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##  *[The Good Samaritan Foundation FAQ]{.underline}*

**What is the Good Samaritan Foundation?**

Reflecting the powerful commitment to service of our founders, former
NFL superstars Art Monk, Charles Mann, Earnest Byner, and Tim Johnson,
The Good Samaritan Foundation is an all-out effort to reach and teach
District of Columbia teens. We began in 1993 and are a private,
nonprofit, 501(c) 3 organization.

**What is your mission?**

*To prepare youth for leadership in the community and the workplace.*

**What do you do?**

Good Samaritan gives young people a safe haven for ongoing homework
assistance, mentoring, life-skills and work-readiness training, job
placements, recreational and cultural enrichment opportunities, and
scholarship assistance. Building for the future, we weave leadership
development and community service throughout the program. Our intent is
to support and nurture youth as they explore and strengthen their unique
competencies -- cognitive, ethical, social, emotional, spiritual, and
physical.

**What sets Good Samaritan apart from other youth programs?**

We not only develop youth leadership; we are also leaders in youth
development. Knowing that short-term, patchwork services and
relationships simply aren't enough for many teens, Good Samaritan takes
the long view. We stress a one-to-one approach and integrated, intensive
services over time. Full-scale programming runs 42 weeks a year, and
every effort is made to engage students for the entire four years of
their high school experience. We are currently serving 45 students, 100%
are African-American and 75% come from single-family households. Last
year 90% of our students graduated from high school and 90% of them are
currently attending an institution of higher learning and employed in
meaningful work.

**Where do you work?**

Good Samaritan is currently dedicated to District of Columbia youth
attending Anacostia Senior High School and IDEA Public Charter High
School. We started in Anacostia and have expanded to the Deanwood
community . Are efforts with youth ages 13-25 targeted to Ward 7 and
Ward 8 and have many challenges of low high graduation, low college
attendance and graduation, low unemployment and health disparities. We
will be opening our headquarters on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in
Southeast Washington, D.C in Ward 8 in spring 2008, which as the
students say" will be our home". It will house the Student Training
Opportunity Center, which will include the afterschool program, computer
lab, library/resource room and administrative offices- a community
center.

**Who do you work with?**

We work with a growing roster of Washington area businesses and
organizations that employ our youths in summer jobs (e.g., Canon USA,
the Salvation Army, Choice Hotels International, and the YMCA). We also
collaborate with other youth-serving organizations on academic, sports
and cultural activities, enabling us to provide the broadest range of
services in the most cost-effective way.

**Who's in charge?**

Our co-founders Art Monk and Charles Mann lead Good Samaritan with an
operational staff of eight, a 17-member Board of Directors, and an
Honorary Board. Founded 14 years ago, Good Samaritan is already well
established in the Washington Metropolitan Area, with highly respected
Honorary Board Members (including *Washington Post* Publisher Donald
Graham, among many others).

**What's your annual budget? Where do you get your funds?**

The FY 2007 budget is \$700,000.00. Foundation and corporate grants are
our main sources of funding. We also receive funds from several annual
benefits, such as our Art Monk and Charles Mann Annual Celebrity Golf
Tournament, the Financial Planners Association Gala, and from a growing
network of individual donors.

**How can I learn more? How can I help?**

For more information about The Good Samaritan, please visit
www.gsf-dc.org, e-mail gsfstaff@gsf-dc.org or call Mr. Lawrence Dark our
Executive Director at 202/637-3580; fax, at 202/234-3494.