Organization That Promotes Public Service by Older People to Break Into Two Groups

By Suzanne Perry

Experience Corps, a program that recruits older people to mentor and tutor inner-city schoolchildren, is preparing to break away from its parent group, Civic Ventures, and establish itself as an independent charity.

Experience Corps, which has grown from a pilot project in 1995 to a program that now works in 20 cities and serves 20,000 students, is in the process of seeking a chief executive to help it expand further — partly by capitalizing on the growing number of