New York City – On January 25, 2016, the National CARES Mentoring Movement presented its 10th Anniversary Gala, For the Love of Our Children: A National Call to Commitment, to raise critical funding that will support the replication of the organization’s transformational group-mentoring programs for young people living in highly under-resourced communities.
The event also served as a 70th birthday celebration for National CARES founder and Essence magazine Editor-in-Chief Emerita, Susan L. Taylor.
It honored philanthropists Eddie and C. Sylvia Brown for their extensive philanthropic support of educational initiatives through the Brown Family Foundation, and its ongoing commitment to the CARES mission.
Since 2006, National CARES has recruited, trained and connected more than 140,000 caring mentors with more than 200,000 children in schools and local youth-serving programs in the 58 U.S. cities including Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, Washington and New York.
“My childhood was filled to overflow with what all children need and deserve: I was safe. I was protected. I was loved. This is what all children deserve but too many do not get and this is what we are determined to ensure: the provision of protective cover and loving care for every child who needs it so that they each have the opportunity to realize their own dreams—like I and so many of my generation did. Securing our children is the big business of America and it is what I have committed myself to for the rest of my life,” said Taylor.
Photos credit: Isaiah Morris
