2020 Excelsior finalist: Rockford Promise clears path to college
Organization: Rockford Promise
Address: 1643 N. Alpine Road, Suite 104, No. 102, Rockford. (It’s a post office box at the Postal Shoppe at Edgebrook.)
Phone: 815-627-0491
Total staff: 2.5, an executive director, scholar and mentor coordinator, and part-time administrative assistant.
Annual budget: $370,959; $312,000 reserved for scholarships, $204,000 paid out. In 2020, Rockford Promise awarded scholarship funds to five students to attend Rockford University and 24 students to attend Rock Valley College.
Mission: Rockford Promise is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) location-based scholarship program that offers full-tuition scholarships to deserving graduates of Rockford Public Schools. Modeled after Promise programs around the nation, the goal is to increase educational attainment in our community while providing a powerful economic incentive for residents and businesses to locate in the Rockford region.
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On a new episode of Teachers Lounge: Mike McHale. He’s a professor at Rockford University and a math and physics teacher at Byron High School. Mike is also a cross country coach and we talk about running during the COVID-19 season. He and host Peter Medlin chat about the potential closure of the Byron Nuclear Generating Station and the effect it could have on the school, community and his own personal connection to the plant. And they talk about Mike’s music hobby and a music video he helped make for students when schools closed in the spring.