Organizations Filed Purposes:
WE ARE A COMMUNITY-MOBILIZATION MOVEMENT THAT RECRUITS, TRAINS AND PLACES MENTORS;AND BUILDS PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE WELLNESS AND ACADEMIC SUPPORT FOR BLACK CHILDREN. SINCE 2006, WE HAVE RECRUITED MORE THAN 150,000 VOLUNTEER MENTORS.
Affiliate Development and Mentor Recruitment and Training: Our work is only possible because of our local CARES affiliate leaders, a volunteer army of caring and committed adults who recruit, train and deploy loving mentors. We support and strengthen the leadership capacity of this network through monthly group teleconferences, weekly one-on-one support calls, dedicated staff support and annual all-affiliate training conference. United by our principles and mission, our leaders across 58 U.S. cities effectively recruit adults to serve as mentors and deploy them to schools and youth-support organizations that are in need of Black volunteers to provide one to one mentoring. Cultural competency is embedded in all affiliate activities. In cities with our group mentoring programs, affiliate leaders are critical to engaging community partners to enable wraparound support and provide CARES-trained, loving mentors to serve. Because of our local presence and leadership, National CARES is able to support communities and adults through COMMUNITY WELLNESS AND WEALTH-BUILDING CIRCLES (Community Circles). COMMUNITY CIRCLES provide adults with health and wellness support and best-practices in community and mentor engagement. The COMMUNITY CIRCLES create a pipeline of healthy, caring adults who are emotionally, physically, and financially stable, which allows them to love and guide our children to total wellbeing. In circle, we build mutuality and trust and honor our spirituality and faith. The curriculum has a strong focus on growing economic independence in Black communities, encouraging civic engagement and support for strengthening local Black institutions.
University For Parents:A year-round workforce readiness and healing initiative that helps struggling parents to advance by providing them with the skills and confidence that they need to advocate for themselves, their children and community, the goal of the program is to enable parents to become economically stable. In 2019 U4P, which is based in Atlanta, served over 250 adults and connected them to over 70 local partners who provided wraparound services that extended workforce, psychosocial, academic and consumer support. To ensure that parents can fully participate in the classes we also provided quality childcare and healthy meals to the families. The program is free to all participants.
The Rising HBCU: A Campus-Public Schools Literacy and STEM Mentoring Initiative The HBCU Rising aims to fill the pipeline of jobs which use STEM skills, for which the representation of African American participation is by far the lowest of any ethnic or racial group. The three-tiered mentoring program uses corporate volunteers in STEM-related professions to coach college students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), who in turn, mentor middle and elementary school students, both in their classrooms and afterschool. In 2019 the program served 500 students in Atlanta.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Susan L Taylor | President & CEO | 40 | $450,000 |
| Vivian Pickard | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Stuart Archibald | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Walker | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Reginald Van Lee | Chairman | 1 | $0 |
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