![Marathon Education Partners sponsors yearly events that bring "scholars" and "partners" together. Activities include picnics, a winter event, and a "think tank," where students go to area businesses and learn more about what it takes to work there.](https://www.camaspostrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1019_hom_marathoneducationpartners3-300x200-c-center.jpg)
Program offers promising students A World of Possibilities
Like many great ideas, this one began with a run. A group of friends, all Nike attorneys, were out pounding the pavement one day soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, tossing back and forth ideas on how they could help improve their communities. From these early discussions, the seed for Marathon Education Partners was planted. It's a rather unique mentoring organization: Mentors, called "partners" are recruited from various professions, and are matched with a fourth-grade "scholar." They pledge $100 per month, for 10 years, to be put away in a college fund for the scholar.