New Beginnings: A Send-Off for Long Time Volunteer Ann Walker
Like most Building Bridges volunteers, Ann Walker started out as an advocate. A great opportunity to "get your feet wet" within Building Bridges, an advocate is an adult that is paired with a student to [...]
Celebrating the Class of 2023
From Left to Right: Lily Stetson, Eric Gomez, Angela Mora, Genesis Rivera, Jamal Cannon, Anthony Torres, Taner Dudley, and Emmanuel Rostro-Gonzalez Graduations are times to think big and dream bright—to [...]
Building Bridges Theatre Takeover: The Music Man
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a [...]
Cross in the Woods
Junior Alondra Pedroza has received an Honorable Mention from Scholastic Art Awards for her charcoal drawing piece, Cross in the Woods. It will be featured as the cover of Notre Dame Preparatory's 2023-2024 [...]
From Pontiac, MI to Rome, Italy
Eric (front row middle, 5th from the left) and Emmanuel (back row middle, 5th from the left) smile with their bandmates after marching in the New Year's Day Parade in Rome, Italy. [...]
Building Bridges Alumni: 2023 Holiday Mixer
Building Bridges has always been focused on the support of high schoolers, but one of our new priorities is establishing and maintaining relationships with our approximately 100 alumni. We hosted [...]
Creating Opportunites for Connections
Current freshmen students with their Class Captains--the liaisons between advocates and students--Steve and Ann Bartoli, catching up before heading to play Giant Jenga and Giant Connect 4. Advocates and students getting to know each [...]
1st Annual College Tour
One of the biggest challenges for many of the families of our current students is taking off time to travel for college visits. For many years we have wanted to support [...]
Welcome Building Bridges Class of 2026
Alex Apolonio Middle School: Walton Charter Academy Activities: Soccer!! Soccer!! Soccer!! Career Goals: Computer or Mechanical Engineer (or something related to soccer) What He Likes About NDP: "I like how people are nice and [...]
From Caddying to a Full Scholarship: Former Evans Scholar Jack Lintol Builds a Bridge for Future Evans Scholar Hopefuls
A hard worker since childhood, Jack Lintol was already working multiple jobs by age 12: a paper route, cutting grass, raking leaves, and helping elderly citizens. His favorite job, however, was hunting golf balls at [...]
Celebrating the Class of 2022
Graduations are times to think big and dream bright—to summon positivity regarding an idealistic vision for the future—but the last four years were so different that they often didn’t feel like school at all. As [...]
NDP Website Publishes Feature on Accomplished BB Scholar
The Notre Dame Prep official website, ndpma.org, recently published an article in it's news section on one of our senior scholarship recipients, and we couldn't be prouder! David Mikkola is a senior at NDP in [...]
Video: Paul Housey, finalist for 2017 Invest in Others Catalyst Award
Paul Housey was a finalist for the Invest in Others Catalyst Award for his charitable work with Building Bridges. The Invest in Others Awards is a program that recognizes the charitable work of financial advisors [...]
‘100 Businesses’ Raises $36k for Building Bridges
Building Bridges has been presented with a generous donation of $36,000 from the organization, 100 Businesses Who Care, a volunteer organization of 100 top decision-makers from southeast Michigan who donate to make an impact on the [...]