Community Corner
Summit's Student/Partner Alliance Holds Annual Golf Tournament
More than 100 golfers participated.
Press release from the Student/Partner Alliance:
June 21, 2022
Over 100 golfers participated in Bunk’s XVIth Annual Golf Tournament to raise funds for Student/Partner Alliance, an organization that provides tuition assistance and mentoring services to motivated high school students at private high schools in New Jersey’s urban areas. The tournament took place on June 13, 2022
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at Galloping Hill Golf Course and was organized and hosted by Student/Partner Alliance Board Member Bruce Reitz. This year’s tournament raised over $50,000 to assist students at Immaculate Conception, a Montclair-based, parochial high school. Tournament winners included Board Member, Tim Heine, his son, Tim Heine, Jr., Steve Korn, and Doug Williams.
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Student/Partner Alliance
The mission of Student/Partner Alliance (S/PA) is to support motivated high school students at private high schools in New Jersey’s urban areas of Essex, Hudson and Union counties with tuition assistance and mentoring to increase their chances for college admission and scholarships, and ultimately to lead successful and productive lives.
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Research from mentor.org shows that mentors play a powerful role in providing young people with the tools to strive and thrive, to attend and engage in school, and to reduce or avoid risky behavior like drug use. In turn, these young people are:
– 55% more likely to be enrolled in college
– 81% more likely to report participating regularly in sports or extracurricular activities
– 78% more likely to volunteer regularly in their communities.
– More than twice as likely to say they held a leadership position in a club or sports team.
Yet, the same research shows that one in three young people in our country will grow up without a mentor. Today, in our community there are so many young people who could benefit from having a mentor outside their family.
To learn more about the role mentoring plays in our community and to find volunteer opportunities with us visit www.studentpartneralliance.org. If you would like to learn more about our program, please contact me at ldegennaro@studentpartneralliance.org.
This press release was produced by the Student/Partner Alliance. The views expressed here are the author's own.
