On Tuesday November 8th, MPowering Kids’ high-school students made a trip to Philadelphia to tour the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. A grant from the MCF Greentree Foundation Good Neighbor Fund, which supports charities in the Town of North Hempstead, underwrote the trip. MPowering Kids has been taking its students on college visits for several years with the goal of offering the students their first exposure to a variety of schools and campuses.
Seventeen MPowering Kids’ students, grades 10-12, who hope to be among the first in their family to enroll in college, attended information sessions and toured t
he college campuses. At the University of Pennsylvania, the tour was conducted by a former MPowering Kids student and tutor, Marco Guevara. Three volunteers accompanied the students on the 12-hour trip. MPowering Kids relies greatly on a corps of volunteers to tutor and mentor the students, and provide individualized support and guidance about the challenges each student faces in preparation for college admission.
MPowering Kids was founded as a nonprofit 501(c)3 in 2001 and has worked with Westbury School District students for the past ten years with great success. In 2011 the goal of college became a reality for the first group of students when they graduated and entered college, including Dartmouth College, SUNY Stony-Brook and Mercy College.
