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Category: The Stamford Mentoring Program

The Stamford Mentoring Program brings college and corporate volunteers into the Stamford Public Schools for weekly one-on-one mentoring sessions with students in grades six through nine. Mentors work through a grade-specific curriculum that focuses on four main objectives including: Goal Setting, Academic Engagement, Extracurricular Involvement, and College and Career Readiness.

For the 2011-2012 school year, the program has expanded to serve students at four schools in Stamford: Dolan Middle School, Cloonan Middle School, Domus Trailblazers Academy, and Stamford High School. Since its launch in February 2010, the Stamford Mentoring Program has demonstrated sustainability leading to the following results:

• 100% of the students set goals with their mentors
• 78% of the students achieved the goals they set with their mentor
• 64% of the students engaged in new positive after-school activities
• 89% of the students engaged in college discussions with their mentors
• 86% of the students researched a career with their mentor
• 65% of the students increased their GPA by the end of the school year

The Foundation recruits mentors from local colleges, universities, corporations and organizations, including UConn Stamford, Purdue Pharma, Norwalk Community College, NAACP, First Niagara, TD Bank, McLagan, and Nestle Waters. Funding partners include Pitney Bowes, Purdue Pharma, Peoples United Community Foundation, First Niagra Bank, United Way of Western Connecticut and New Alliance Bank.

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Did you know...

Every year, 1.2 million students drop out of school. That’s 7,000 drop outs everyday or one every 26 seconds.

For each year's dropouts, America loses about $192 billion in lost income and taxes

"Members of the college class of 2010 who took out student loans owed on average $25,250 upon graduation." Justin Pope; HuffingtonPost

High School dropouts are 8 times more likely to go to prison, need welfare, 50% less likely to vote, not eligible for 90% of new jobs and earn less than half of college grads.

The US ranks 12th among 36 industrialized countries for percentage of adults 25-34 years old with college degrees. That’s worse than Canada, Israel, New Zealand and others.

The average annual earning of workers age 18 and over with an advanced degree is $74,602, bachelors $51,206, high school $27,915 and those without a high school diploma $18,734.

At the High School level, in comparison to international countries, the US ranks 24th in math, 21st in science, and 15th in literacy.

"The median starting salary for students graduating from four-year colleges in 2009 and 2010 was $27,000, down from $30,000 for those who entered the work force in 2006 to 2008, according to a study realeased  by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University." Catherine Rampell; NY Times

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