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Welcome to Minds Matter

Minds Matter of Cleveland is a chapter of the national Minds Matter organization. Since its founding in New York City in 1991, the effectiveness of Minds Matter has been affirmed - 100 percent of its students have been accepted into a four-year college. The organization has expanded to eight cities, including Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, and San Francisco.

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MM Calendar

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Minds Matter 1st Inaugural Senior Graduation!

Join us on May 21st to see our first-ever Minds Matter Senior Graduation!

When: May 21st, 2011 (Saturday)

Location: Case Western Reserve University, at the Ford Auditorium (10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH)

Our Volunteers

Minds Matter of Cleveland is managed exclusively by volunteers - we don't have a single paid staff member. Our team is comprised of 120 young professionals who represent 30 different companies in Northeast Ohio, including The Sherwin-Williams Company, KeyBank, PNC, Ernst & Young and many more.

Fifteen of our volunteers received awards from President Barack Obama. Cumulatively, our teammates spent more than 7,000 hours volunteering last year.

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Cleveland High School Students Attend Elite College Summer Programs

High school students experience college life at 15 different summer programs across the country

CLEVELAND – In high schools across the country, when the final class dismissal bell rings each year in early June, the students scatter and begin a three-month vacation from all academics. They may have summer jobs or internships, but often the days are filled with social activities and relaxing at home. Unless, of course, you look at the students involved in the Cleveland Minds Matter program. Instead of a summer filled with some “R and R,” these students will challenge themselves both inside and out of the classrooms on the campuses of Harvard, Cornell, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities.

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Minds Matter Provides Premier Academic Programs for Cleveland High School Students

Nationally recognized organization helps academically promising, financially challenged students

CLEVELAND – In high schools across the country, the talents of many young men and women are being stifled because they don’t have the resources to reach the crucial next step in their intellectual development – attending college. These high school students possess the knowledge and aptitude to advance, but they need extra help refining their academic skills, navigating the application processes and obtaining the necessary financial aid to make higher education a reality.

And, according to a study from Cleveland State University, though nearly all high school graduates intend to continue their education beyond high school, only 50 percent actually do. In Cleveland, a group of young professionals has organized to help boost that percentage, and serve as the resource that underprivileged high schools students need by forming the nation’s sixth chapter of Minds Matter.

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