Four years ago, Percivierre Whitmore was in his final year at Mott Middle College. He was graduating with both a high school diploma and an associate degree but wasn’t sure what his next step should be. And then he heard about Flint Promise. The scholarship program had just launched, offering students like Whitmore – who lived in and attended high… Read More 

Registration is now open for YouthQuest’s summer enrichment program, which provides students in grades K-12 with a unique way to spend summer vacation. “Summer YouthQuest is all about mitigating the ‘summer slide,’ which is a term used to describe the learning loss students experience while they’re out of school,” said Leslie Davis, director of Afterschool Education at Flint & Genesee… Read More 

One glance at Milton Straham III’s resume is all it takes to see that he’s a go-getter. Since graduating from Genesee Early College in 2014, he’s earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting as well as an MBA. For the last year or so, he’s been working for a major accounting firm, and on the entrepreneurial side, he… Read More