Learn To Be Foundation

Research by the Higher Education Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that service participation contributed to significant positive effects on eleven different outcome measurements:

-Academic performance (GPA, writing skills, critical thinking skills)

-Values (commitment to activism and to promoting racial understanding)

-Self-efficacy

-Leadership (leadership activities, self-related leadership ability, interpersonal skills)

-Choice of a service career

-Plans to participate in service after college

The importance of the development of the students cannot be overlooked but the life skills and awareness that college students receive through their work with non-profits and underrepresented communities only substantiate the need for more volunteers and more service work. The success achieved on all counts for college students involved in service is unheard of in any other classroom. The work done through Learn To Be has the ability to shape the career path for any college student looking for their next life goal.  In order to cultivate the next generation of leaders in business, education, or health care, college students must begin at the grassroots level, doing fieldwork and becoming aware of what needs change. Upon integrating their own values and goals with experiences working for inner-city youth, Learn To Be tutors can become agents of change in whatever field they pursue by always bringing solutions back to the communities they worked with.