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HISTORY

In 2000, a childhood friend of Barnabas Shakur was accused and found guilty of a crime. Only 19 at the time of his arrest and  belonged to a notorious street gang called the Bloods, he was give a life sentence. Upon his friend's conviction, Barnabas was devastated and decided to create change. In 2001, he founded PR-G to help teens from his hood. To read the story of PR-G click here

Programs:

Foot Soldiers: a maintenance program that works with neighborhood teens to provide homeowners in the Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights area of Brooklyn, NY, with yard sweeping, garbage removal and snow shoveling services. The program uniquely links the stipends teens earn to their academic achievements, job readiness trainings, household responsibilities, physical activities, personal development workshops, and community projects. Through this program we have served over 500 teenagers.

NY Knicks Poetry Slams: a six (6) week poetry program that helps participants develop their ability to write and recite performance and nonperformance style poetry. To date the program has reached over 8,000 students through school site visits, Program Open Auditions, College Fairs, workshops and Poetry Slams. Since PR-G’s involvement the program has provided over $500,000 to NY teens educational grants for college.

Community Pride Day (CPD): a service project, PR-G Foot Soldier participants created in 2003 and have been required to plan and implement since.  CPD is an annual day of fun, games and entertainment for the entire Bedford Stuyvesant community. With a threefold mission of inspiring community pride through fun activities, connecting youth to local youth programs and giving local business owners a venue to market and give away their products and services to the community. There has been over 3,000 neighborhood residence in attendance since CPD's inception.

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