Thanks for reading. Know that your purchase of The Selah Branch will go to support the following nonprofit organizations focused on the betterment of communities of color and opportunities for children and families from traditionally marginalized communities.
Creating Your Success Inc. (CURS)
Creating Your Success, Incorporated (CURS), based in Atlanta Georgia, has a mission to assist youth reach their post high school graduation goals, by facilitating career counseling services and life skills workshops. Through their work they hope to give youth access to information, opportunities, and resources available for them to achieve their career goals. CURS (pronounced: “cures”) strives to inspire, educate, uplift, and provide tools to promote change and growth within each youth participant. You can find out more by looking them up on Facebook or at www.cursinc.org
Atlantic Street Center
Based in Seattle Washington for over 100 years, Atlantic Street Center has provided leadership in educational, school/community relations, case management services, homelessness, gang prevention and intervention, family support and mental health services to vulnerable communities of color in Seattle. The direct service staff provide a variety of academic, youth development, early literacy, mental health, and family support services to more than 3,000 children and their family members each year. For more information visit www.atlanticstreetcenter.org
Georgia State University
In the form of scholarships for African American students. Georgia State University has one of the highest rates of students who are the first in their family to attend college and has a variety of scholarships for students of color studying an array of majors in undergraduate and graduate programs. As a recipient of a scholarship to the Georgia State J. Mack Robinson College of Business as well as the 2013 MLK Torch of Peace Award, it’s this author’s wish to “pay it forward” to support the next generation of graduates. www.gsu.edu