Greetings!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours! It has been a great year for Futures for Kids, and we are continuing to bring together our communities in providing relevance for our students. We have more school districts coming on board and we are always adding new Career Coaches to mentor our students, such as the Graduation Project success story below.
Thank you for your support--we are looking forward to a great 2011.
The F4K Team -Susan, John, Rebecca & Ann |
| F4K Mentors Impact Grad Projects | |
 Joleesa's Going to be a Teacher!
Joleesa Felton, a Northeast High School senior, needed a mentor for her North Carolina Graduation Project. She turned to the F4K Career Coaches, where she found Tom Williams, a former principal who was excited to see a high school student looking at an important, contemporary education issue for her Grad Project.
Tom's impact extended beyond Joleesa's Grad Project; over the friendship that developed they worked through Joleesa's career decisions and subsequent college preparation. Click here to see the full story!
"He helped me realize teaching is not just going to the classroom and leaving for the day. It is a lifelong experience--you have to be able to learn as well as teach." -Joleesa Felton |
| Triangle Business Journal Features F4K | |
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 Non-profit Links Students With Work
"Businesses have not had a way to communicate directly with students interested in specific careers," says Susan Milliken, executive director of Futures for Kids.
Founded in 2001, the Raleigh-based, statewide nonprofit helps students identify their career interests and learn what it takes to pursue those careers, and also connects them with mentors and employers.
The group is working this school year with more than 65,000 students in 59 school systems, representing well over half the students and just over half the 115 school systems in the state, including most of the largest systems.
Read more: Nonprofit links students with work | Triangle Business Journal |
| Donor Round of Applause | |
 Thanks to our recent donors...
We would like to recognize the
Troan Foundation for their $20,000
donation, the Morgan Creek Foundation  for their donation of $7,500, and the
$10,000 contribution F4K received from
the Biogen Idec Foundation as part of a
$20,000 grant to build an F4K-Citizen
Schools partnership.
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Renewed Focus on Career & Technical Education
As part of NBC's Education Nation Summit, NBC News and the Today Show profiled Career and Technical Education (CTE) and its impact on school reform. This video segment highlights how CTE has changed to evolve with the needs of the changing economy and the critical need for CTE to educate and train the future workforce. |
