News & Stories
Winning Futures First and Only in Michigan to Earn National Quality Member Designation
March 19, 2018 Announcements, News
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
February 12, 2018 Announcements, News
“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
Reaching His Five-Year Vision Plan
February 7, 2018 Alumni Success Stories
Before Jerry Porter became a Winning Futures mentee, the Cass Tech High School student “didn’t know what to do in life,” he said. “But the program helped me figure things out.” He figured out that he wanted to become a CPA, and became a double major at Wayne State University… Read More
CEO of Center Line Electric Joins Winning Futures Board of Directors
January 10, 2018 Announcements
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
Looking Back on a Year of Great Success
December 28, 2017 News
It’s that time of year when people look back at their blessings over the past year and make plans for the next. We at Winning Futures are no different, except that we are sharing our thoughts and wishes with you. Looking back, we’ve had some great successes among our mentees.… Read More
Winning Futures grad takes new-found social confidence to Harvard
December 8, 2017 Alumni Success Stories
If you were to visit a Harvard University freshman computer science classroom this year, you just might see Winning Futures graduate T’Ajmal Hogue chatting confidently with her fellow classmates. If you had seen her as a sophomore at Cass Tech High School, she likely would have been standing alone. “I… Read More
Happy #GivingTuesday!
November 28, 2017 Announcements
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
November 14, 2017 Announcements
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
#GivingTuesday Kickoff
October 25, 2017 News
#GivingTuesday The benefits of a mentor/mentee relationship are both immediate and long term, studies show, and those results are borne out at Winning Futures, where between 85-91 percent of our mentees last school year said our programs taught them how to achieve their career goals, attain job-readiness skills, improve study… Read More
From Shy to Aiming High
October 16, 2017 Alumni Success Stories
“I used to be really shy and quiet. I felt like I didn’t fit in with other people,” Claudia Ware, a graduate of Cornerstone Health + Technology High School, said of her years in middle school and early high school. “I remember getting made fun of and bullied a lot,… Read More