Your City Should Join 108 Cities in Mentoring Young Black Men and Boys

Your City Should Join 108 Cities that Are Mentoring Young Black Men and Boys During January and February 2012 Call 773.285.9600 today and join the movement to help build and encourage strong, positive Black men across America and the world. Sometimes, you only get one chance to change the world.  Mentoring young Black men and boys might be that chance. Join the Black Male Achievement Mentoring Initiative in changing the world.      Ideas for Mentoring Young Black Men and Boys 1) Mentor at a school or community center 2) Take A Young Black Male to Worship on February 26, 2012 - Click Here To Join This Effort 3) Coach a sports team 4) Take a trip to a museum, library or cultural center with one or a group of young Black males 5) Read The New Jim Crow or another book with a group of young Black men 6) Real Men Read to pre-school through 3rd-grade black boys 7) Take one or a group of young Black males to see Red Tails 8) Have dinner with one or a group of young Black males 9) Have a discussion about respecting women and girls with one or a group of young Black males  10) Teach young Black males about entrepreneurship and personal finance 11) Visit and mentor young Black men in correctional and detention centers 12) Create all male Saturday Learning and Tutoring Academies for young Black men and boys 13) Encourage young Black men and boys who are living as drug dealers, gangsters, thugs and hustlers to seek education and to help rebuild their communities 14) Build institutions and structures that support and mentor young Black men and boys 15) Encourage young Black men and boys towards healthy living, exercise and good nutrition 16) Teach young Black men and boys to be good fathers and good husbands and good neighbors -------------------------------------------------------------------------   If you have had any doubts about the value and importance of responsible fatherhood or mentoring, click here to have them removed!!!   To become one of the the Servant Leaders in your city planning and directing this effort, please call 773.285.9600. We will provide you with an organizing kit that will help you step-by-step to create, manage or support an outstanding mentoring program in your city.  We will also provide technical assistance and ongoing support. Schools, faith-based organizations, fraternities, Masonic organizations, veterans associations, community-based organizations, affinity organizations, military service personnel, social service agencies, companies and corporations will participate in this effort.  Most mentoring events will occur on January 31, 2012.  The last event will occur on February 29, 2012.  Please see cities that are expected to participate as of January 11, 2012:  Albany, New York Alton, Illinois Atlanta Georgia Aurora, Colorado Baltimore, Maryland Baton Rouge, Louisiana Blandensburg, Maryland Boston, Massachusetts Bowie, Maryland Buffalo, New York Carbondale, Illinois  Chicago, Illinois - South Side Chicago, Illinois - West Side  Chicago, Illinois - South Suburbs Chicago Heights, Illinois Cincinnati, Ohio Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbia, Missouri Columbus, Georgia Dallas, Texas Danbury, Connecticut Danville, Illinois Decatur, Georgia Delray Beach, Florida Detroit, Michigan Denver, Colorado Dolton, Illinois Durham, North Carolina East Chicago, Indiana East Orange, New Jersey Englewood, Colorado Flint, Michigan Flossmoor, Illinois Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fredricksberg, Virginia Gary, Indiana Gilbert, Arizona Griffin, Georgia Hammond, Indiana Hartford, Connecticut Harvey, Illinois Hillside, Illinois Houston, Texas Hyattsville, Maryland Indianapolis, Indiana  Irvington, New Jersey Jackson, Mississippi Kansas City, Missouri Kenesaw, Georgia LaGrange, Georgia Lauderhill, Florida Lenoir, North Carolina Lexington, Kentucky Lithonia, Michigan Los Angeles, California Louisville, Kentucky Macon, Georgia Manassas, Virginia Markham, Illinois Matteson, Illinois Mentor, Ohio Milwaukee, Wisconsin Minneapolis, Minnesota Munster, Indiana  Nashville, Tennessee New Orleans, Louisiana New York City, New York - Manhattan New York City, New York - The Bronx New York City, New York - Brooklyn New York City, New York - Queens New York City, New York - Long Island New York City, New York - Harlem Newark, New Jersey Oakland, California Oak Park, Illinois Omaha, Nebraska Palmdale, California Peoria, Illinois  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Phoenix, Arizona Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Richmond, California Richmond, Virginia Riverdale, Illinois San Bernardino, California San Francisco, California Santan Valley, AZ Seattle, Washington Shelbyville, Indiana  Southaven, Mississippi Spotsylvania County, Virginia St. Louis, Missouri St. Paul, Minnesota St. Petersburg, Florida Tampa, Florida Thomasville, Georgia Toledo, Ohio Tougaloo, Mississippi Tshwane, Botswana, Africa  Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territory, Canada Tuscaloosa, Alabama  University Park, Illinois Upper Marboro, Maryland Vicksburg, Mississippi  Washington, D.C. Waukegan, Illinois White Plains, New York Yazoo City, Mississippi     This event was inspired by the life and life principles of Muhammad Ali (Rumble Young Man, Rumble!).  The Black Male Achievement Movement was born in Louisville, Kentucky in September 2011.  Guidance, support and encouragement for this movement is provided by Open Society Foundations' Campaign for Black Male Achievement.  The National CARES Mentoring Movement and Mentoring U.S.A have signed on as national supporters.  For more information, please call 773.285.9600.   Click Here to listen to amazing stories of mentoring efforts around the country.    Click Here to see the Fathers Incorporated PSA on mentoring.    Click Here to see the Mentoring USA PSA on mentoring.