Excel Leadership & Scholarship Program

05/13/2025

Excited to begin awarding some amazing seniors with college scholarships! This is just one group of Melrose students who will receive an Excel with My Town Miracles award for the fall! Stay tuned for more!

11/11/2024

Had a great visit to Union University with some Melrose Seniors!

06/12/2024

06/12/2024

We are so proud of the newest recipients of our 2024 scholarship awards of the Excel Leadership and scholarship program in partnership with My town Miracles! We have 17 new awards and 12 returning awards given to help fund their college journey. We also had a great service day with MTM and Simmons Bank ! Go Excel Scholars!!
(U of M, UTC, UTK,Xavier, Rhodes,Lemoyne,CBU, John’s Hopkins,MTSU, BHS, Clark Atlanta)

12/20/2023

We had a great day wrapping gifts for My Town Miracles Christmas give ! These are Excel college students giving back some time and energy to bless others in the orange mound community and beyond! Thankful to see these students pushing forward with their dreams. May God guide them!

09/05/2023

I enjoyed walking the 5k with these U of M Excel students Myiesha Sledge and Adanelia Chavez. We may not have been the fastest but we finished and appreciate the work of My Town Miracles!!

06/20/2023

We had a great day serving with My Town Miracles in orange mound! These are just some of the amazing Excel scholars who will be heading off to college this fall. Congratulations to all of those who received an Excel with My Town Scholarship award.

05/16/2023

08/11/2022

Congratulations to our 2022 graduates who have received awards. Here is the list to celebrate with them:
Kimberly Hernandez- Rhodes College
Dontae' Millbrook- Belmont University
Aaliyah Gunn- Xavier University
Autumn Oakley- Handover College
Madison Rhodes-Gould's Academy
Keshona Taylor- Oglethorpe
Mathew Hardeman- Christian Brothers University
Myiesha Sledge- University of Memphis
Sharonda Rayford- University of Memphis
Gannon Moore- Jackson State University
Davion Watson- Tennessee State University
Trinity Burnett- University of Memphis
Ja'Mani Samudio- University of Memphis
Darryl Bailey- Southwest community college
Natasha Wallace- Bethel University

05/20/2022

Congratulations to our 2022 graduates and Excel scholarship recipients . We have also partnered with My Town Miracles and there Be the Miracle scholarship as well! We will post names and schools soon!

01/03/2022

High School seniors from Memphis schools. If you are interested in the Excel Scholarship program go to our website to find the application. Click the programs tab for Excel and download the application due Jan. 20th or reach out to Tracy Anthony for more information [email protected] .

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