Category Archives: Front Office

March 16, 2012 This week our Executive Director, Antonio Scott, spoke to a group of 7th and 8th graders at Tilden Middle School in Rockville, MD.  These students participate in a minority scholars after-school program.  The main purpose of this visit by our ED was to speak about and turn these students onto careers in [...]

 November 23, 2011  Yesterday our organization was able to be a part of the Thanksgiving Drive held by the  Leadership for Life Foundation.  Leadership For Life is the Foundation of Washington Redskins  Safety LaRon Landry.  The foundation partners with Sasha Bruce Youthwork and Whole Foods  Market to provide 500 turkeys and dinner items to residents [...]

 The Press Box at stadiums across the country remains heavily dominated by white males.  Minority  persons make up 12% of all sports columnist nationally, 13% of all sports reporters nationally, and  only 6% of all editors nationally.  This raises the question: In today’s society of “Twitter and  Facebook” fame, why aren’t more minority youth interested [...]

I am so glad that I have a lot of desire and drive in my heart.  More importantly, I am thankful for some of the people who remind me of that when I tend to forget sometimes.  Over the years there have been several moments were I thought I was not making any difference or reaching the [...]

In today’s society there is a heavy usage and dependence on social media.  The young people of today have adapted to using Social Media just as much and in some cases, more proficiently than adults.  This is why we have chosen to utilize social media outlets to display the images of S.M.A.R.T., as well as [...]

Over the years we have had some great partnerships with organizations and schools in the District of Columbia, such as the Boys and Girls Club FBR Branch (Ward 8), Howard Road Academy Public Charter School (Ward 8), J.C. Nalle Elementary School (Ward 7), 21st Century Learning, and the National Center for Children and Families.  We [...]

Over the years we have developed a unique curriculum for our after-school and summer camp programs.  What makes our curriculum and programs unique from similar non-profit organizations is how we fuse education, sports, community involvement, and life skills development for young people into each activity that we do.  While there are several organizations that do [...]

The Executive Director’s Message……When I first started working with youth in after-school and summer camp programs in 2004, I would have never guessed in a million years that I would be doing something in that capacity. It “must have been written” because over the next seven years there would be numerous events and experiences that [...]