Announcing: College Possible Chicago!
COL L E GE P OSS I B L E
We’re saving the date for the Chicago class of 2021
1515 N. Rivercenter Drive, Suite 105
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Phone: 414.220.9450
CollegePossible.org/Milwaukee
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College P o s s i b l e is a nonprofit
organization making college
admission and success possible for
low-income students through an
intensive curriculum of coaching and
support. Our services include:
When Victoria was in high school, she knew about College
Possible before it knew about her. As a sophomore, she watched
a friend a year ahead of her go on multiple campus visits, take
numerous practice ACTs and participate in many volunteer
opportunities. She knew she needed to join, and says it has been
one of the best decisions she has made in her life.
college application assistance
financial aid consulting
Victoria joined College Possible her junior year, in 2009. This
spring, Victoria will not only be graduating from the College
Possible program, but also from St. Norbert College, where she
will earn her bachelor’s degree in sociology.
guidance in the college transition
Thanks to an amazing welcome and show of support in Chicago,
we’re laying the groundwork to serve students in the Windy
City this year!
“In communities across the country, our partners have proved
that with the right support, a college diploma can be a part of any
promising low-income student’s future,” said College Possible CEO
and Founder Jim McCorkell.
“Over the past year, after many conversations with Chicago’s
education, philanthropy and community leaders, we came to the
conclusion that College Possible can help create better futures
for Chicago’s students. We are thrilled to be able to help more
students begin on the path to college graduation this fall.”
View more news and updates about our progress toward launching
College Possible Chicago at CollegePossible.org/Chicago.
Leader Feature: Dr. Heather Hackman
Equity and Social Justice Consultant and Educator
Challenges us all to Open Ourselves to Ideas, One Another
“When we talk about social justice issues, people worry that it’s
all going to be about guilt and shame and blame. There’s
no time for all that. It’s not about guilt and shame and
blame, it’s about waking up, catching up and showing up.
“We can then show up with dignity and grace. We can’t keep
leaving the room when conversations about race or class or
gender oppression or any other form of oppression happen.”
Learn more about Dr. Hackman at HackmanConsultingGroup.org
“We need to wake up to the inequities in our society and catch
up by educating ourselves more deeply about social justice issues
(particularly the ones where we are in the dominant group). That is
what social justice education offers - a gentle but persistent call to
‘wake up.’ Only then can we learn what we need to learn in order to
bring about social justice in our society.
“Real change is about waking up,
catching up and showing up.”
- Dr. Heather Hackman
T R I -ANNUAL NE WS L E T T E R O F CO L L E GE P OSS I BL E
VOLUME VII • SPRING 2015 • OPEN A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY
From Recruit to Alumnae
academic support through ACT/
SAT test preparation
Image: (c) 2011, Eric Pancer. Creative Commons 3.0
THE GATE
support toward college degree
completion
College Possible
congratulates
Sukaina Yacoob
on her college graduation this spring
College: Milwaukee School of Engineering
Major: Biomedical Engineering
High School: St. Joan Antida ‘11
“College Possible meant having someone
to make sure I was on the right track and
doing what I needed to do to graduate from
college.”
-Sukaina Yacoob
Neither of Victoria’s parents went to college, so she was
determined to get the most from her college experience. Just
attending and graduating wasn’t enough. She is the Vice President
for St. Norbert’s Student Government Association, a mentor for
a multicultural freshmen group on campus, an after school
program assistant with the Boys and Girls Club of Green Bay
and an intern with the Green Bay Police Department.
Victoria hopes to make a difference in the world by becoming an
FBI agent in the future.
Victoria (right) studying the ACT as a junior at Milwaukee
School of Languages.
Victoria will graduate from St. Norbert College this May
with a bachelor’s degree in sociology.
She credits College Possible for not only getting her to and
through college, but for believing in her the whole time.
“I would like to thank College Possible and their supporters,” she
says. “My parents did not graduate from college and I can’t wait
for them to hear my name as I walk across that graduation stage.”
“
College Possible has
made me believe I can
achieve anything. I always
had someone behind
m e ro o t i n g fo r m e to b e
som et hing great .”
- Victoria, College Possible student, St. Norbert College,
Class of 2015
Susan Mikulay - Chair
Communications Consultant
Megan Bern
CoreLogic
David Gay
EY
Christine Holloway
CDW
Kim Irwin
Community Volunteer
David Kundert
Retired, JPMorgan Fleming
Matt Kurlinkski
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Katie Lucey
Assurant Health
Nicole Reid
Generation Growth Capital, Inc.
Dick Seesel
Retailing in Focus LLC
MILWAUKEE
LEADERSHIP
Edie Turnbull
Executive Director
Kelly Schaer
Program Director
High School Program Coordinator
Somkhit Boonheuan
College Program Coordinator
Suzie Considine
If you don’t mind, I’m going to name
drop a little. At our recent Dream Big
Dinner, I got to hang out with the likes
of Jocelyn Rodriguez, DeAnna
Washington, Victoria McAlpine and
Richard Esparza.
Each of these graduates will make a
positive difference in the world and
their community, and all are grateful for
the help and support they received
throughout high school and college
from College Possible.
Most of our students are the first in
their families to go to college, but by
sticking with it and investing the time
and energy in getting their college
High School Program Coordinator
Paolo Guttadauro
Operations Coordinator
Erica Harwell
Sam Mott
Victoria McAlpine, Alma Vega, Jocelyn Rodriguez,
Richard Esparza, DeAnna Washington, Victoria McNeal
Laura Liu
Cassie Cramer
Traci Kirtley
Chief Program Officer
CLASS OF 2015
Terry Calhoun
Marquette University
Courtney Perry
Marquette University
Pachia Chang
Cardinal Stritch
University
Amanda Rentas
UW-Milwaukee
Suzie Chang
Edgewood College
Regina Dew
Alverno College
Tacharra Edwards
Cardinal Stritch
University
Victoria McAlpine
UW-Whitewater
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Advancement Officer
degree, they have reached a major life
goal. College Possible is very proud to
have worked with them and learned
from them, and we’re blessed to be able
to celebrate this major achievement
with them.
Amanda Lee
Cardinal Stritch
University
Katie Reinhart
Major Gifts Officer
Chief Executive Officer
$100,000 - $499,999
Burke Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Serve Wisconsin
Reginia Hillman
Marquette University
External Relations Coordinator
Jim McCorkell
$500,000 +
Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty
Corporation
Richard Esparza
UW-Madison
High School Program Coordinator
NATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
CORPORATIONS,
FOUNDATIONS, HONORS,
MEMORIAL & INDIVIDUAL GIFTS
College Possible is
supported by AmeriCorps,
AmeriCorps VISTA and
Serve Wisconsin
Victoria McNeal
St. Norbert College
Jocelyn Rodriguez
Alverno College
Candace Smith
Cardinal Stritch
University
Treshon Tipton
Dillard University
Goldhmong Vang
Tufts University
Alma Vega
Mount Mary College
DeAnna Washington
UW-Milwaukee
Chinetta Wright
Alverno College
Sukaina Yacoob
Milwaukee School of
Engineering
$50,000 - $99,999
The Richard & Ethel Herzfeld Foundation
$20,000 - $49,999
AT&T Foundation•
Brady Corporation
Forest County Potawatomi Foundation
Madeleine and David Lubar
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County
$10,000 - $19,999
Anon Charitable Trust
Charles D. Jacobus Family Foundation
Susan* and Robert Mikulay
The Pentair Foundation
Gene and Ruth Posner Foundation
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
Weyco Group/Jennifer & Tom Florsheim
$5,000 - $9,999
Helen and Bruce Ambuel
The Catholic Community Foundation
Gardner Foundation
General Mills Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Luedke-Smith Fund
Christine* and Barry Holloway
Kim* and David Irwin
Katie* and David Lucey
M&I Foundation
Mary Martha & Emmett J. Doerr Charitable Trust
Nicholas Family Foundation
Physicians Realty Trust
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Vincent and June Gleason)
Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors Youth Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Patricia Smith Wilmeth Fund (In Memory of Pat Wilmeth)
Green Bay Packers Foundation
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Mike Heyer
Jill and Peter Holbrook
Nancy Jacobs
Jacobson/Rost - Michele & Jerry Flemma
Mary and Ted Kellner
Anna Kelm Memorial
Krause Family Foundation
Meg and Matt Kurlinski*
Kwik Trip
Nancy and Arthur Laskin
Kim Wilmeth Miller (In Memory of Pat Wilmeth)
Milwaukee College Prep
George and Julie Mosher Family Foundation
Patricia O’Brien Longabaugh
Marcus and Connie Perry
Candy and Bruce Pindyck
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren
Nancy and Michael Roos
Susan Rusch
Emily F. Seesel (in honor of Richard J. Seesel*)
Schlitz Park
David & Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation
Urban & Taylor, SC.
Ellen and Robert Venable
WaterStone Bank
We Energies Foundation
Sally Wilmeth and Terry Geurkink Family Fund (in memory of Patricia S. Wilmeth)
$1,000 - $2,499
Megan Bern* and Werner Loots
Amy and Jason Diamond (in honor of Susan* and Bob Mikulay)
Donna Drosner and Jeff Pink (in honor of Alice Drosner)
The Chas Edelstein Ne Pro Meus Solus Fund (in honor of Basil and Marianne Salaymeh)
Fiserv
Generation Growth Capital
Lisa and James Gleason (in memory of $500 - $999
Terri and Keith Baisden
Carla and Burt Bartlett
Melanie and Steven Booth
Kimberly and Gary Draeger
Ellen Drought
Anne and Dean Fitzgerald
Bill & Susanne Gay (in honor of David Gay)
Amanda and Jacinto Gentine
Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s James and Vicki Capadona Family Fund
Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Colton Charitable Fund
Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Judith A. Keyes Family Fund
Sangeeta and Raman Khanna
Scott and Tess Klug
Kate Martin
Milwaukee PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Heather Nasca and Patrick Finger
Susan Nemetz
Rhonda and Gregory Oberland
Kris and Mark O’Meara
John and Eva Osborne
Bryan Ott
Susan and Tom Parks
Thomas Perlman (in honor of Dick Seesel*)
Wendy and Andrew Petzold
Alice Read and Drew Palin
Carrie and Bart Reuter
Pamela and Jeffrey Shovers
Stacy Adams Shoe Company
L. William Staudenmaier
Susi and Dick Stoll Charitable Fund
*Board Member
+ Staff Member
$2,500 - $4,999
About Face Media
Dorothy Inbusch Foundation
Michael Drescher
EY
Jackie and David Gay*
Camille and David Kundert*
Tracy and Jay Rothman
Shelly and Dick Seesel*
Weiss Family Foundation
Woman’s Club of Wisconsin
NEWS
Edie+ and Andy Turnbull
Kate Schuett Wasmer and John C. Wasmer III (in honor of Jennifer and Tom Florsheim)
Charles Whitaker
Sarah and Steve Zimmerman
$250 - $499
Cindy and Brian Adam
Lori and Kurt Bechthold
Carrie and James Bedore
Elizabeth and Andrew Bruce
Peter Coffey
Lydia Cooley and Andrew Lechtenberg
Molly and David Fritz (in honor of the Lubars)
Barbara Fuldner
Guissinger Family
Claire and Glen Hackmann
Irwin Family Charitable Fund
Kadie Jelenchick
Jewish Community Foundation’s Touraine & Harold Nash Donor Advised Fund
Niven and Pete Kingwill (in honor of Susan Mikulay*)
Mary Lacy
Barbara and Scott Lamers
Peggy Mead and Mike Jones
Sara and Amy Nolan
Peter Ogden
Rob and Kelly Olejniczak
Shweta and Daryl Pearlstein
Rory and Gwenn Peters
Matthew and Laurie Piette
Katy Resop Benway~ (in honor of the Saint Joan Antida Class of 2012)
Jerry Rubin
Mary Schroth
John H. Seesel (in honor of Dick Seesel*)
Marsha Sehler
Suzanne and Bud Selig (in honor of David and Madeleine Lubar)
Cheryl and Andrew Seter (in honor of Susan Mikulay*)
Kristin and Chuck Severson
Kathie and John Shutkin
Brenda Skelton and Jim Bendtsen (in honor and memory of our parents)
Marcia L. Smith (in honor of Susan Mikulay*)
Karen Steggall
Margy Stratton-Norman and Greg Norman
Alden and Gus Taylor
Nancy VandenBerg
Madonna and Jay Williams Family Fund (in honor of Tom and Jennifer Florsheim)
$100 - $249
Anonymous
Leigh Barker Cheesebro
The Brookby Foundation
Gretchen and William Burns
Cathy Carlson and Michael Bausch
Mike and Pam Carroll
Thomas Cassidy
Paige and Dan Conley
Julianna Ebert and Frank Daily
Scott and Gretchen Ecker
Timothy Erdmann
Constance Ganapes and James Mazzulla
Ellen and Gaetano Guttadauro
Paolo Guttadauro+
Heidi and Bob Hanley
Melonnie and John Hartl
James and Margaret Hartwig (in honor of David Kundert*)
Darla Hium (in honor of F. Thomas Ament)
~ Current or Former Corps Member
College Possible Milwaukee Board
Chair, Susan Mikulay has been
selected to receive the 2015 Marty
Stein Friend of National Service
Exemplary Supporter Award
presented by Serve Wisconsin!
She was nominated by College
Possible Milwaukee for the
outstanding work she has done to
support the organization. Thank
you, Susan, for your commitment
to College Possible students and
their AmeriCorps coaches.
James and Patricia Hoffman
Sue and Neil Hoffman
Amy Hopkins
Kim and Jon Howard
Jan and Frank Janzow (in memory of Dr. W. Th. Janzow)
Dan and Ellen Laubusch
Peter Layde and Family
Jan Lennon (in honor of Susan Mikulay* and Edie Turnbull+)
Mary and Dan Luckwaldt
Megan and James Madsen
Lynn and Terry McCreary
Mary and Scott McFadden
Sue and Gene Medford
Anne Mongoven
Elmer Moore
Sam Mott+~
Linda and Whitley Mott
Mary and Terry Murphy
Kirk Pelikan
Kristen and Tony Pisani
Suzanne M. Possell
Miriam Reading and Dick Miller
Melinda and Scott Redlinger
Katie Reinhart+ (in memory of Anna Kelm)
Ramona Rogers-Windsor and Thomas Windsor
Marina and John Rosenberg (in honor of Jennifer and Tom Florsheim)
Kelly Rourke and Andrew Hargarten
Kelly Schaer+ and Wendel Hruska
Eileen Schwalbach
Mary Ellen Spiegelberg
Brant and Calla Stanford
Jennifer and Charles Stearns
Tiffany Strong Salaam (in honor of the Strong Family)
Denise and Steven Trinkl
Adam and Amanda Tuzzo
Betty Ulmer and Pedro Colon
Katy and Dave Vetta
Beth and Timothy Wnuk
Erika and Jim Zaiser
Mary Lou Zuege
MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES:
Anonymous
Assurant Foundation Matching Gifts
CDW
• Is or includes pledged commitment
CLOSING THE DEGREE DIVIDE
NATIONAL NEWS
Jim McCorkell
CEO and Founder, College Possible
We’ve saved a seat for you:
Save th e Date
An open letter to our graduates
for the
Nearly 15 years ago now, I was inspired by you to start
College Possible. You and I hadn’t met yet (you were not more
than a few years old, in fact) but I wanted more students like
me—armed with determination and talent but not much in the
way of financial resources—to get to college. I knew
you’d be hard-working and bright and ready for all
the challenges in front of you.
“B efore you know it, you and all
your College Possible peers will
class of
I keep every one of you in mind as I work hard to grow
College Possible. Next year, College Possible will reach 20,000
students, then 50,000, then 100,000. In another 15 years College
Possible will be celebrating 30 years of service, our largest
graduating class ever and a greatly reduced degree divide.
I hope every College Possible alumni across America will join us
to celebrate. It’s a date!
Jim McCorkell,
CEO & Founder
Let’s pave the path for more graduates.
Our incoming class of high school juniors
will graduate in 2021 and College Possible
will support these promising students
along the way. We know our students
have what it takes to succeed.
have changed America in ways
we can’t even imagine yet.”
The class of 2015 graduates in May to a
changing world­
—one that increasingly
requires a college degree. But, only 8% of
low-income students earn one by age 24.
class of
2021
Amanda Leigh Albert
Edie Turnbull
You aren’t familiar those names? Well,
I’m confident you will be in the future.
These are just four of our 2015 College
Possible college graduates. They are
proud of what they have accomplished,
and are ready to embark on whatever is
next for them – a fulfilling career,
graduate school, or perhaps serving as a
College Possible coach.
Thanks to contributions from a broad base of supporters, we can help
m a ke co l l e g e p o s i b l e fo r g re ate r n u m b e r s o f l ow- i n co m e st u d e n t s !
Contributions from April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015.
DONORS
From the Desk of Executive Director
2015
MILWAUKEE
BOARD
Co ll eg e Po ss i bl e.o rg/ M i l wa u ke e
class of
2035
COLLEGE POSSIBLE’S GATE
We hope that the class of 2035­—20 years
from now—will graduate in a different
America, one where a child’s future is
determined soley by talent, motivation and
effort.
Joi n u s i n con grat u l at i n g ou r
gradu ates —
­ n ow an d i n t h e f u t u re.