Minority business owners answer Urban Family Council's invitation to help mentor urban youth.

On Friday, August 14, ten of the area’s largest minority-owned business owners responded to Urban Family Council’s invitation to meet for lunch at our offices at Parkside Ave. Also attending was a representative of Philadelphia School District’s Interfaith Social Change Movement. Urban Family Council’s purpose in calling this meeting was to forge a partnership with the minority businesses and the School District to cooperate in fulfilling one of the School District’s 5 year strategic plan objectives, under the direction of Supt. Arlene Ackerman, to have business people going into the District’s classrooms.

These business people will be speaking to the children and mentoring them with a view to cutting the drop-out rate and widening their horizons in the following ways:

1. Increase their desire and enthusiasm to succeed by learning, particularly Reading and Math
2. Discover their own interests and gifts
3. Transform their gifts into successful careers

Urban Family Council will assist in this effort with our own Building Healthy Families program – emphasizing integrity, self discipline, and good citizenship.

We will be keeping our supporters up-to-date on the progress of this exciting program.