Category: News
Living The Example Spotlight: Saege Lasher
Saege is an 11th grader at Ichabod Crane High School and lives in Niverville, NY. She is one of three children. She has a 27-year-old brother who is in the Marines and a sister in 7th grade.
SFIG Award Gala Highlights
Nearly 400 structured finance professionals enjoyed SFIG's Industry Dinner on January 19, 2017 at The Plaza in New York City.
2017 National Shatter the Myths Rally Draws Over 180 Students
Over 180 Washington D.C. high school students interacted with top U.S. scientists and inspiring guest speakers about drugs and substance abuse at the 2017 “Shatter the Myths” rally.
Career Mentoring Starts to ‘Qlik’ for Penn Wood High School Seniors
LANSDOWNE, Pa. (Mentor Foundation USA) – Qlik Technologies and Mentor Foundation USA hosted a special year-end program presentation on Dec. 6, 2016 with the 11 career mentoring students from William Penn School District’s Penn Wood High School.
Yorktel Brings Career Mentoring to New Jersey
EATONTOWN, N.J. (Mentor Foundation USA) – Mentor Foundation USA welcomes Yorktel, our new Career Mentoring Program corporate partner. This partnership allows us to bring our career mentoring program to 20 students in the Eatontown, New Jersey area.
Roosevelt High School and BakerHostetler Kick Off 2016-2017 Career Mentoring
For five years, BakerHostetler Law Firm in Washington, D.C. has supported Mentor Foundation USA’s Career Mentoring Program. This school year, 20 juniors from Roosevelt High School and eight mentors from BakerHostetler kicked off the Career Mentoring Program on October 26.
Mentor At Historic Global Summit on Drug Prevention Hosted by the Vatican
VATICAN CITY (Mentor International) – Headed by our founder H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden Mentor International participated in a historic two-day global summit Nov. 23 to 24 with Pope Francis at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences along with key global prevention leaders to identify and formulate solutions to the global narcotics epidemic.
Interview with Mentor International Chair, Yvonne Thunell
Mentor International’s Chair, Yvonne Thunell, recently attended a summit on the global proliferation of narcotics at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. This summit, “Narcotics: Problems and Solutions of This Global Issue,” was requested by Pope Francis to bring together the leading international scientists and practitioners to highlight the global drug epidemic.
Students Share Alarming Insights on Drug Use in Pre-Program Survey
Before we kicked off the 2016/17 drug prevention program at Ichabod Crane, Taconic Hills and Germantown high schools, we collected anonymous data from among students at the three schools.
