Mentoring Program kicks off 2019 school year with historic freshmen cohort
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College Now was proud to host 900 incoming freshman college students, mentors, and community partners at our annual Mentoring Program Kick-Off on Tuesday, August 6th, at the Huntington Convention Center in downtown Cleveland. This exciting event is the first meeting between our freshman college students and the mentors who will be working with them through the course of their college careers. This year, our College Now scholarship recipients were joined by Say Yes scholarship recipients and their mentors, which made the event nearly twice as large as in past years!
Over 400 mentor-student pairs met in person for the first time at the event, as we inaugurated the beginning of the school year for our new college freshman class. Attendees heard from College Now CEO Lee Friedman, College Now Board Chair Mark Ross, and CEO of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Eric Gordon, and one of his mentees, Brinden. Eric and Brinden shared their insights on the importance of the Mentoring Program and even participated in some ice breakers while on stage!
College Now is proud to continue our 51 years of work in supporting students with this historic Kick-Off and this historic academic year! To read more about the Kick-Off,
click here for a recap of the event from Patrick O'Donnell of The Plain Dealer, and check out WKYC Channel 3's
coverage of the event here.
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College Now receives new 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant for impact! programming
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College Now's impact! program recently received a new grant from the Ohio Department of Education's 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which will allow impact! programming to take place at Lorain High School during the 2019/2020 academic year!
impact! is an eight-week program, offered three times per year, that is designed to improve students' ACT, SAT, and PSAT scores, and increase students' college and career readiness.
In addition to Lorain High School, impact! will be available at the following sites this year:
- Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland
- City Life Center, Greater Cleveland Youth for Christ
- Clearview High School
- Cleveland Public Library, Main Campus
- Longfellow Middle School
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
- Warrensville Heights High School
- Wellington High School
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Bag Lady fundraiser quickly approaching!
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College Now's biannual fundraiser, Bag Lady, is less than two weeks away! There are only 50 tickets left for the silent auction event on Thursday, September 12, where attendees will be able to bid on brand new and like-new designer handbags, men's items, and incredible experience packages. This year's event will be held at the Great Lakes Science Center and is sure to be out of this world. The event will start at 10:30 a.m., with a brief program occurring at 12:45 p.m. While there is no seated lunch at this year's event, food stations and passed appetizers will be available for guests during the auction. All proceeds from the event benefit College Now's Mentoring Program.
For more information about Bag Lady and to purchase your tickets before they are gone, visit
the Bag Lady page
on College Now's website. We hope to see you there!
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Moment of the Month:
We Said Yes! What's Next? City Club forum
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Photo by Michaelangelo's Photography
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On August 23, College Now CEO Lee Friedman joined Say Yes Cleveland Executive Director Diane Downing, CMSD CEO Eric Gordon, and City of Cleveland Chief of Education Dr. Monyka Price for a Friday Forum at the City Club entitled "We Said Yes! What's Next?"
The four panelists, joined by moderator Joe Frolik of ideastream, talked about Cleveland becoming the fourth Say Yes to Education city in the country and discussed what the community still needs to know about the initiative, wrap-around services provided, and tuition gap-closing scholarship. You can read more about the forum on
cleveland.com and view pictures from the event on
the City Club's Facebook page. Thank you to everyone who took part in this incredible event!
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Do your back-to-school shopping with Amazon and support College Now
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- Simply visit Amazon Smile and log into your account.
- If this is your first time on the site, select College Now as your charitable organization.
- .5% of your eligible purchases will be donated to College Now!
Thank you for your support!
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