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## Coordinating Council

- Copyright 2007

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**Coordinating Council**
**December 7, 2007**

## The foundation was launched in 1993 as the result of a vision imparted to its founders, Art Monk, Charles Mann, Tim Johnson and Earnest Byner. 

Since those early days, GSF piloted a program—which had been successful in Tallahassee, Florida—here in DC, called the Student Training Opportunity Program (STOP). 

STOP was designed to provide inner-city youth with summer internships. We recruited a small number of students back then and provided them with job-related skill workshops during the year in preparation of their eight-week summer jobs. 

Today we are a year-around program, serving over fifty high school students, four days a week during the school year and five days a week during the summer. 

- The foundation was launched in 1993 as the result of a vision imparted to its founders, Art Monk, Charles Mann, Tim Johnson and Earnest Byner.
- Since those early days, GSF piloted a program—which had been successful in Tallahassee, Florida—here in DC, called the Student Training Opportunity Program (STOP).
- STOP was designed to provide inner-city youth with summer internships. We recruited a small number of students back then and provided them with job-related skill workshops during the year in preparation of their eight-week summer jobs.
- Today we are a year-around program, serving over fifty high school students, four days a week during the school year and five days a week during the summer.

## STOP (Student, Training, Opportunity, Program) is the Foundation's employment and leadership development program designed to prepare inner-city high school students for success in the community and in the workplace. 

Each component of the program seeks to inspire youth to give back to the community, work hard, reach academic excellence and set high standards of achievement.

STOP is a year round youth development program, which provides a safe place and adult supervision for high school students, where they can:
Work on homework, strengthen academic skills and develop social skills 
Explore their interests 
Participate in moral development and other meaningful activities that help them build positive character traits and a sense of civic responsibility 

- STOP (Student, Training, Opportunity, Program) is the Foundation's employment and leadership development program designed to prepare inner-city high school students for success in the community and in the workplace.
- Each component of the program seeks to inspire youth to give back to the community, work hard, reach academic excellence and set high standards of achievement.
- STOP is a year round youth development program, which provides a safe place and adult supervision for high school students, where they can:
- Work on homework, strengthen academic skills and develop social skills
- Explore their interests
- Participate in moral development and other meaningful activities that help them build positive character traits and a sense of civic responsibility

## 
S – Student: Shaping the Next Generation 
T – Training: Educating for Life and Leadership 
O – Opportunity: Inspiring Success 
P – Program: Enabling Excellence 

**S** – Student: Shaping the Next Generation
**T** – Training: Educating for Life and Leadership
**O** – Opportunity: Inspiring Success
**P** – Program: Enabling Excellence

**COMPONENTS OF “STOP”...**

## Anacostia, located in Southeast Washington D.C., has come to epitomize the crime-ravaged, economically troubled communities across urban America that have become home to many of our poverty-stricken.

Although the Good Samaritan Foundation cannot single-handedly eliminate the factors that lead to these conditions, we endeavor to serve as a change agent in the mission to lessen the suffering in this community.

The future site of The Good Samaritan Foundation Anacostia Training and Outreach Center, located at 2405 Martin Luther King Avenue in Southeast D.C., will strengthen our infrastructure and bring us closer to assisting these families.

- Although the Good Samaritan Foundation cannot single-handedly eliminate the factors that lead to these conditions, we endeavor to serve as a change agent in the mission to lessen the suffering in this community.
- The future site of The Good Samaritan Foundation Anacostia Training and Outreach Center, located at 2405 Martin Luther King Avenue in Southeast D.C., will strengthen our infrastructure and bring us closer to assisting these families.

**Good Samaritan Foundation Training and Outreach Center**

##  The Foundation seeks to achieve the Five Promises of America's
   Promise. 
 Ongoing relationships with caring adults 
 Safe places with structured activities during non-school hours 
 Healthy start and future 
 Marketable skills through effective education 
 Opportunities to give back through community service 

 We are excited to announce that with the completion of the first
  Training and Outreach Center, the Foundation will be able to serve
  all Five Promises. 

 The Training Center will be a full-service student center, where 
   young adults can go to study hall, surf the World Wide Web in the
   Power Up computer lab, or have a healthy after school snack.

-  The Foundation seeks to achieve the Five Promises of America's
-    Promise.
-  Ongoing relationships with caring adults
-  Safe places with structured activities during non-school hours
-  Healthy start and future
-  Marketable skills through effective education
-  Opportunities to give back through community service
-  We are excited to announce that with the completion of the first
-   Training and Outreach Center, the Foundation will be able to serve
-   all Five Promises.
-  The Training Center will be a full-service student center, where
-    young adults can go to study hall, surf the World Wide Web in the
-    Power Up computer lab, or have a healthy after school snack.

##  The future site of the Training Center requires significant renovations. 

 Because of the generosity of our corporate sponsors—Accenture, Clark
  Construction, the Freedom Forum, Association of Builders and
  Contractors, Ford Foundation, and Equalfooting.com, we are able to take
  the first steps towards making the Training Center a reality. 

 Once the first Training Center is completed, we hope to provide centers
   throughout the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, in neighborhoods
   where there is a great need for the Foundation's services.

-  The future site of the Training Center requires significant renovations.
-  Because of the generosity of our corporate sponsors—Accenture, Clark
-   Construction, the Freedom Forum, Association of Builders and
-   Contractors, Ford Foundation, and Equalfooting.com, we are able to take
-   the first steps towards making the Training Center a reality.
-  Once the first Training Center is completed, we hope to provide centers
-    throughout the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, in neighborhoods
-    where there is a great need for the Foundation's services.

##  The Good Samaritan Foundation relies on the generosity of others to
   operate, whether it be a monetary donation or the contribution of one
   afternoon a week to tutor a student in chemistry. No matter how you
   choose to help the Foundation, each donation is equally important in
   helping our students succeed.

 You and your organization also can help fulfill our vision for the
   Training Center by becoming a sponsor.

  For more information on how you can help, please e-mail 
   gsfstaff@gsf-dc.org

-  The Good Samaritan Foundation relies on the generosity of others to
-    operate, whether it be a monetary donation or the contribution of one
-    afternoon a week to tutor a student in chemistry. No matter how you
-    choose to help the Foundation, each donation is equally important in
-    helping our students succeed.
-  You and your organization also can help fulfill our vision for the
-    Training Center by becoming a sponsor.
-   For more information on how you can help, please e-mail
-    gsfstaff@gsf-dc.org