1. Educate individuals and institutions alike through life experience and formal instruction and raise awareness about issues in the inner cities, particularly issues facing at risk youth.
   » Programs: Designed to educate through consultations, seminars, and workshops as well as by producing original literature and research, our programs seek to touch the heart, inspire the mind, and encourage both toward action. Our programs and educational resources are available to everyone, including businesses, churches, law enforcement, schools, social agencies, and other institutions.

2. Connect individuals and institutions with existing community action networks and social service partnerships to provide access to resources already available to more effectively work collaboratively in addressing local issues.
   » Programs: Connect individuals and various industries (businesses, churches, mission groups, educational institutions, law enforcement, nonprofits, social agencies) through networking.

3. Create new, sustainable opportunities for individuals and institutions to get more actively involved in their community while helping existing institutions identify, create, and incorporate urban and youth programs into their larger operations.
   » Programs: Create new programs crafted to meet the needs of local communities. Seek to emphasize the importance of targeted urban and youth programs and help local institutions create and incorporate them into their existing programs. Provide guidance and vision to create a greater awareness toward urban and youth challenges. Fund opportunities and programs for increasing volunteerism.

4. Empower communities and individuals to break the cycle of dependency and lead more fulfilled lives by providing access to opportunities regardless of race, class, gender, and age.
   » Programs: Empower both youth and experienced partners by cultivating inter-generational mentoring, career shadowing, community-business partnerships, and drawing successful speakers to inspire and motivate young people toward higher heights of intellectual curiosity, deepened morality, and civic sensitivity.

Proposed Programs:

1. Businesses:
   » Create internships for local residents and youth to help them develop a trade.
   » Host career days and job training workshops. In return, youth will gain experience and potential employment as well as potential credit towards their school requirements and extra curricular activities. Businesses will be helped in having a greater connection with the community, and thus potentially become more willing to support the community through scholarships and other various forms.

2. Churches:
   » Establish networks for churches and youth pastors in the community to share resources and work collaboratively in joint events in the community.
   » Establish programs to teach and provide ways for churches and its members to get more involved in the community.
   » Establish programs for churches to adopt schools and provide them with volunteers and other available resources.
   » Establish programs for churches to join forces to adopt troubled youth in the community, to counsel and mentor them thus creating an alternative to traditional methods of instruction.
   » Establish joint leadership youth programs for students in the churches to get involved in learning to work alongside each other to better serve their church and their community.
   » Help churches set up neighborhood youth ministries within the neighborhood and its institutions, ex. schools, prisons, detention centers, etc.
   » Coach churches in developing their youth ministry program and incorporating it into the larger church programs.

3. Educational Institutions:
   » Partner with local schools to provide resources for them, in terms of academics, athletics, volunteers, etc.
   » Network them with the right resources to build bridges between the institutions in the local and larger communities so that they can expand their resources and network base.
   » Establish programs to provide volunteers thus injecting social capital, in terms of people with certain skills they may need.

4. Law Enforcement Agencies:
   » Create more trust between the law enforcement and inner city residents and youth by creating opportunities for dialogue such as at town hall meetings, school assemblies, church-planning meetings, community safety seminars, and Q&A sessions.
   » Establish a network with churches within a community to work alongside the police where alternative remedial programs supervised by church-state partnerships can substitute for juvenile correctional facilities.