n Exciting New Partnership with Cristo Rey Boston

Our involvement with Cristo Rey Boston is a natural fit for us. I have a longstanding, personal interest in supporting innovative models of alternate education. Our nation’s existing educational system is broken and failing in many places. I’m inspired by a private, faith-based education that offers an innovative work-study approach where the results are indisputable: 100% of Cristo Rey Boston’s graduates have been accepted to four-year colleges for the past two years.

 I’m also passionate about entrepreneurism and believe that exposing high school students to the wide world of work can spark new ideas about what it takes to succeed in the professional marketplace and demonstrate how to have an impact in your community and world.

Most importantly, however, is the win-win-win opportunity that the Corporate Work Study program offers to all its participants. By reaching out to local businesses of all sizes in diverse industries and professional areas, Cristo Rey Boston is forging key collaborative relationships that help sustain the school’s mission and values. They are demonstrating to their business partners and the wider community that “you can make a difference” in tangible ways that go far beyond a traditional donation.

 Participating businesses discover how powerfully their commitment to job training and mentoring can impact students and help create promising futures.  And the Cristo Rey Boston students are engaged in interesting, meaningful work that exposes them to professional environments and expectations.

 The students working at Wealth Impact Partners are outstanding examples of the Cristo Rey model. They are mature, thoughtful, future-focused young men and woman, who come to work well-prepared, unafraid to ask questions, and eager to learn. We all look forward to a successful year ahead.

Peace,

Ron Ware