FARMINGDALE - Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc. announces promotions and new hires.

Maureen Duggan has been promoted to JMG director of corporate communications. Duggan has been with JMG since October of 2004 as director of development. Duggan's experience includes marketing and public service work in print, online and at Maine public and commercial television stations.

Dave Perron has been promoted to JMG Manager of Development. Perron joined JMG in 1998 as a specialist in the classroom. Perron has been instrumental in developing JMG's middle school program, Project Reach, and was most recently the manager of the state's 15 Project Reach sites.

Rob Schulz has been promoted to field manager of JMG's high school programs in the southern Maine region. Schultz was most recently heading up JMG's homeless program in Lewiston. He has been employed as an assistant manager at Geiger, the national sales manager at American Falcon Corp., and has been a long-term substitute teacher in Lewiston schools.

In the JMG high school program, Darren Carter, a former JMG student from Leavitt Area High School, will now be a JMG specialist at Livermore Falls High School. Carter has been a substitute teacher at Edward Little High School, where he also completed his student teaching.

For the JMG middle school program - Project Reach - Matthew Mitchell, a University of Maine, Farmington, graduate, will be the new Project Reach specialist at Sabattus Central School. Since 2004 Mitchell has worked at the Kieve Leadership Decisions Institute in Nobleboro.

Jobs for Maine's Graduates was established in 1993 by the Maine Legislature. JMG is currently serving approximately 2,500 students in more than 50 school-based sites statewide.