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What We Do
Flint Club activities are designed to meet one or more of the following goals:
- Encourage community service and philanthropy
- Provide a platform for intellectual capital to impact our community
- Promote community assets
Dr. Michael Cross Flint Club Service Scholarship
The Dr. Michael Cross Flint Club Service Scholarship is awarded annually to youth across Flint and Genesee County who have demonstrated their commitment to the community by completing at least 100 hours of community service and writing an essay that describes how their service has improved the community and influenced their perception of the city. The scholarship was renamed in 2008 to honor the late Dr. Michael Cross, a former Flint Club member who dedicated his life to service in the Flint community. Our recipients have enriched the Flint area through their service in such ways as assisting with summer camps that provide enrichment activities for at-risk youth. Flint Club holds an annual event to raise funds for the scholarship.
On May 9, 2009 Flint Club hosted their first Dr. Michael Cross Memorial Golf Outing at IMA Brookwood. Our winning team from this outing was from Faithful Companions. Chaz Kornegay was our million dollar hole winner. After the golf outing everyone enjoyed the fundraising dinner. There was delicious food, drinks, raffles, door prizes, a live action and lots of laughs.
Click here to watch video of the Dr. Michael Cross Fundraising Dinner 2008.
Pen Pal Mentors Program
This program provides positive role model and mentoring relationships for upper elementary age students. The program is designed to reinforce good grammar and writing skills through regular, monitored correspondence with adult volunteers. This program is attractive to Flint Club members who live far from the city, but who wish to make a personal contribution to the education of a Flint area student.
We recruit Pen Pal Mentors on a continuous basis. Mentors commit to 1 letter per week and participate in the program by communicating via email, fax or U.S. postal mail. All potential mentors must have a background check conducted by the McDowell Agency. The Agency is under contract with us and specializes in criminal background checks, employee screening and security clearances. For more information, please contact Katrice Horton (katrice@flintclub.org).
In response to the enthusiastic support from the schools and our members, we will continue to offer the Pen Pal Mentoring program. This program not only helps students enhance their vocabulary and grammar skills, but it connects them with positive role models from all over the country. According to mentor William Allen, “I am grateful that Flint Club has created this opportunity for people to give back to the community…”
To sign up for the Pen Pal Mentors program, please download and return the forms below to katrice@flintclub.org or fax back to (810) 233-5556:
Pen Pal Mentors Application
Look Back/Give Back
Global members and former residents have expressed their desire to give back to Flint. Many have gone on to do well elsewhere but credit their foundational years spent in Flint as key to their current success. Flint Club provides a valuable service, both to these former residents and to the community, by creating awareness about charitable organizations doing great work back home and ways global members and former residents can give back.
Homecoming
Flint Club motivates and enables people who no longer live in the area to provide service to the community by partnering with local organizations to coordinate a service component during the homecoming weekend. This activity comprises a new twist on “Flint Club Homecoming” and the monthly Flint Club service activities that have aided such organizations as Habitat for Humanity, Flint Community Schools, Kearsley Park, Riverbank Park, the American Cancer Society, the North End Soup Kitchen, and the Foss Avenue/Summit Neighborhood in the past.
Drive: Flint Area Professionals in Motion
Many cities across the U.S. are establishing talent networks geared toward early to mid-career artists, entrepreneurs, and professionals as a key strategy to combat “brain drain.” Even in Michigan, Flint lags behind such metropolitan areas as Detroit, Ypsilanti, Lansing, and Grand Rapids that have already established networks for these coveted individuals. Flint Club started Drive: Flint Area Professionals in Motion in response to this need. Drive creates synergy among its members by introducing them to each other and to various aspects of the community such as galleries, bars, museums, neighborhoods, historic buildings, parks, etc. Drive members develop a more positive outlook on Flint and surrounding areas and be inspired to become more engaged and active in the community.
To join Drive you can go to the membership tab and fill out our membership form and check the box on the bottom of the form to become a member of Drive.
For more information you can contact carol-anne@flintclub.org.
Professional Development Series
Flint Club hosts a professional development series that calls upon local and non-local experts with ties to the Flint area to share their skills and knowledge with the community. Each development series features a different topic. Contact jason@flintclub.org for more information.
Made in Flint Awards
Flint Club is an ambassador for the Best of Flint. Made in Flint awards are awarded to people, organizations, and businesses that reflect positively on the city. The Made in Flint campaign shows off the diversity and creativity of Flint's people.
A partial listing of past recipients includes:
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Steelheads
Hubert Massey
Brian Willingham
Flint Farmer’s Market
Crim Festival of Races
The 2009 recipients were: Our five Outstanding Pen Pal Mentors-Ladel Lewis, Victoria Leonard, April Miller, Robert Hanson, and Virginia Waugaman.
Discover Flint
Flint Club coordinates a weeklong event in September that encourages people to visit various cultural, recreational, and/or social gems in the Flint area.
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