Simon Malls® wrap up a big holiday gift for Simon Youth Foundation
On top of making 2011 holiday gifts look great this year, the gift wrap centers at 35 nationwide Simon Malls are pledging their seasonal proceeds to Simon Youth Foundation and other local charities in their communities. The gift wrap program is expected to raise more than $192,000 with half of that total going to SYF to benefit its two major initiatives: Simon Youth Academies and Simon Youth Scholarships. Click here to read more and see a complete... Read More
Simon Youth Foundation President: corporate support of public alternative education is good business
Simon Youth Foundation President and CEO J. Michael Durnil, Ph.D., was a featured guest on Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick for the week of August 21, 2011. The program, which is broadcast on a network of 15 local affiliate television stations, is Indiana’s only statewide business news program. During his interview, Durnil explained that students who dropout of high school will earn nearly $300,000 less over their lifetime and are twice... Read More
Simon Youth Foundation students have graduation in the bag with support from New Jersey mall shoppers
Shopping bags are a convenient way of carrying purchases from store to home, but in Jersey City, N.J., merchandise bags sold to shoppers at Newport Centre, a Simon Malls property, have carried Simon Youth Foundation high school seniors to their graduation day. A Newport Centre customer poses for a photo after making a Simon shopping bag purchase The blue bags with the Simon logo are sold at the Newport Centre guest-services desk for... Read More
Simon Youth Foundation bowled over by support of NFL’s San Francisco 49ers
Photo courtesy of 49ers.com Former greats, current coaches and staff from the National Football League’s San Francisco 49ers traded in their cleats and the pigskin for multi-colored shoes and a bowling ball on May 27, 2011, at a Bowl for Youth event hosted by the Sea Bowl in Pacifica, Calif. The 49ers Foundation hosted the event to benefit its programs, Simon Youth Foundation and Bayview Hunters Point YMCA. All the organizations... Read More
Simon Youth Foundation shopping for higher profile
The following story was published in the Indianapolis Business Journal for the week of May 2-8, 2011, and is reproduced here with permission. By Kathleen McLaughlin Washington Square Mall is not convenient for many of the students who attend the Pacers Academy High School that’s tucked at the end of one corridor. The students drive or take city buses from all parts of town to the mall on the far-east side of Indianapolis. Yet the students... Read More
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