About this Event
Join us as young people, parents, community organizers, leaders, and non-profits leaders for our youth conference based in Nubian Square - Roxbury, MA - the hub of the black community.
The Greatest MINDS is looking for support for its Generations Conference. Our community convenings and programs have been very successful in the past year and look to continue them to bring about more civic change in communities. Many of our convenings have community leaders, youth, and parents in the forefront discussing civic issues on education, voting, health, urban transportation, etc., and how to make it in Boston as a Black person in Boston with limited resources (ie. $8 net worth). Our convenings have been well received by all parties including politicians, activists, youth, and parents. Again, our work centers on the Black Boston-born and raised experience, while other organizations are well-meaning - we get at the root causes of the indigenous Black Bostonians' who have experienced intergenerational poverty.
All of our staff and mentors are born and raised Black Bostonians with a sincere interest in making the city respond to the needs of their families and the communities they grew up in.
Introducing Greatest MINDS.
Check us out as we develop"creative pathways"for high school students forcollege, career, and community service. While Affirmative Action is no more, we equip our Greatest MINDS students to have the best college applications ever by highlighting their college, career, and community aspirations as well how they will be fantastic mentors, volunteers, and participatorson their respective college campuses, and in their neighborhoods, the workforce, and in American society - in general. Join and support Greatest MINDS. www.gminds.org
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GREATEST MINDS VISION & MISSION
Greatest MINDS has a vision for the 21st century where skilled, educated Black professionals will take leadership in their communities and careers by supporting community members and engaging high school students, college students, and young professionals on their road to college and beyond. Greatest MINDS is a non-profit organization that works with BIPOC high school students, college students, and young professionals to become the next generation of civic leaders through mentoring, volunteering, and participating.Greatest MINDS is a Black-led organization that provides mentors from the community itself to college and high school students. Greatest MINDS aims to provide public discourse, citizenship, and educational and career opportunities to all of those interested in creating an inclusive economy and democratic society for all. More info at www.gminds.org
BACKGROUND:
Greatest MINDS was founded by Black Bostonians and has a full board of directors and staff who are from Boston's Black communities. Our work centers on the Black Boston-born and raised experience, while other organizations are well-meaning and often founded by foundations, national in scope, and others where good-intentioned white people are at the helm of leadership, Greatest MINDS gets at the "root causes" of the generations of Black Bostonians who have experienced racism, discrimination, and intergenerational poverty firsthand. We are all "proximate" leaders. "Being a proximate leader is about much more than being exposed to or studying a group of people and its struggles to overcome adversity. It’s about actually being a part of that group or being meaningfully guided by that group’s input, ideas, agendas, and assets." All of our programs are led by Black Bostonians with experience in community and relationship building directly with the Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan neighborhoods. We garner the fact that our neighborhoods are not full of deficits, but full of resources - and push for our young people and community to see otherwise by building authentic relationships with educators, entrepreneurs, activists, artists, young professionals, and residents.
FOR MORE INFORMATION - Contact:
George (Chip) Greenidge, Jr. is the Founder and Executive Director of the Greatest MINDS Network. Cell Phone: 857.312.6340.
Email: [email protected]
Check us out at www.gminds.org.
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