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IMPROVING THE LIVES OF BLACK PEOPLE THROUGH
AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION
IMPROVING THE LIVES OF BLACK PEOPLE THROUGH
AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION
| EXECUTIVE VOLUNTEER STAFF Executive Director Stacey F. Johnson Assistant to the Director Jyssica P. Tomlin Secretary Open Treasurer Open |
| Where your money will go in 2010 |
In 2010, we will
begin a true grass
roots effort to reach
those most in need.
We have to go to
them, they cannot
come to us.
begin a true grass
roots effort to reach
those most in need.
We have to go to
them, they cannot
come to us.
This past week, my two sons and I
personally delivered 25 turkeys and
Thanksgiving boxes and what we
experienced was very sad. The people who
need the help the most don't know how it
get it. They need direction and hope.
We will begin a grass roots effort to work
directly with low income apartment
complexes like the ones we visited. These
people just don't know where to go for help.
We have to go to them.
We will provide lifestyle training, mental
health, drug and alcohol counseling, mentor
programs for children and we will assist
single mothers in obtaining financial aid to
return to school.
There are no nationally known programs
that reach out directly to poor African
Americans and you have to go to church in
most cases to get the help from them.
These poor people are our target market,
those who need our help the most and our
most important area of interest.
We look forward to working with families
where they live an play but your continued
support is vital
Ive been able to accomplish many things
over the years while maintaining my full
time job. Through my income, over the
years, I have been able to pay for all small
out of pocket expenses. In 2009, those
expenses were high due to failed fund
raising attempts and I was personally unable
to cover them so for the first time in the
Associations history, we will begin 2010
with a deficit of $3000.
Also for the first time in Association history,
our 2010 budget includes an amount to
cover my salary as I hope to take a leave of
absence from my job. I also have a desire to
begin a Risk Services Corporation where all
the profits go to support the Association.
If you review our 2010 budget, you will see
that my salary is modest and in line with
what I currently make as a claims adjuster.
But as a claims adjuster, approximately 30%
went back to fund the Association. With
100% of my time focused on the
Association, I will be in a better position to
raise more funds more quickly.
This is my life work and I realize this more
so each day. I just wonder where my 10
siblings and I would be if our parents had
not prepared us for life, this recession and
everything I have gone through in my life by
stressing the importance of education as a
tool for success and a necessity as a
minority. I feel the need to do the same for
others. Your generous donation will put me
in a position to do so.
Lastly, as a personal goal, I am happy to say
I will enter graduate school in 2010 to
begin work towards my PHD in Math. As I
grow old, i hope to teach Math to inner city
kids and take the scariness out of it!
personally delivered 25 turkeys and
Thanksgiving boxes and what we
experienced was very sad. The people who
need the help the most don't know how it
get it. They need direction and hope.
We will begin a grass roots effort to work
directly with low income apartment
complexes like the ones we visited. These
people just don't know where to go for help.
We have to go to them.
We will provide lifestyle training, mental
health, drug and alcohol counseling, mentor
programs for children and we will assist
single mothers in obtaining financial aid to
return to school.
There are no nationally known programs
that reach out directly to poor African
Americans and you have to go to church in
most cases to get the help from them.
These poor people are our target market,
those who need our help the most and our
most important area of interest.
We look forward to working with families
where they live an play but your continued
support is vital
Ive been able to accomplish many things
over the years while maintaining my full
time job. Through my income, over the
years, I have been able to pay for all small
out of pocket expenses. In 2009, those
expenses were high due to failed fund
raising attempts and I was personally unable
to cover them so for the first time in the
Associations history, we will begin 2010
with a deficit of $3000.
Also for the first time in Association history,
our 2010 budget includes an amount to
cover my salary as I hope to take a leave of
absence from my job. I also have a desire to
begin a Risk Services Corporation where all
the profits go to support the Association.
If you review our 2010 budget, you will see
that my salary is modest and in line with
what I currently make as a claims adjuster.
But as a claims adjuster, approximately 30%
went back to fund the Association. With
100% of my time focused on the
Association, I will be in a better position to
raise more funds more quickly.
This is my life work and I realize this more
so each day. I just wonder where my 10
siblings and I would be if our parents had
not prepared us for life, this recession and
everything I have gone through in my life by
stressing the importance of education as a
tool for success and a necessity as a
minority. I feel the need to do the same for
others. Your generous donation will put me
in a position to do so.
Lastly, as a personal goal, I am happy to say
I will enter graduate school in 2010 to
begin work towards my PHD in Math. As I
grow old, i hope to teach Math to inner city
kids and take the scariness out of it!
| Education nutrition boys programs |
| Budget 2010 |
| Education |
We will continue in our efforts in helping
school age children to increase the math
grade by one letter grade each year. Due to
massive budget cuts, the schools in the
Sacramento and Natomas Unified School
district were unable to work better with us.
We had no funds to support a physical
location and they had no staff or insurance
to allow us to use the schools. We have
temporarily solved that problem do a
agreement between the Association and
the Club House at Harbor Oak located in
Natomas. This is temporary and may not
work as planned because our clients
cannot get to us.
We will also begin to offer math tutoring
services on line for those with access to
the Internet. All proceeds will go to
supplement the families unable to pay for
tutor services It is our hope to gain funds
through our drive to support the cost of a
physical location in Oak Park and/or Del
Paso Heights.
school age children to increase the math
grade by one letter grade each year. Due to
massive budget cuts, the schools in the
Sacramento and Natomas Unified School
district were unable to work better with us.
We had no funds to support a physical
location and they had no staff or insurance
to allow us to use the schools. We have
temporarily solved that problem do a
agreement between the Association and
the Club House at Harbor Oak located in
Natomas. This is temporary and may not
work as planned because our clients
cannot get to us.
We will also begin to offer math tutoring
services on line for those with access to
the Internet. All proceeds will go to
supplement the families unable to pay for
tutor services It is our hope to gain funds
through our drive to support the cost of a
physical location in Oak Park and/or Del
Paso Heights.
| Nutrition |
We will continue our efforts in bringing
affordable fruits and vegetables to low
income communities. This is also in
line with our economic development
plan to bring businesses into low
income communities. Our AAASM
Community Farmers Market's will be
the first business we introduce. We
spent the past few months beginning
relationships and making partnerships
will local growers and distributors to
supply us with our items at no cost! A
true fund raiser for the Association. We
currently provide a mobile farmers
Market where we deliver to homes
throughout Sacramento.
affordable fruits and vegetables to low
income communities. This is also in
line with our economic development
plan to bring businesses into low
income communities. Our AAASM
Community Farmers Market's will be
the first business we introduce. We
spent the past few months beginning
relationships and making partnerships
will local growers and distributors to
supply us with our items at no cost! A
true fund raiser for the Association. We
currently provide a mobile farmers
Market where we deliver to homes
throughout Sacramento.
| Boys to Men Project - Boys Boys to Men Project - Men |
Our Association has worked for many years now to enlist the services of older black
males to facilitate and run the program. This has been a very difficult task but we
feel that now we have found the solution. There are a group of young men out there
ages 18 to 25, some raised my single mothers, some raised by grandmothers but all of
them have a deep passion to become mentors and leaders and entrepreneurs. Our
organization feels proud to help these young men as they help grow our program.
Also in 2010, we will begin our efforts to gain support for the Boys to Men Project -
Men. This is an in house re-entry program for men newly released from prison.
Information on this program is coming soon to the website.
males to facilitate and run the program. This has been a very difficult task but we
feel that now we have found the solution. There are a group of young men out there
ages 18 to 25, some raised my single mothers, some raised by grandmothers but all of
them have a deep passion to become mentors and leaders and entrepreneurs. Our
organization feels proud to help these young men as they help grow our program.
Also in 2010, we will begin our efforts to gain support for the Boys to Men Project -
Men. This is an in house re-entry program for men newly released from prison.
Information on this program is coming soon to the website.
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| AAASM NEWS |
Current Statistics on the African
American Male
Education
In 2003, The American Council on
Education reported that 25% of the 1.9
million Black men between ages 18 and
24 attended college in that same year.
35% of Black women of the same age
attended college. The graduation rate of
the same year for Black men was the
lowest.
A study performed by The Henry J.
Kaiser Family Foundation published in
2006 reports that in 2004 there were 4.5
million African American males between
the ages of 15 and 29 living in the U. S.,
about 14% of all men of this age group.
Fewer than 8% have graduated from
college to 17% of Whites and 35% of
Asians.
People with more education tend to have
higher incomes yet the Kaiser report
finds that in 2002 African Americans with
the same education as Whites made
less.
The African American Male and the
Criminal Justice System
In 1999, there were 757,000 Black men
in Federal, State or local prisons to the
604,200 enrolled in institutes of higher
learning. There were 25% more men in
prison putting there future on hold than
those working on a productive future.
In 2004, 41% of all inmates were Black
while making up only 14% of the U. S.
population. In this same year, African
American males made up three times
the prison population than Hispanics
and seven times that of Whites.
A black male born in 1991 has a 29%
chance of spending time in prison at
some point in his
life. The figure for white males is 4%,
and for Hispanics, 16%.
American Male
Education
In 2003, The American Council on
Education reported that 25% of the 1.9
million Black men between ages 18 and
24 attended college in that same year.
35% of Black women of the same age
attended college. The graduation rate of
the same year for Black men was the
lowest.
A study performed by The Henry J.
Kaiser Family Foundation published in
2006 reports that in 2004 there were 4.5
million African American males between
the ages of 15 and 29 living in the U. S.,
about 14% of all men of this age group.
Fewer than 8% have graduated from
college to 17% of Whites and 35% of
Asians.
People with more education tend to have
higher incomes yet the Kaiser report
finds that in 2002 African Americans with
the same education as Whites made
less.
The African American Male and the
Criminal Justice System
In 1999, there were 757,000 Black men
in Federal, State or local prisons to the
604,200 enrolled in institutes of higher
learning. There were 25% more men in
prison putting there future on hold than
those working on a productive future.
In 2004, 41% of all inmates were Black
while making up only 14% of the U. S.
population. In this same year, African
American males made up three times
the prison population than Hispanics
and seven times that of Whites.
A black male born in 1991 has a 29%
chance of spending time in prison at
some point in his
life. The figure for white males is 4%,
and for Hispanics, 16%.
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