by edfound | Jul 18, 2023 | Community Initiatives, Grants, Mentoring, News, Student Success
Close friends in college at the University of Florida, Mitchell and Dawn Epstein went their separate ways after graduation. Dawn moved to Atlanta, and Mitchell stayed in Gainesville to pursue his MBA. A few years later, though, the two reconnected and rekindled their...
by edfound | Jan 23, 2023 | Community Initiatives, Mentoring, News, Student Success
To say that Marsha Chappelow supports education and its power to transform the lives of young people would be an understatement. From her early days teaching English and journalism to serving as superintendent at Ladue Schools in St. Louis, Missouri, she has devoted...
by edfound | May 2, 2022 | Mentoring, News, Student Success Center
This past summer, William Moragne missed an unknown phone call. The voicemail provided a clue: it was Cheryl Haller, an Education Foundation of Sarasota County College Career Advisor at the Student Success Center at Sarasota High School, where William attends. But it...
by edfound | Jan 2, 2022 | Mentoring, News
Alyssia Lazin, a renowned photographer, artist, and designer, sees life divided into three parts: learning, earning, and serving. Two years ago, she felt ready to explore the last third. She had heard about mentoring through the Education Foundation of Sarasota...
by edfound | Oct 11, 2021 | Mentoring, News
When he was six, Desmen Lee fell in love with basketball, and though he’s tried others, none have felt as natural as the sport that he first found at the Sarasota YMCA. A reserved young man, Desmen has always felt freer in a gym, alone knocking down free throws or...
by edfound | Aug 17, 2021 | Mentoring, News
As the executive director of Student Life at Youngstown State University, Jonelle Beatrice understood well the power of mentoring. At the beginning of each new school year, she paired all incoming freshmen, most of them first-generation students, with a mentor to...
