Mrs. Ginny Donohue

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  Virginia "Ginny" Donohue, Executive Director and Founder On Point for College in Syracuse, New York
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  Virginia "Ginny" Donohue, Executive Director and Founder
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  For Virginia Donohue, the success of first generation college youth is not just a job, but her life's calling. Donohue moved from being On Point for College's first and only employee to leading a college access and retention program that has helped over 1,300 inner city youth enroll in 160 colleges and universities and, to date, celebrated the graduation of 200 of those young people. Her vision and leadership have an impact not only on her city, but also help to transform access and retention systems through the state. A $1,000 award will be paid to the organization in support of a new, one-time scholarship made in honor of the recipient. Ginny also received a glass sculpture.

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  Virginia Donohue, Founder/Executive Director, On Point for College
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  Ms. Donohue, founder and executive director of On Point for College since 1999, plans to visit three national college access experts to learn how they guided organizations through the transition to become larger and sustainable.

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  (Ginny Donahue is the Executive Director of On Point for College Inc.

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  Syracuse (November 28, 2007) The Central New York Community Foundation is proud to announce the 2007-2008 John F. Marsellus Sabbatical recipients: Virginia Donohue, Founder/Executive Director, On Point for College Mary Keough, Founder and Executive Director, Sarah House Ms. Donohue, founder and executive director of On Point for College since 1999, plans to visit three national college access experts to learn how they guided organizations through the transition to become larger and sustainable.

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  The honorees are Virginia "Ginny" Donohue, executive director of On Point for College, and Dick Ford, executive director of Signature Syracuse.
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  Donohue began working from the trunk of her car in 1999 and founded On Point for College in August of that year.

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  Ginny Donohue
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  "You have a plan of action, then you just do it," Ginny Donohue says, recalling her career switch from teaching to the corporate world.In that world, Ginny was the first woman in every post she held.Such lessons in determination were not lost on her daughter.When a fellow high schooler complained about not having the resources to go to college, his young friend replied, "Sure you can go.My mother will find a way."And Ginny did.
  
  Soon after, Ginny recalls, she helped "a couch kid-someone who couldn't live at home so just went from sleeping on one couch to another."After he got into college, two other kids approached her."They were in a program for chronically homeless kids, and when I went to pick them up, a whole bunch of kids piled into my car."
  
  They continued to pile in, and Ginny continued to work with them on an ad hoc basis until 1999, when she made another career switch-this time leaving a successful executive career to found On Point for College, a nonprofit organization in Syracuse that helps kids from low-income families go to college.The organization has since helped more than 1,000 inner-city youth go to state and community colleges, and an impressive list of private colleges and universities across the country.
  
  From the start, Ginny understood that the challenge wasn't just about advocacy, admissions counseling, or helping kids with forms, but one of providing a supportive environment.On Point students are tutored in how to budget time, work in study groups, get along with roommates; they are provided with backpacks, alarm clocks, bedding, clothes, and all the other basic back-to-school supplies.
  
  Often, it's just a little thing keeping them out of college.Ginny recalls a boy whose family members were political refugees from Togo.
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  "A lot of their parents are living on the edge," Ginny explains.

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  Ginny Donohue, Founder, On Point for College
  
  Ginny Donohue founded On Point for College in April of 1999 after 12 years of helping one student and then another.A former teacher from inner-city schools, she found herself as a vice president of a local cable company before she felt the urging of her daughter to help a friend.This gentle plea led her from one student to another, always with the mission of helping what was turning out to be a population who thought they could not go to college find a way to do exactly that.She has grown the project to embrace a support staff with strong volunteer support.The program currently serves more than 1,100 young people.Today, 650 youth are enrolled in 108 different two and four-year colleges.Donohue has been citied for her work with low-income, first generation young people.She has been the recipient of Syracuse University's Martin Luther King "Unsung Hero" Award, Post Standard Achievement Award and Ben & Jerry's "Citizen Cool" Award which included coverage in their movie "The Difference."She has been able to attract funding from a number of foundations, including the prestigious Lumina Foundation.
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  Triand serves districts in Texas, Arkansas and Virginia and is the exclusive electronic transcript service for the Arkansas Department of Education.

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  Its work has earned its founder, Ginny Donohue, the 2004 Post Standard Achievement Award; the 2003 Martin Luther King "Unsung Hero" Award from Syracuse University; and the Caring and Sharing Award from the Boys' and Girls' Clubs of Syracuse.

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  Ginny Donohue, Founder, On Point for College

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  Guest speaker for the June 18th service will be Mrs. Ginny Donohue, founder of ON POINT FOR COLLEGE and 2004 Post Standard Achievement Award Recipient.
  
  "We are indeed fortunate and excited at the prospect of welcoming Ginny Donohue to Bet Havarim," said Shabbat Committee Chairman, Mel Shindler, "Ginny started On Point For College in 1999 as a non-profit organization solely dedicated to helping urban teenagers overcome financial and academic obstacles in order to pursue a college education." "We are indeed fortunate and excited at the prospect of welcoming Ginny Donohue to Bet Havarim," said Shabbat Committee Chairman, Mel Shindler, "Ginny started On Point For College in 1999 as a non-profit organization solely dedicated to helping urban teenagers overcome financial and academic obstacles in order to pursue a college education."
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  Mrs. Donohue's career began with her Philosophy/Sociology Degree from Lemoyne College, followed by a M.S. in Urban Education from Syracuse University and ultimately receiving an Accounting Degree from SUNY Oswego.Beginning as a teacher and ultimately turning to the business arena Mrs. Donohue ended a thirteen year career as a corporate executive when she founded On Point For College.
  
  Recipient of numerous awards including Syracuse Rotary's Annual "Service Above Self Award" and Syracuse University's Martin Luther King "Unsung Hero" Award, Mrs. Donohue in the five years of On Point For College's existence has enabled 450 financially disadvantaged young urban Syracusans to go on to 80 colleges and universities.
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  "We will be announcing a number of interesting Shabbat Guest Speakers as well as several programs of interest to the community," said Shindler, "we hope the community will attend our June 18th Shabbat service as Bet Havarim welcomes and honors Ginny Donohue."

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