Information for New Volunteers
Volunteer for IHAD-EPA as an academic tutor! Volunteers are an essential part of our after-school program, providing homework help and academic support to our students.

Monday 3:30-4:30
Tuesday 3:30-4:30
Thursday 3:30-4:30

Interested? Contact Taylor Martin, Program Director, tmartin@buildingfuturesnow.org, for further details.
To get a head start on the process, click on the Volunteer Application and Volunteer Agreement below. Print it, fill it out, and send it to us at:

Taylor Martin
IHAD-EPA
PO Box 1524
Palo Alto, CA 94302

Additionally, find the directions for submitting your TB Test and Fingerprint results below.

IHADEPA Volunteer TB Test Instructions 2008-2009.pdf

IHADEPA Volunteer Fingerprint Instructions 2008-2009.pdf

"Looking back on my time with these incredible boys and girls, I am so proud of what they achieved, and so grateful for the relationships i have formed with them.  Of course, there were those times when the goings got rough, and it appeared our efforts were for naught, as some of the boys and girls would become distracted.  Yet in the wake of these discouraging events, the Dreamers would rise, often as a class, to meet the math challenges that faced them. 
One of my new friends had struggled with basic addition at the beginning of the summer, but now he has moved on to full scale algebra.  Another could never comprehend the ideas of multiplication; now he can ace all his multiplication tables and has moved on to bigger and harder concepts. " -Connor Douglass, volunteer

"I attend Menlo High School, an academic environment where many students, including myself, often take a quality education for granted.  However, I have seen the students at this program eager to learn and  apply the appositive phrase, excited to write a horror story in class, smile at the anticipation of a game of softball out on the playground, and laugh when I tell them of stories from when I was once in seventh grade and learning algebra for the first time.  I learned that these students truly appreciate the importance of an education, and furthermore, each and every one of them want to take advantage of their opportunities and continue to learn and mature in their futures." -Dana Tom, volunteer