Preparing Young Men for College Through Leadership DevelopmentWelcome to the inaugural edition of the YBM Leadership Alliance Newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to highlight our events, activities, plans, and goals. As we move forward, we solicit your thoughts, prayers, and financial support in our quest to develop our future leaders. Donations to support these efforts can be made at www.ybmleadership.com.

Creating A New RealityYBM

Leadership Alliance

NewsletterINAUGURAL EDITION FEB 2015

2014 ACTIVITIES

YBMLEADERS

CONFERENCE

Leadership Development

GE African American Forum Symposium

Grant from Wells Fargo

GE Job FairLeadership Luncheon with Joel Ford

LEADERSHIP

Speakers in 2014 included:

Leadership Luncheon with Manny Ohonme

We had an active year of these luncheons. These events are designed to create personal interaction with our YBM Ambassadors and business leaders. Please contact us if you would be interested in participating.

Manny Ohonme – Samaritan’s Feet CEO

Patrick Graham – Urban League CEO

Senator Joel Ford

Raki McGregor – Business Executive

Ken Currence – Retired Business Executive

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The young men of YBM participated with the Urban Ministry to make 800 sandwiches to feed the homeless. As YBM CEO, John Martin stated, “this was an opportunity to learn about servant leadership with a hands-on, real world project.”

Service

Allen Anderson

Justin Elliott

Harold Lowe David Nnadi washing feet

YBM had the wonderful opportunity to send three team leaders and seven Ambassadors to the Republic of Haiti for four days. Through the coordinating efforts of many including Tony Reed, they were able to visit a summer camp

for girls, an orphanage, a maternity center, and a school. The group also, with loving compassion, washed the feet of the children and were able

to provide shoes for 250 children. Our team was greatly moved by the spirit of the children and adults in spite of very difficult living conditions.

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YBM Scholars Day

The second annual YBM Scholars Day was held at Dresslers Restaurant. Twenty-two young leaders were on hand to announce acceptance into the colleges of their choice. Quality institutions on this list included: Duke, Morehouse, Winston-Salem State, NC State, and Virginia Tech. Over 100 proud parents and friends attended this event. Over $10,000 in scholarships were awarded to the students via funds raised during the annual 2014 YBM Golf Open.

College Prep

COLLEGE TOURS

DUKE University

UNC

Top 100 - Brothers on the covers

Top 100 - Timmons

Top 100 - LaMarcus and familyTop 100 Ceremony

The Top 100 Recognition Ceremony was held at Rocky River High School. The high achieving hon-orees were lauded for their academic achieve-ment, leadership abilities, and community service. Friends and family in at-tendance were very ap-preciative of seeing their young men honored in such a positive manner.

The Top 100

COMMON at

the Gantt Youth Forum

Hip Hop Artist Common was in Charlotte for a meet and greet and thirteen of our young men were in attendance for this event at the Harvey B. Gantt Center. Common answered questions presented by the attendees. His primary message was to not let yourself be identified by anyone else’s perception. He also said, “be honest and true to yourself and develop and maintain a positive self belief.”

The evening was capped off with a stirring performance from the Tony and Grammy award winning songstress, Jennifer Holliday.

John Martin, CEO and Ken Currence Master of Ceremony.

Evening of Excellence Gala

The Annual YBM Gala was held on November 8th at Mercedes Benz of South Charlotte. Over 200 guests were in attendance at this fabulous affair. Ladies were strolling in their shimmering outfits and the well suited gentlemen were strutting their stuff.

KUDOS

202 Thompson CenterWinston-Salem, NC 27110

336-750-3330 (phone) 336-750-3332 (fax)Office of the Registrar

Notification of Dean’s ListJanuary 9, 2015 Dear Malik Black, In recognition of your superior academic performance, I am pleased to inform you that you have been placed on the Winston-Salem State University Dean’s List for fall 2014. Eligibility to be named on the Dean’s List at the end of each semester shall be based on status as a full-time student (12 SH and above). Dean’s List honors are awarded only to those students who earn a scholastic grade point average of 3.0 or higher in 12 or more credit hours of graded coursework with WSSU in an academic semester, with no grade below C and no incomplete (I) grades on the report. Congratulations on your achievement…and keep up the good work! Respectfully,

University Registrar

2013 Top 100 Student makes WSSU Dean’s List

Leadership College Fair

Fellowship at Friendship

Social - Go Cart Racing

YBM CELEBRATES NATIONAL MENTOR MONTH

by hosting Mentoring Mondays at Piedmont Middle School

YBM AMBASSADORSSPEAK OUT

in schools to students about: leadership, finding themselves, and preparing for future success

The YBM Leadership Academy develops young men into strong leaders who will have a positive impact within their schools and communities. YBM aims to create a positive reality where young black men are valued and sought out as 21st century leaders.

YBM leadership Alliance

PRESENTS

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For more info EMAIL Harold at:

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February 11, 20156:00 p.m.

Johnson C. Smith UniversityBIDDLE HALL

IN PARTICIPATION WITH MULTICULTURAL STUDENT AFFAIRS

UPCOMING EVENTS

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A fundraiser to provide college scholarships and college readiness programming for young scholars

YBM Leadership

Alliance is a non-profit 501c3

focused on youth

leadership development Wednesday

March 18, 20157:00pm - 9:30pm

Dave and Busters

Without a doubt, 2014 was an awesome year for YBM Leadership Alliance! We hosted more than 30 events, workshops, and service trips. We extended our leadership impact to the global community with our first international service trip to Haiti. We awarded $10,000 in scholarships to some very deserving young black men. We had an excellent Gala fundraising event featuring Tony and

Grammy award-winning singer, Jennifer Holliday.

While 2014 was stellar, we are not resting on our laurels. We are gearing up for massive and unparalleled success this year. To that end, we have declared 2015 “The Year of Success” for YBM.

In 2015, we are implementing a new initiative called “Project Success.” This is a 12-

month positive venture focused on highlighting successful black males. The objective of the YBM Project Success is to change the dialog, media focus, general thinking, and community investment profile from the generally accepted deficiency-based model, (focused on the negative), to the preferred asset-based model, (focused on the positive). This paradigm shift to an asset-based model will help increase the positive and realistic view of black males as assets. We seek to eliminate the stereotypical view of black makes as “at risk” problems that must be addressed, corrected, or eliminated. Our ultimate goal is to develop and inspire a generation of young leaders who will have a positive impact on our community.

In keeping with the Project Success Initiative, the YBM Leadership Alliance events for 2015 will focus on

YBM Declares 2015 “The Year of Success”

John Martin

highlighting, accelerating and replicating success we identify that already exists. We will show the tremendous amount of positive, progressive and successful activity in our community and extend its effect.

YBM Leadership Alliance commits to a yearlong investment of effort, ideas, communication, celebration and more. Each component is designed to highlight excellence and to make the best, better.

A few of the 2015 Project Success initiatives are:

● CelebratingBlackHistoryMonth:28

Success Leaders – February

● CelebrationofSuccessLeaders–

March 15

● The“MinorityMaleSuccessSummit”

– March 28

● The“TopYoungBlackMenofCharlotte”

Recognition Ceremony – April 26

● YBMScholarsDay–May 31

● The“EveningofExcellence”Gala–

November 14

SOCIAL MEDIAFind us online at www.ybmleadership.com

For questions and event

information contact:

Ken Currence at

currenoct@carolina.rr.com