About Us

Every school-day afternoon in inner-city Jackson, Mississippi, some third-graders from nearby Poindexter Elementary School come together as the Poindexter Park After-School Club, to get encouragement and help with homework, art projects, reading discovery, internet research, nature exploration, learning games, and field trips around Jackson.

Our club aims to be a safe haven for our children to practice reading, math, cooperation, and hope.

All is offered for free to the working parents of the children served. We are a non-profit community organization. Our Director is Debra Free, a certified teacher who formerly taught at Poindexter School. Our founder and volunteer CEO is Brad Pigott, a former Mississippi State Board of Education member and United States Attorney.

Please come check us out. We could use your help to tutor a child. Poindexter Park After-School Club, Inc., is a tax-exempt Mississippi corportion under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Gifts to us are therefore tax deductible.

	Ms. Free (Debra Free) is our Director. She used to be a classroom teacher. She helps us with everything we do.
	Mr. Brad (Brad Pigott) is the Founder (and the Field Trip Man) of our Club.
	Mr. Donteus (Donteus Hubbard) teaches us art two afternoons every week. He is an art student at Murrah High School.
	Ms. Christina (Christina Spann) helps us with our reading two afternoons every week. She goes to Mississippi College.