Our Board

Executive Committee:

Frank Whiting, Chairman
President and Founder, The Whiting Group
YMEN Volunteer

Dave Schuurman, Vice-Chairman / Treasurer
President Residual Management, LLC
Free the Children Trust Scholarships

Percy Ollie
Business Analyst, Verizon Wireless
Founder, Ollie Photography
YMEN Alumni and Capital Campaign Volunteer

Development Committee:

Joe Riley, Asset Manager
Engineer for METRA
YMEN Volunteer

Program Committee:

Dakota Foster, Student Liaison
12th grade student at Little Village HS
YMEN Student Staff

Toby Eng, Academic Projects
Financial Analyst, Northwestern Mutual

Mark Petersen, Character Development
Director, Astellas Pharma

Communications Committee:

Dwayne Hurley, Community Relations (Deceased 2010)
Lifetime North Lawndale Resident
Father of 3 YMEN Students / 2 EVE students

Michael Trout, Executive Director
Founder, Young Men’s Educational Network
Resident of North Lawndale
Father of 3 YMEN Students

Friends of the Board: (Non-Members)

Ken Hooten, Development Committee

Mike Goreman, Executive Service CORPS

John Farr, Executive Service CORPS

Gus Wilhelmy, Capital Campaign

Steve Nelson, Capital Campaign

Recent Updates

YMEN Africa Trip, Spring 2013: “This is the greatest trip of my life…..” Four YMEN High School senior leaders spent 13 days this Spring traveling to Uganda to work with Partners in Mission. During this trip, we had the opportunity to spend time at the Kamwenge Secondary and Vocational School (KSVS) where YMEN has roofed buildings, sponsored students, and brought [...] Read More
Building lifelong networks of support: Sammie has been in the YMEN program for 4 years. He is one of the program’s most dedicated participants. YMEN has offered Sammie many opportunities through business and education programs. Sammie has been on about 90% of the YMEN trips and his favorite was South Dakota. The trips have been beneficial for Sammie because he [...] Read More
The Gimp: Our students have had a chance to learn about image manipulation. Seeing as how we are always in the mood to save money, we use the GNU Image Manipulation Program — otherwise known as the Gimp. For those who aren’t completely up on the Gimp, it’s a free version of Adobe Photoshop-like software. Not Photoshop, [...] Read More