Continued Success: 2023-2024 Results SPIRIT NYS Creates Opportunities for Students in Rochester, NY Changing the Lives of Homeless and Parentally Insecure Teens SPIRIT NYS launched in September 2021, supporting 22 students from one school, Franklin Upper, in the city of Rochester. Within the 2023-2024 school year, SPIRIT NYS continued its work in supporting high schoolers…
SPIRIT NYS is Delivering Outstanding Results In Rochester, NY Changing the Lives of Homeless and Parentally Insecure Teens SPIRIT NYS launched in September 2021 at Franklin Upper with 22 students. In 2022 and 2023, we extended operations to three other schools: Edison Tech, Northeast, and Vertus. The 2022-2023 school year enrollment included 16 students at…
Our list of graduates grows! Ten high school seniors graduated this month and five more are on track to receive diplomas by August. Three of our graduating seniors were granted college scholarships. SPIRIT has offered our students the support that helped them finish high school despite the enormous obstacles they faced in living on their…
On January 19, 2023 supporters of SPIRIT NYS came out to meet each other and socialize while raising more funds to help homeless youth finish high school. We met at Hose 22, which also held a SPIRIT week to educate their customers about our efforts, created a special drink and gave us a portion of…
John F. Wegman Fund provides grant to Spirit NYS ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Homeless and parentally insecure students will receive mentoring, school supplies and other support through a grant from the John F. Wegman Fund at the Rochester Area Community Foundation, which has designated $10,000 to advance the work of Spirit NYS, a nonprofit organization active in the…
Spirit NYS initiates Operations We launched in September 2021 at Franklin Upper. In Late 2021, and early 2022, we extended operations to two other schools, Edison and Northeast High School. Enrollment included 22 at Franklin, 10 at Edison, and 7 at Northeast High School. Our primary mission is to enable homeless students to remain in…
University of Rochester students earning a Digital Media Studies degree improved our SPIRIT NYS website and social media as the focus of their 2021-2022 capstone project. Their efforts led to increased visits to our website and greater interaction with our social media. They describe their process in this video: Project | Spiritcapstoneteam The students…
In 2020, John Thompson and Mary Thompson founded a non-profit organization – SPIRITNYS, that aids to prevent dropouts for home insecure teenagers in the city of Rochester. The homeless students used to be labeled as “invisible millions” nationwide. In the city of Rochester, the high school graduation rate for homeless students is merely 40%. Thus,…
Fact 1 Nearly 1 out of every 10 New York public school students were homeless last year. To put that into perspective, consider an average sized friend group is around 10 people. Amongst every ten friends that you have, you will have one homeless friend. Let’s say you run into 30 different people at school…