Geoffrey Canada has a radical new idea: if you really want to change the lives of inner-city kids, change everything all at once—their schools, families, and neighborhoods. As President and CEO of the revolutionary Harlem Childrens Zone in New York City, he has dedicated the past 20 years of his life to helping the most impoverished, at-risk youth beat the odds. Radically ambitious and startlingly simple, Canadas programs are on the cutting edge of preventing youth violence and fostering community development.
What Canada has done for a 24 block neighborhood in Harlem has been groundbreaking, replicated in communities across the country. Through programs such as the Beacon School, Community Pride Initiative, Harlem Gems, Harlem Peacemakers, and the Promise Academy, a new generation of charter school, he has developed a network of services that reach most of the 6,500 children and their families living in the Harlem Childrens Zone.
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@SA2010fan You may not be able to make a change in the community but consider how you can make a change in one child’s life. Sometimes all you can do is live well and be a good example. Even if you could convince three people around you to, as a group, help one child, that’s still one more child than before.
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Geoffrey Canada will have a monument built after him. because in a country where everyone is looking out for themsleves, he’s devoted his life to a community with the goal of transforming it. I only wish i had the guts to embark on something of that magnitude…we have so many problems in our black communities that we will need dozens of Geoffrey Canadas to change black america.
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