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SPNM Scholarship Program
The HBS Club of Washington is pleased to announce
the 2010 Social Enterprise Scholarship Winner,
Amy Nakamoto, Exeutive Director of DC SCORES.
Amy Nakamoto, a native of Falls Church, VA, began her tenure at DC SCORES in 2006. From 2003-2006, Amy coached the women's soccer team at Bryn Mawr College where she also assisted in the creation of a student-athlete leadership program, a community-outreach physical education course, and various other campus wellness initiatives. Since 2000, Amy has been involved with SportsChallenge Leadership and Education Alliance and Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) where she has conducted numerous workshops, clinics, camps, and leadership facilitations. She currently serves on the board of directors of DC Alliance of Youth Advocates and SportsChallenge Leadership and Education Alliance, and in March 2010 she was named a Sports Ethics Fellow as part of National Sportsmanship Day by PCA and the Institute for International Sport. She has also coached soccer at youth club levels since 2000. Amy graduated from North Carolina State University in 1998 where she was a four-year member of the women's soccer team. In 1999, Amy spent a year at Northeastern University's Center ofthe study of Sport in Society as an “Athletes in Services to America” AmeriCorps member before receiving a master's degree in Exercise and Sport Science from UNC-Greensboro. In 2003, Amy received a second master's degree in Human Development in Education from the University of Pennsylvania.
DC SCORES' mission is to inspire youth to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students, and become agents of change in their communities. DC SCORES enrolls over 700 students between the ages of 8-15 at 23 elementary and middle public and public charter schools across D.C.
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Last year’s Scholarship Winner was Sister Mary Bourdon, Executive Director of Washington Middle School for Girls (WMSG).
Sister Mary Bourdon, RJM, is Co-Founder and Director of WMSG and a Licensed Professional Counselor in the District of Columbia. She has served as Director of the school since its inception in September 1998. She is responsible for the overall management, finances and development, and works closely with the two Campus Administrators to maintain the everyday operation of the school. She has more than 35 years of experience in education, counseling, administration,and Board membership.
Sister Bourdon earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from American University in 1971, and a Master of Science in Counseling from Loyola College of Maryland in 1984.
WMSG, founded and incorporated in 1997, is an independent, privately financed school, serving an at risk population in the Southeast quadrant of Washington,DC. WMSG resulted from the concerns of a group of women in the Washington area. Their hope was to provide an educational environment for young girls that would engage their gifts and help them develop to their full potential. The school is nurtured and sustained by the spirits of courageous women whose legacies live on in three organizations: The National Council of Negro Women and two orders of Catholic Sisters: The Society of the Holy Child Jesus and the Religious of Jesus and Mary.
WMSG is located in two campuses: 4th and 5th grade at The VIEW students for 6, 7,8th grades at THEARC. (Town Hall Education, Arts,and Recreation Center). Here WMSG partners with organizations such as Washington Ballet, Levine School of Music, and Children’s Nat'l. Med. Center, etc. to bring the arts and a"larger world" to our students. The Program includes: A holistic education in core curriculum areas (7:45 am—3:30 pm). . An After School Program (3:45 – 5:30 p.m.) directed by a professional educator with the assistance of volunteers to provide remedial and enrichment activities including opportunities for participation in fine arts and a wide variety of student clubs.
WMSG’s summer camp for incoming and current students; a free, five-week educational and recreational program each summer. A Graduate Support Program that assists WMSG students and their families with application and acceptance to good local secondary schools, and continues to track students’ progress as they move through high school and beyond. Family/School Cooperation, encouraged through regularly scheduled meetings with administrators, teachers, which strives to involve parents and family in every aspect of the educational process. The majority of WMSG students reside in Ward 8, one of the “hot spot” neighborhoods outlined by DC's Police. Most live in single parent households, with incomes at or below poverty level.
Read More about Sister Mary Bourdon in the Washingtonian Magazine, December 2009.
www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/14432.html
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The Harvard Business School Club of Washington, D.C.
is pleased to offer an annual scholarship for
the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM)
executive education course in Boston, MA. Each year, we accept applications from CEOs, Presidents, or Executive Directors of
nonprofit organizations in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. More information regarding the SPNM program may be
found at http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/spnm.
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