Mentoring Map

This program seeks to encourage and mold young men during their personal development to head down a path to a bright future with educational persistence, intellectual development, and positive self-concepts. It is a male-hood-to-manhood transition program. The male candidates are called Beaux.

The young men are taught that they were born males, not men, and they will become men when they learn the art and science of manhood. Workshops are given throughout the year to enhance leadership through training in conflict resolution, public speaking, entrepreneurship, reading assignments, and other life skills. One of the program’s goals is to promote and provide opportunities for young men from disadvantaged circumstances and young men from non-disadvantaged circumstances to interact while performing community service projects, discussing literature, and other activities during the ‘rites of passage.

Big Homie Lil Homie is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization mentoring program that provides guidance and mentors at-risk youth who come from single-parent homes. The organization caters to young males aged 6-16 within the Greater Columbia (SC) Area. The organization is devoted to shaping and molding youth into great men in society. Big Homie Lil Homie organizes male discussions, outings, and educational assistance devoted to guiding and leading youth in a positive light.

Black Girls for Liberation Collective is a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing Black girls. Grounded in an ethic of care and acceptance of our ways of being, BGFL prioritizes cultivating co-created spaces of joy, healing, and liberation with and for Black girls. We are committed to co-creating environments that center and amplify the voices of Black adolescent girls. Our co-creation of spaces with and for Black girls prioritizes their cultivation toward self-actualization. We employ the term collective to emphasize that the efforts of this space are communal.

BOOST aims to create a pipeline that attracts, engages, supports, and retains underrepresented minority (URM) students in the sciences throughout their pre-collegiate education. We do this by exposing these students and their families to new people, places, and experiences that can open new worlds for them.

Our goals are to:

• Improve the science performance of URM students (particularly African Americans, Native Americans, and Latina/o Americans), female students, and students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds;
• Upgrade and expand the content of the pre-college science curriculum; and
• Increase the number of URM, female, and economically disadvantaged students prepared for professional education in STEM.

The At Promise Academy seeks to address the ongoing challenges young African American male students face in “at-risk communities” by ensuring that students have the well-rounded support and robust set of services they need to excel in their academics and become “At Promise” instead of “At Risk. Our program has Certified Teachers to tutor in the subjects of Math, Language Arts, and Science. We are seeking African American male students in the sixth grade to start our academy.

At Digital Brilliance Hour, our mission is to empower Black and Latino youth with hands-on STEEAM education- Science, Technology, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Arts, and Mathematics.