The mission of Hopkins House is to provide high-impact educational programs and opportunities to children, youths, and their families particularly “at-risk and low-income, working families” to help them achieve, in measurably effective ways, their full intellectual, economic, and social potential.

Volunteer opportunities include: reading with preschool children, tutoring teens and adults, organizing and chaperoning on local trips, cleaning toys, painting walls, planting flowers, or serving on committees.

Hopkins House has preschool academies:
Helen Day
1224 Princess Street Alexandria, VA 22314
McNeil Preschool
8543 Forest Place
Alexandria, VA 22309

Innovative Preschool Academy
200 Fairbrook Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
Training: None
Minimum Age: 14

Requirements for applying: Volunteer application at www.hopkinshouse.org. Also, all volunteers working with children must submit to a criminal background check and a central registry release of information, and undergo a tuberculosis test.