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Ford Executive, Matt Duffy, Joins Board of Directors

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Matt Duffy, Global Director of Electrical and Electronics Purchasing, Ford Motor Company Matt Duffy, global director, Electrical and Electronics Purchasing, Ford Motor Company, has been elected to Winning Futures’ board of directors. Duffy’s 25-year career includes stops at IBM, Apple, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and Sonos. His more notable … Read More »

Dresner Foundation Awards $150,000 Grant to Winning Futures

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Career Program Associate, Katherine Morgan (center), with Winning Futures mentor, Mark O’Malley (bottom left), and students at Warren Mott High School. We are excited to announce that we received a two-year $150,000 grant award from the Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation. Funding from the Dresner Foundation will support core expenses … Read More »

2018 Awards Ceremony – Changing the World!

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2018 scholarship winners left to right: Brittany Padilla, Breia Swanigan, and Samantha Susalla. I’ve been to many awards ceremonies in my lifetime and I’ve watched a few on television. They’re mostly mundane. Too many times participants rave about themselves or how something they’ve done changed the world when really they … Read More »

She Was Worried She Wouldn’t Be a Good Mentor. Now She’s Receiving the Governor’s Service Award.

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Pictured left to right are Stephanie K, Angel, and Lee Ellen Kerr at WWCK – Supertalk 1570 AM. Lee Ellen Kerr is the kind of person that wants to give back. So when we pitched our mentoring program to Lee and a small group of her colleagues at Dow Automotive, … Read More »

Winning Futures First and Only in Michigan to Earn National Quality Member Designation

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Dipita Das (right) with her mentor, Sharon vanSpronsen (left), at the 2017 Awards Ceremony where Dipita received a Winning Futures scholarship. We are very proud to announce that our mentoring program was recently awarded the National Quality Member designation from MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR). We are the first … Read More »

Keys to College: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness

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“Do you want to be normal or different? Do you want to be average or exceptional?” David Rendall’s The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness inspired us to ask our students these questions in our new “Finding Your Strengths” session in our Keys to College program. The facilitators help … Read More »

CEO of Center Line Electric Joins Winning Futures Board of Directors

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Winning Futures recently elected to its board of directors Kelvin B. Squires, CEO of Center Line Electric Inc. in Center Line. Before acquiring Center Line Electric in 2016, Squires spent 32 years working in the automotive industry, retiring in 2016 from Ford Motor Company as chief engineer, Global Powertrain Manufacturing … Read More »

Happy #GivingTuesday!

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  Happy #GivingTuesday! Today is the day that kicks off the charitable season with a call to service and giving back. We ask for your help in changing the lives of youths by supporting our mentoring programs that teach how to make good life decisions, set goals and become self-reliant: https://winningfutures.org/donate/. Donations … Read More »

GM Executive is a Game changer for the Winning Futures Board of Directors

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Winning Futures, an award-winning nonprofit organization that empowers young people to succeed through mentoring, strategic planning, and workforce preparation elected Matt Joshua as a new board member this year. Matt Joshua is the Global Purchasing Executive Director of Electrical Systems and Advanced Products for General Motors. Mr. Joshua first became … Read More »

2017-18 Program Kick off!

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The 2017-18 school year has begun and Winning Futures has 175 mentors (see attached photos) trained and eager to help the 558 students in grades 10-12 improve their futures through our 22-week program that teaches life skills, goal setting, strategic planning, and career readiness. Sessions this year begin this month … Read More »