Join the Students to Scholars Family Today

Are you looking for a way to make a difference in the lives of others? Then join the Students to Scholars family! You can offer one hour of academic support from your own home! Academic tutoring has never been more needed or easier to do. Our academic volunteers help students by providing hours of guided study. Our meal volunteers cook and serve delicious meals. Our life-line donors generously give financially, in support of our students. You can register today to tutor online from 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EST by contacting us at admin@students2scholars.com. Join us in praying for our students who are in need of our support. You can register to volunteer in one or more of these areas. We invite you to be a part of the Students to Scholars family! Contact us today.

Our History

For over 22 years The Students to Scholars family of volunteers have worked with children and youth in the English Avenue and Vine City communities. We’ve changed the name of this ministry from the New Life S.A.Y. Yes! Center to The New Life Students to Scholars Center. Even though our name has changed, our commitment to our children, youth, and families in the English Avenue and Vine City communities. We believe everyone deserves a chance to be seen, to be loved, to be discipled, to have voice, and to be hopeful about their futures. Furthermore, we serve because we believe all of students have the capacity to learn, grow, and live into God's plan for their lives. We are so excited to partner with our children and youth as they go from students to scholars.

Students to Scholars Bring Partners Together

Our integrative approach meets the needs of students within their urban context by forming a discipleship community with students who have been overlooked or considered to be the invisible ones. We bring partners together to form holistic support, serving alongside students and their families; not over them. We believe everyone deserves a chance to be seen, to be loved, to be discipled, to have voice and to be hopeful about their futures. We invite you to join the New Life Students to Scholars family. We are the after-school program with over 22 years of service to students in the English Avenue and Vine City communities.

Become a part of the New Life Students to Scholars Family

Are you looking for a meaningful volunteer experience? Are you interested in being a part of interrupting the school to prison pipeline? You can give one hour each week to help a student through academic tutoring. You choose one or more days each week, from 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., to tutor a student online who needs help. RSVP to attend one of our online orientation session to admin@students2scholars.com. All volunteers are required to attend an orientation session and pass a background check. We believe every child deserves a chance. Volunteers work one-on-one with a student on homework assignments or academic skill enhancement.  We can't do this work alone. Join us in eliminating the school-to-prison pipeline. Consider joining the New Life Students to Scholars family today.

Monthly Lifeline Donors Needed: Our lifeline donors support our program through monthly giving. You determine the amount of your financial support each month. Your support helps us sustain and grow our staff and program offerings. Your gifts are critical to our ongoing ministry to children, youth and adults in the English Avenue and Vine City communities. Please click here to become a lifeline monthly donor or to make online donations to the New Life Students to Scholars Center. Thank you for making this ministry possible. We believe everyone deserves a chance!

Meal Volunteers Needed: Something very special happens over a meal that with people who listen and share about their day. Each evening we serve a home-cooked meal to our students. If you are a good cook and can partner with us by providing one meal per month, please contact Libby Hovey, our administrator at admin@students2scholars.com. Thank you for sharing your hospitality with our students.

NEW LIFE STUDENTS TO SCHOLARS CENTER STAFF

Libby Hovey is our Associate Director. She is a graduate of North Park University in Chicago, Illinois in Early Childhood Education. She currently teaches kindergarten at a local private school in the English Ave Neighborhood.