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February 2010: We have updated our
Books pages, by adding the 2010 American Library Association - Best Books for
Young Adults winners.
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February 2010: The Detroit News published a Letter from our Executive Director, click here or
here.
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February 2010: Our program was endorsed by Charles Pugh, City of Detroit Council
President.
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February 2010: To subscribe /
unsubscribe to any of our newsletters, enter your email address on our new
Subscribe page (click here). You
will then be emailed a link that allows you to change your newsletter
preferences or your email address. Our newsletters are for 3
entities - The
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January 2010: We have updated our Links page, which now has links to our Scholarship Application and Scholarship Acceptance forms. We want all 28,000 DPS high school students to
register for our scholarship, which will put them on the mailing list for our
student newsletter, and help us raise funds for more scholarships. Our goal is to be able to offer scholarships
to all DPS graduates within 2 years.
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January 2010: We are trying to rebuild
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January 2010: Enroll in DPS - get a scholarship! We urge all students interested in receiving
our scholarship to enroll in DPS by next fall. Starting with the class of 2011,
we will offer at least 2 scholarships at all DPS high schools. Within a few years, we plan to offer
scholarships to all DPS graduates.
However, to be eligible, you must have been enrolled in DPS (and be a
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January 2010: Thanks to Mrs. Eva Kuhn Packard for making a contribution designated for
her
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December 2009: We are now receiving contributions designated for scholarships at
particular high schools, and have added a spreadsheet to the top of the News
page (or click here) which details the number
of scholarships offered this year and next at each high school. Ultimately, we plan to offer an unlimited
number of scholarships at all DPS high schools, and this chart highlights our
progress towards this goal.
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December 2009: We appeared on WDET’s Detroit Today radio show, to discuss our program
in the context of incentives to get people to live in
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December 2009: We had an interview on WWJ’s Making the Grade, with Greg Bowman - link, Yahoo
News link.
We also had an interview in the Detroit Jewish News
on 2 December 2009, link
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December 2009: We have a new option for donors
to support additional scholarships at a particular school. We currently offer unlimited scholarships to
seniors at Cody-Upper and Douglass, and 2 scholarships each year to seniors at
Cass Tech, Central, Pershing and Douglass.
Next year, we hope to offer at least 2 scholarships at each of the
remaining DPS high schools.
Contributions designated for a particular school will be used to
increase the number of scholarships at that school. The formula we plan to use is $1500 to fund
one additional scholarship. The
scholarship is for $500, but since we plan to offer the additional scholarships
on an ongoing basis, we need to have funding for 3 years before we add it
permanently. You can designate the name
of the DPS high school on the check or in an email. For questions, please contact Dr. Pernick at
248/646-3269.
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December 2009: We have updated the Scholarship Acceptance form (on the Procedures
page) to reflect some minor changes in our procedures.
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November 2009: Thanks to Judge Wade McCree, Wayne County Circuit Court - Criminal
Division, for meeting with us and endorsing our program.
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November 2009: We have posted our November 2009 student newsletter, with information
about registration, FAFSA, City Heroes, the ACT and the Reggie McKenzie
Foundation.
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November 2009: We added a link to more resources for African-American based scholarships
to the top of our Detroit Scholarships page.
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November 2009: We have posted our November 2009 newsletter (click here),
with information about our annual drive, expansion to new DPS high schools, Fun
Run, scholarship presentations and student registration for our scholarship.
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November 2009: We have launched our
first Annual Drive with a goal of $2 million. These funds will allow us
to expand from pilot programs at Cody and
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November 2009: Crain’s Detroit Business published a short article about our Annual Drive
(click here). The press release is here.
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November 2009: All
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November 2009: We have updated our Detroit Scholarships page with information
from the Detroit Community Scholarship
Initiative and Michigan Department of Treasury.
We also have a new section on Foster Care related grants.
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November 2009: We gave a workshop at the Cody / Rouge Education Leadership Conference.
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November 2009: We gave a presentation with the Community Scholarship Initiative, which
is affiliated with the Detroit Parent Network’s Project Graduation, UNCF,
Edu-Guide, the Coleman Young Foundation and the Skillman Foundation.
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October 2009: We now offer $500 scholarships to a limited number of seniors, chosen at
random, at Cass Tech, Central, Pershing and
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October 2009: Thanks to all who participated in our Fun Run on the Riverwalk. Pictures from the run are posted on our
Facebook Page (click here). The event helped us promote our programs and
fund more scholarships.
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September 2009: We added favorite books of US Senator Debbie Stabenow to our Books
page. We hope that highlighting favorite
books of elected officials will help promote reading, which will promote our
mission of changing the education culture in
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September 2009: We added a link to our Links page, under Parents, for a brochure from the
National PTA listing 100 ways to help your child and school succeed (click here)
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August 2009: Crain’s Detroit Business published an article about our program changes
for Fall 2009 (click here).
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August 2009: We added to the Books page a list of books recommended by the American
Library Association for young adults.
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August 2009: We made a presentation to the Kiwanis Detroit #1 Club at the Detroit
Athletic Club, Beverly Wiggins, President.
They agreed to act as mentors for one of our students, and had several
great ideas about working together.
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July 2009: We
have updated our Links page to include information for the various
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July 2009: We
recently met with Frank Nemecek of the Warrendale Community Development
Corporation, who posted some information about us on his blog, click here (scroll
down to 16 July).
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July 2009: We were interviewed by
Alisa Zee of WYCD, 99.5 FM,
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June 2009: We are pleased to show
increased test scores associated with the start of our program at
24 June 2009: Congratulations to Cody graduate and Detroit College Promise scholarship recipient Destin’e Clark, who was interviewed on Greg Bowman’s Making the Grade radio spot. Click here for the MP3.
5 June 2009: We sent out our first email newsletter for DPS high school students (click here).
20 May 2009: Our scholarship program was endorsed by Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson.
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May 2009: Our press release
about the expansion of our scholarship to
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May 2009: Crain’s Detroit
Business published a brief article (click here)
about our expansion to
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May 2009: Click here to
view at video about The Detroit College Promise compiled by
1 May 2009: Volunteers needed! We are expanding parts of our scholarship program to all DPS high school students in September 2009. However, we need volunteers (parents, staff, others) to help spread the word to students. Contact us at 248/646-3269 or email volunteerDCP@gmail.com to sign up or for more information.
25 April 2009: The April 20-26 weekly issue of the Arise Detroit Newsletter announced the expansion of our program:
The Detroit College Promise announces the expansion of its
scholarship program in the fall to
Email info@arisedetroit.org to sign up for their informative newsletter.
21 April 2009: We have posted our April 2009 newsletter (click here).
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April 2009: We are expanding
our program to the
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March 2009: Our scholarship
program is expanding. For the Fall, 2009 academic year, we will have 138
possible scholarship recipients. They are all eligible for funding if
they attend a
1 March 2009: We attended “A Celebration of Black History” by the Detroit Urban League Guild and College Club. We will be urging students at our high schools to participate in the College Club, which meets once a month and helps students prepare for college.
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February 2009: The
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February 2009: The
We are developing an online scholarship application, which will make the process easier for us as we expand our scholarships to additional schools. It will also enable students to update their information as needed.
We met
with Belinda Raines, principal at
3 February 2009: We have updated the Documents page of our website, which now details the process of applying for an application. Our Detroit Scholarships page also has a detailed list of national scholarships at the top, and more information about The Detroit Compact.
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January 2009: We issued a
press release (click here) about our current 113 scholarship applicants from
15 January 2009: We gave a presentation to a staff meeting at the Cody 9 Academy. We have previously presented our program to the staff at the Cody upper school.
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January 2009: We have simplified our
application form even further. We no longer require a social security
number or submission of transcripts. However, we have added a date of birth,
and have indicated that an email address is mandatory. For the graduating
classes of 2009 to 2012, the only eligibility criteria are continuous
enrollment at
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January 2009: We received a
donation of $5000 from the
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December 2008: An interview
with Greg Bowman was aired for his radio show, “Making the Grade” on WWJ
Newsradio 950 (link).
Crain’s Detroit Business published a short article about us on 7 December 08 (link).
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December 2008: We officially
started accepting applications from
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November 2008: We met with
Steve Wasko, Executive Director, Office of Public Relations,
18 November 2008: We appeared on Arise Detroit’s radio show on 16 November 2008 on WCHB, 1200 am with Luther Keith, their Executive Director. We have a new issue of our Monthly newsletter.
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November 2008: (a) We have
added several new endorsements for our program. Endorsements are accessed
from the Endorsements page or by clicking here.
(b) The
26 October 2008: The Detroit Jewish News, 26 September 2008, had a nice two page article about us. Click here for the link. Channel 4 (WDIV) had two interesting segments about the Kalamazoo Promise. The second mentioned us briefly. Click here and here for the videos.
20 October 2008: We are currently seeking endorsements from elected officials, local organizations / businesses and community leaders, to post on our Endorsements page (click here for the current list). This list is also accessible by clicking on the Donors link.
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October 2008: (a) We met with The
Skillman Foundation last month, and plan to pilot our program at Cody or
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August 2008: We met with and plan to
partner with the Northwestern High School Success Project (see article),
which currently has 40+ business partners, to develop a Promise type
program. More details will be forthcoming. We also met with Sanual
Mixon, Executive Director, Office of Pupil Personnel Services,
I was very encouraged to learn about the efforts of a local
businessman to start
The impact the Kalamazoo Promise has had not only on the students and schools but on the overall vitality of the community is well documented.
Like the recent announcement of a venture fund to help fund turnaround school initiatives, this is a strong example that within our community including among our business leaders there is a sense that positive change is forthcoming at DPS.
21 August 2008: Our website now lists members of our Board of Directors and Advisory Board (on the Board page) and Endorsements (on the Donor page). To view our current business plan, click here. Today we appeared on WDET’s Detroit Today radio show (click here for the audio). To volunteer to help The Detroit College Promise, please email NatPernick@Hotmail.com with “volunteer for DCP” in the subject line. We will send you an email from time to time of tasks that would be helpful.
19 August 2008: In response to a media release (click here) announcing the start of our fundraising efforts, the Detroit News published an article (click here) as did the Detroit Free Press (online only, click here). We were also interviewed by Fox 2 News (click here), Channel 4 News (click here), Michigan Radio, WWJ and WMUK-Kalamazoo (click here).
18 August 2008: Crain’s Detroit Business published a nice article about our program today (click here). The Detroit Free Press recently published a Letter to the Editor about the program (click here).
11 August 2008: We have started seeking pledges of financial support, and are ready to start the program once we receive pledges totaling $500,000. If you have not already done so, please email your pledge to NatPernick@Hotmail.com (“I pledge $___ to The Detroit College Promise”, and indicate your name) or click here for a pledge form. Please also ask friends, colleagues or businesses to make a pledge, so we can start this program ASAP. We do not plan to seek payment of the pledges until December 2008. We have set up a partnership with Communities in Schools, who will help high school students with college preparedness.
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July 2008: We established a
nonprofit with the State of
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