Inspiring Minds Widens Reach Here, Nationwide

WARREN – Inspiring Minds, a community organization that shows young people the possibilities that await them, last year increased its enrollment in the Mahoning Valley and expanded to three other cities. It will add six more chapters this year. The Warren chapter experienced a full-circle moment when it hosted its annual gala in its own…

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Inspired to Serve More Students

Inspiring Minds gets $100,000 grant WARREN — A student support program that provides unique learning experiences is getting a financial boost from a local organization. The Youngstown Foundation recently announced it was providing $300,000 worth of funding to several local organizations, and the largest portion of that is a $100,000 contribution to Inspiring Minds. The…

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Students Practice Business Skills in Marketplace Workshop

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — The Youngstown Business Incubator hosted the Inspiring Minds youth marketplace on Friday. The event showcased scholars and supported young entrepreneurs. Each student presented a business plan and product in individual booths, and students were selling items from artwork to lemonade to clothing. Not only were the students able to show off their work. they…

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Youngstown Foundation Announces $380K in Grants

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Youngstown Foundation today announced $380,000 in new grants, including $100,000 for the Inspiring Minds Youth Enrichment program, an initiative that aims to equip and inspire young people to discover and pursue success. Inspiring Minds provides after-school and summer enrichment programs to students in Youngstown and Warren. The programs focus on education,…

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Valley’s Future Business Leaders to Showcase Talents Friday

Some of the Valley’s most intelligent and enterprising young people are showing off their innovative business ideas in Downtown Youngstown on Friday. The Youngstown Business Incubator is sponsoring the Inspiring Minds Youth Marketplace, an event showcasing the entrepreneurial spirit of young students. The marketplace will feature scholar showcases, where each participant will have a booth…

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Inspiring Minds Marketplace Opens Today

INSPIRING MINDS MARKETPLACE: The third annual Inspiring Minds summer market will be 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Warren G. Harding High School’s Mollenkopf Stadium, 860 Elm Road NE, Warren. The market highlights what students at Inspiring Minds learned about entrepreneurship by showcasing more than 30 businesses they created throughout the summer program. CHURCH…

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Inspiring Minds Opens Doors for Youth

Annual gala raises funds, awareness for mentorship program WARREN — More than 18 years after not fulfilling a dream of a long NFL career, Deryck Toles had not imagined the idea of helping five students from his old neighborhood in Warren would blossom into a program with chapters in five cities and a new one…

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In Bedford-Stuyvesant Inspiring Minds is Creating a Communiversity

Katrena Perou, Executive Director, Inspiring Minds Katrena Perou, the Executive Director of the Brooklyn based not-for-profit Inspiring Minds, was standing in front of 45 students from the Nelson Mandela School of Social Justice in Bedford-Stuyvesant. It was the orientation for the February 27th opening of this innovative culturally responsive community school model, which aims to…

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Student Engagement During the Pandemic

NEW YORK CITY — These days the common thread among teens, even from different schools, is what they have suffered through during this pandemic and the process of remote learning. Katrena Perou is the executive director at Inspiring Minds, a nonprofit serving more than 300 at risk Black and Brown kids across New York City.…

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