Projects & Initiatives

No More Dirty
Community Projects & Outreach Initiatives

Our work is focused on giving youth and young adults the tools needed to improve their quality of life and opportunities for education, financial sustainability, generational wealth and legacy.

CampSMART

We offer a set of full-day interdisciplinary youth enrichment camps held throughout the year, especially during the summer and school breaks. Our Staff consists of PHD, MA and QEP Certified educators & instructors from local higher learning institutions (Oakwood University, AAMU, UAH, Calhoun, etc.) along with support from business professionals, engineers, retired teachers and interns.

The skills mastered in CampSMART align with the required academic core studies: creativity, scientific research, robotics, critical thinking and conflict resolution through activities, chess and physical fitness, wellness and nutrition. The camps are designed to provide accuracy, excellence & critical thinking skills in the following areas: Creative Writing; Communication; Performing Arts; Business Leadership; Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (S.T.E.A.M.); Rockets, Robotics and Research; and Film, Music and Media Production.

Creative Camp
Two Weeks

Creative writing, communication, and art skills are gained while participates publish a book & visit Gee's Bend, Alabama, & the Botanical Garden.

$400 per child

Film & Media Production
Two Weeks

Learn math-media skills, along with audio/video editing & production;, and, graphic/visual art design and animation.

$400 per child

Rockets & Robotics
Two Weeks

Provides hands-on S.T.E.A.M. projects, opportunities that will equip youth for the growing demands of our future workforce.

$400 per child

Business Leadership
Two Weeks

Equips youth with strategic thinking developmental and professional skills with a focus on entrepreneurship.

$225 per child

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Annual Sponsorship Goal

$25,000 - $30,000

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Project Sponsors help us provide up to 40 partial or full scholarships.

The Least of These

Targeted at individuals 19 and older, this community-based educational and economic initiative that focuses on personal development through community engagement, employment education, job training, and job referrals, while improving basic soft, life, communication & accountability skills needed to enter the workforce and employment markets.

Every Day is A Chance to Start Over

All of participants, regardless of their life history, are welcomed into a safe and non-judgmental space where they gain access to basic life and professional skills, workshops and support groups.

We are intentional in our mission to help our participants not only live the best version of their lives, but more importantly to help them to discover & identify their life's true purpose. From that point forward, we walk with them as they journey out into the world as truly amazing human beings who thrive economically in the workforce as contributing citizens in the local community and society.

Laying the Roadmap to Success

To help our participants begin their lives anew, together we create an action plan for success.

We assist them with locating viable housing options and help them gain a good understanding of the necessary steps to take for applying and moving forward with the processes. We also provide them with the proper tools needed to build and re-establish positive relationships within their families.

We do this important work to help participants rebuild family & home-life stability so that they may achieve self-sufficiency.

Taking Life in A New Direction

Participants learn how to build and maintain long-lasting professional relations that warrant workforce collaborations with various employers, small businesses, agencies and community developers.

We recommend job-training & certification programs and share other vital resources and references to equip participants for careers in today's workforce. Our workforce referrals and collaborations expose participants to sustainable employment opportunities which increases their chances of becoming thriving & productive citizens.

Annual Sponsorship Goal

$25,000 - $50,000

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The Greatness Project

This is a unique interdisciplinary character development initiative that helps early adolescents & transitional youth between the ages of 9 and 18 who may have been negatively impacted by an interruption in family life, brokenness, violation or other unforeseeable happenings. It is a pioneering initiative aimed at reshaping trajectories, instilling positive values, and fostering personal growth among youth and teens.

The Greatness Project's creative year-round curriculum is culturally sensitive, and it's steeped in evidence-proven strategies and research-based techniques and solutions to transform lives for the better. Our comprehensive curriculum addresses the critical needs of adolescents transitioning from foster care, facing academic struggles, or dealing with past criminal or mental health challenges. It's designed to help participants embrace their best self, discover their purpose from earlier ages so they are given a "step-up" advantage, ultimately growing up to be healthy, productive, economically stable citizens who add value to themselves and their community in today's and tomorrow's society.

We partner, consult, and collaborate with youth professional providers, school administrators, teachers, educators, school officers, law enforcement and assigned social workers to identify the challenges that needed to be incorporated and included in the developmental aspect.

Uplifting Youth One Step at a Time

We understand how greatly community and cultural influences impacts today's youth. That's why we are deeply committed to transforming the lives of adolescents and teens navigating the complexities of the juvenile justice system. Our character development “Greatness” initiative is very intentional about addressing the most challenging internal, social and mental battles that young people face while coping with impoverishment, cultural relatability and identity crisis, self-awareness and self-appreciation anxiety and loss. We offer mentorship through team-building exercises and role model the principles of what it means to have personal etiquette, a sense of value, and tolerance & respect for all persons positions of authority.

Growing Inner & Outer "Greatness"

Our strategies encourage self-worth, proper etiquettes, mental focus, self-discipline, appropriate conflict resolution, academic excellence, positive mentorship, life application, good health, employability, economic opportunities, entrepreneurship and good citizenship practices.

Participants get a dedicated time & space to explore the universal principles, philosophies and systems that challenge them to think critically and envision themselves in a positive light while instilling the importance of self-respect, self-worth, self-discipline & maintaining healthy lifestyle practices such as creating nutritious eating habits.

We Pour Great In to Get Great Out

During the eight-week sessions, we meet twice a week for 60-120 minutes. Each session involves interactive lessons with a questionnaire to gauge the participant's understanding and comprehension of discussed content. Sessions conclude with a group activity; food, snacks, and drinks are also included, along with:

Interdisciplinary activities and/or fitness (total body, strengthening and conditioning classes, indoor cycling, workouts, etc.) with bottled water.
Urban mentorship and state-of-the-arts leadership class which focuses its attention on professionalism, life application, technical skill set, good communication, self-worth and value, self-sufficiency, social responsibility, media production, citizenship and becoming successful and creative entrepreneurs and influencers.
A fieldtrip, community activity, or group event to build team ethics such as movie nights for families, health and wellness workshops, game nights, smoke-free classes, etc.

Annual Sponsorship Goal

$50,000 - $100,000

Support this Initiative!

Project Sponsors help us provide up to 40 partial or full scholarships.

Urbanomic Development

An economic initiative that supports entrepreneurs & urban business owners and encourages financial reinvestment into black & brown businesses for the purposes of reclaiming, redeveloping, and revitalizing declining black neighborhoods.

uplifts the black & brown community members and educates them on the importance of redistributing funds into their community while promoting financial inclusion among the local entrepreneurs, workers, consumers, and residents.

Self-Sustaining Citizens

Many of the people that we work with come from long lines of generational poverty and have been subjected to subsidized dependency which has negatively affected their relationship with money.

We offer coaching solutions that helps our clients to realize that there is a correlation between how they think and feel about money which will impact how and where they spend their money. From there, our financial interventions helps them to transform their relationships with money so that they may become financially independent and self-sustaining.

Baptizing Your Bucks & Bills

Our clients learn smart financial habits like budgeting and money management skills needed for building their own version of wealth.

We teach not only the impact of smart spending, but our economic empowerment strategy highlights the power of taking control of one's own personal finances. Whether its managing or reducing their debt, becoming a homeowner or simply spending money without feeling guilty, we want our clients to reach their personal financial well-being goals with a sense of peace and freedom.

Black Dollars in Black Communities

We raise awareness on wealth equity and address financial challenges that our Black and Brown communities face, such as the lack of money re-circulating into those communities.

We share financial literacy resources geared towards helping our clients learn how to intentionally spend their hard-earned money and we make referrals within our partners database for general consumerism, banking, savings accumulation & investing support.

We seek to reduce the racial wealth gap that has prevented Black and Brown citizens from building, securing & maintaining wealth.

Annual Sponsorship Goal

$25,000 - $50,000

Support this Initiative!

Project Sponsors help us provide up to 40 partial or full scholarships.

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