Mentoring Option 1 (FULL!)

Thursdays from 2:30pm - 4pm -- December through Memorial Day (only when school is in session) at Cora Kelly Elementary School

Mentoring Option 2 (FULL!)

Fridays from 2:30pm - 4pm -- December through Memorial Day (only when school is in session) at John Adams Elementary School

Graphic that includes 6 sections. At the top it says “Spitfire partners with outside school time programs (schools, affordable housing communities, recreation centers, libraries, and similar groups) to offer Spitfire Clubs on a weekly basis, with a focus on Spitfires who face structural and systemic barriers to literacy, visibility, opportunity, and liberation”. From top left to bottom left: to the left of “Learning from Mentors”, it says “Program leaders serve as role-models and are volunteers from within the community”. To the right of “Enriching Curriculum”, it says “Carefully curated (and fun!) curriculum leverages best practices in literacy enhancement, reading comprehension and critical thinking, all centered around girl-positive, diverse books”. To the right of “Creating the Space”, it says “Programming takes place in a safe environment that is conveniently co-located with existing afterschool and summer programming”. Below “Living the Culture”, it says “Spitfire’s foundation i

Spitfire Club Small Group Mentorship Program

Our small group mentorship program is fully staffed for the 2023-24 school year, but please reach out if you would like to learn more or volunteer next year!

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​“After each Spitfire meeting I leave with a smile on my face and a warm feeling in my heart. There is nothing better than one-on-one time with a child and Spitfire enables this magic to happen.”

Ready to get involved or interested in learning more?

“After each Spitfire meeting I leave with a smile on my face and a warm feeling in my heart. There is nothing better than one-on-one time with a child and Spitfire enables this magic to happen.”