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NYNY Partners with MetLife!

For Immediate Release:

                                                                                                                                  Contact:                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                           Mason Beard
                                                                                                        
                                                                                         mason.beard@newyorkneedsyou.org

                                                                                                                       646-651-1582

METLIFE FOUNDATION SUPPORTS NEW YORK CITY’S ONLY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOCUSING ON THE UPWARD MOBILITY OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS, NEW YORK NEEDS YOU!
 

New York, NY – MetLife Foundation recently awarded a Volunteer Ventures grant of $1,000 to New York Needs You in support of a project proposed by Kristin Grimm, a MetLife employee who volunteers with the organization. The Project will provide support for one of NYNY’s Saturday workshops, in which 100 – 150 fellows engage in professional and academic development seminars.

I am thankful to have a mentor who challenges me to grow and provides guidance in all situations. This relationship reminds me how ambition is most successful when it has a focused direction and highlights how challenging that development process can be without guidance. It is exciting to participate in a community that thrives on connecting ambition with direction. This sentiment is apparent at every workshop and is echoed by the sincere dedication of all its participants. I am honored to be actively involved as a Mentor-Coach and provide the same support network to others that I am so grateful to have found for myself.

                                                                  - Kristen Grimm, NYNY Mentor-Coach

The Volunteer Ventures Program encourages and supports employee involvement at the local level in nonprofit organizations that work to improve the quality of life for all.  Grants are made for specific projects in which MetLife employees have continuing involvement as volunteers.               

                                          

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NYNY closes the opportunity gap through the most intensive career mentorship program in NYC, enabling high-potential, first-generation college students to realize their career aspirations.  The organization was launched after NYNY’s President and Founder, Robert Reffkin, uncovered significant empirical data indicating that the education level of parents, family structure and socio-economic conditions have a significant influence on the economic mobility of youth. The primary components of the NYNY curriculum are college success and career development. Through the NYNY Fellowship, first-generation college students will have the support necessary to reach their full potential. For additional information on NYNY, visit: www.newyorkneedsyou.org