Student Sponsor Group Names New Director
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A nonprofit that sends at-risk children to parochial high schools in New York City and has an 84% graduation rate, Student Sponsor Partners, yesterday named a new executive director, Margaret Minson.
Mrs. Minson, who attended Stella Maris High School in Queens and St. Joseph College in Brooklyn, assumes her post July 30, with expansion in mind.
“One of the first things I’m going to do is add more schools,” Mrs. Minson said. “I’ve met with the Sisters of St. Joseph, and another school in the Bronx, and I want to break into the Jesuit community.”
Student Sponsor Partners currently has 1,200 students placed at 20 schools, supervised by school staff and adult mentors from the community.
The program works, Mrs. Minson said, because the schools “literally make it their mission not to lose any of these kids — they do whatever it takes.”
Ms. Minson most recently served as Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Marymount Manhattan College.
