Mazie Mentees Set and Achieve their Goals

The John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation hosts Goal Achievement Award Night

WALTHAM, Mass. – On Feb. 24, the John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming at-risk or disadvantaged youth into adults of promise, honored 15 Waltham High School students for setting and achieving academic and philanthropic goals as participants of the Mazie Mentoring Program. Ten mentees were awarded $20 gift certificates to Panera Bread for completing two community service initiatives. Five mentees received free lap top computers for meeting a college research goal and reading their college essays aloud to the more than 50 people in attendance. The event was hosted by Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, a Waltham-based architectural firm and long-time supporter of the Foundation. Over the past 16 years, the Mazie Mentoring Program, a unique goal-oriented scholarship award giving program, has helped more than 500 young people go on to lead more fulfilled and successful lives while inspiring the adult volunteer mentors who work with them. Mentors work with students for five semesters to improve their academic standing, build confidence, apply to college and experience success. Students work to set and achieve goals while earning rewards along the way. Each year, the Mazie Mentoring Program accepts 60 Framingham and Waltham High School students. More than 90 percent of those in the program graduate from high school and more than 70 percent go on to college or other post-secondary training programs. For more information about the Mazie Mentoring Program, to become a mentor, or to support the John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation, visit www.mazie.org.

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