Incentive Mentoring Program

Check it out! My pal Sarah from high school has started this amazing nonprofit that helps "troubled" youth graduate from high school and go to college. It's actually a really impressive outfit. Here's the blurb from the website:

The Incentive Mentoring Program is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides intensive academic and social support to Baltimore City teenagers who are in immediate danger of being expelled from high-school. IMP has achieved a 100% graduation and 100% college acceptance rate by engaging students in activities that build self-worth,academic pride,and social responsibility. IMP strives to unite the people and resources of Baltimore in an effort to break the cycle of poverty, drugs, and lack of education. Generations of IMP alumni will create a powerful force of social change and establish a new cycle of learning, service, and social well-being.

Although only 38.5% of Baltimore City children will receive a high school diploma on time, all fifteen members of the original IMP class of 2007 graduated high school with a combined total of 123 college acceptances and $1,000,000 in scholarships. IMP alumni are currently attending:

* Bowdoin College

* Purdue University

* Frostburg State University

* University of Maryland Eastern Shore

* And more...

Wow! 100% success rate?! I'm sooo going to write a story about this...