As part of our campaign, I've enjoyed hosting 11 days of conversations with youth, alumni, staff, volunteers, and board members to share what it is to be from the Bronx and part of the South Bronx United community. To listen, just search South Bronx United on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or most podcast platforms, or listen on the web at: southbronxunited.org/powerof11-podcast
Welcome to Andrew and Steph's #PowerOf11 Page
Andrew And Steph So
Andrew and Steph So
It's been 15 years since we started South Bronx United (SBU) as a nonprofit youth development organization with a mission of using soccer as a tool to uplift youth and families in the community. Every year there is more exciting news to share around our growth and impact. Every year this growth and impact has been made possible with the support of you, our friends and family and the community that South Bronx United has built in New York City and beyond.
So far in 2024 we have hit more milestones:
We opened the Clubhouse Café, as the neighborhood's only coffee shop and a space for youth in our workforce development program to gain paid employment and on-the-job training. The program helps participants build job skills and cultivate a potential career through weekly workshops as part of a 10-15 member six-month cohort. This new program has been made particularly important by the high percentage of Bronx youth who end up out of school and underemployed.
We also received our first-ever seven-figure grant, thanks to the Yield Giving fund of MacKenzie Scott (Bezos). Being selected out of a pool of nearly 7,000 eligible organizations has a huge validation for our work and allows us to build more financial stability for the future, implement our strategic plan goals, invest in our most crucial asset--our staff, and amplify the support of any donor who comes in.
And this program year we will have reached more than 1,700 children and young adults through all of our programs, including about 200 of whom receive comprehensive high school and college prep support, social-emotional learning, academic interventions through programming that averages to 10 hours per week during the school year includes a five-week full day summer program. The SBU Academy continues to maintain a 100% high school graduation rate, 94% college matriculation rate, and college-readiness rates that are three-times the rate of their peers.
This all comes on the heels of us opening the SBU Clubhouse in 2022--a 3,000 square foot programming space for youth with a classroom and mini-field--and receiving the Laureus Sport for Good Award in Berlin, Germany in 2020.
The need is still present as much as ever, with an ongoing influx of recently arrived migrant youth, enormously high rates of out of work and out of school youth, and a poverty rate higher than anywhere else in the country.
South Bronx United's impact is significant, and we hope you find this mission dear to you, too. Whether you've supported our campaign many times, or this is the first, we hope you will make a donation to support the campaign and help us reach our goal! We appreciate support in any amount! Together we can make a difference!
So far in 2024 we have hit more milestones:
We opened the Clubhouse Café, as the neighborhood's only coffee shop and a space for youth in our workforce development program to gain paid employment and on-the-job training. The program helps participants build job skills and cultivate a potential career through weekly workshops as part of a 10-15 member six-month cohort. This new program has been made particularly important by the high percentage of Bronx youth who end up out of school and underemployed.
We also received our first-ever seven-figure grant, thanks to the Yield Giving fund of MacKenzie Scott (Bezos). Being selected out of a pool of nearly 7,000 eligible organizations has a huge validation for our work and allows us to build more financial stability for the future, implement our strategic plan goals, invest in our most crucial asset--our staff, and amplify the support of any donor who comes in.
And this program year we will have reached more than 1,700 children and young adults through all of our programs, including about 200 of whom receive comprehensive high school and college prep support, social-emotional learning, academic interventions through programming that averages to 10 hours per week during the school year includes a five-week full day summer program. The SBU Academy continues to maintain a 100% high school graduation rate, 94% college matriculation rate, and college-readiness rates that are three-times the rate of their peers.
This all comes on the heels of us opening the SBU Clubhouse in 2022--a 3,000 square foot programming space for youth with a classroom and mini-field--and receiving the Laureus Sport for Good Award in Berlin, Germany in 2020.
The need is still present as much as ever, with an ongoing influx of recently arrived migrant youth, enormously high rates of out of work and out of school youth, and a poverty rate higher than anywhere else in the country.
South Bronx United's impact is significant, and we hope you find this mission dear to you, too. Whether you've supported our campaign many times, or this is the first, we hope you will make a donation to support the campaign and help us reach our goal! We appreciate support in any amount! Together we can make a difference!
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Nobska Point, Wareham, MA (2024)
The Clubhouse Café
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