Three Bartlesville youth mentor programs receive OFE grants
Three Bartlesville mentoring programs received $1,500 grants from the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence as part of its 2023 Boren Mentoring Initiative.
Bruins on the Run, Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Oklahoma, and Young Scholars of Bartlesville were three of 11 organizations statewide selected for the opportunity grants.
What do these programs do?
Bruins on the Run is an after-school mentoring and running program for fifth graders who run after school with their teacher-mentors. The program is sponsored by the Bartlesville Public Schools Foundation.
Bartlesville's Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma provides fully vetted, caring mentors for children ages 6 through 18. Big Brothers Big Sisters’ mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Young Scholars of Bartlesville assists academically promising, yet economically disadvantaged 12- to 22-year-old students in Bartlesville Public Schools to earn a college degree. Seventh graders are matched with mentors to help prepare them for college and eventually for college graduation.
The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence is a statewide nonprofit founded in 1985 by then-U.S. Sen. David L. Boren to recognize and encourage academic excellence in Oklahoma’s public schools. The David and Molly Boren Mentoring Initiative – one of the foundation’s five programs — promotes the growth and development of quality mentoring programs in Oklahoma.
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