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ALUMNI PROGRESS
Alumni are very important to Futures and Options Inc. Their success completes and confirms our mission of connecting urban youth to careers. As 95 percent of FAO alumni go on to college and to productive careers, we maintain a database on our alumni for tracking and evaluation purposes.
After college...FAO alumni have landed full-time jobs at Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, L'Oreal, Standard and Poor's, Morgan Stanley, Lutz & Carr CPA's LLP, LG Reality Solutions, State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer's office, IBM, Samuel A. Ramirez & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Smith Barney, and Bank of New York... And with a pool of entry-level workers with experience at major companies, the business world is profiting from investing in their own future!
The Municipal Forum of New York Inc. awards $1,000 scholarships to alumni of their partnership program with FAO (Urban Leadership Fellows Program) who complete their freshman, sophomore or junior year in college with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. In 2004, 34 alumni qualified. In 2005, 46 alumni qualified. In addition, a $1,500 Community Service Award is given for the best essay on community service done during the first three years of college.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
Here are just a few examples of alumni excellence:
Magdalena B. ('02) is pursuing a degree in Finance at Baruch College. She has continued to work part-time at Hawkins, Delafield and Wood since she interned there in the summer of 2002.
JunChan H. ('01) graduated from Seward Park High School in 2001 and interned at the Loews Corporation that summer. He graduated from Hamilton College in June 2005 with a degree in Chemistry & Math and joined the Municipal Securities Group at UBS in July 2005.
Dmitrijs N. ('01) graduated from Economics and Finance High School in 2001 and interned at the law firm of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP, that summer. He graduated from Baruch College with a degree in Finance in June 2005 and joined the Analyst Program at Morgan Stanley in July 2005.
Julienne M. ('00) interned at Merrill Lynch and graduated from Beach Channel High School in 2000. She continued to work part-time at Merrill Lynch while attending Baruch College. She graduated June 2004 with a degree in Marketing and is now a Sales Planning Administrator for L'Oreal Paris.
Mabel E. ('00) graduated from Bentley College in 2004 with a degree in marketing. She is working full-time for Smith Barney in their Private Client Division.
Linda Y. ('97) interned at Standard & Poor's after graduating from John Dewey High School in 1997. She worked at S&P part-time while pursuing her undergraduate degree at Pace University. Since 2001, she has been a Research Associate in the Public Finance Department at S&P. She completed her MBA at Pace University in summer 2005.
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