MBK Alliance Stories

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ImpactTulsa has fostered a network of partners in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who are specifically focused on impacting the systems that affect BYMOC.

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MBK Yonkers received recognition as an MBK Model Community in 2023 for demonstrating population-level impact in Milestone 3, achieving a graduation rate of 91% by 2021.

• Youth
• Health & Wellbeing

MBK Omaha has become a Model Community for showing a population-level impact on Milestone 6, all youth remain safe from violent crimes by demonstrating a 30 percent decrease in homicides from 2011 to 2022.

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• Education

Hear directly from one of the My Brother’s Keeper Model Communities on how they achieved a 91 percent graduation rate for students of color.

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• Youth

Get to know two young men carrying forward the legacy of MBK

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• The Arts

The My Brother’s Keeper Alliance released a Black History Month reading list for young leaders

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• Leaders

Meet an Obama Leader supporting Virginians in need.

• The Arts
• Youth

Learn more about Nathan, his experience at Guitars Over Guns, and his plans for the future.

• Youth
• Chicago

See how President Obama is supporting youth and making a difference for young men.

• Youth
• Chicago

Check out the Freedom Summer 2023 grant recipients!

• Youth
• Chicago

Creating Safe and Engaging Spaces for Youth

• Youth
• Chicago

Since 2005, New Life Centers of Chicagoland has addressed the needs of the neighbors surrounding New Life Community Church locations and beyond.

• Youth
• Equality

I am proud to announce that the MBK Alliance is ramping up our efforts to support our MBK Network. The start of these efforts is our nationwide call to action, Freedom Summer 2022. Communities across the country often experience an uptick in youth violence

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Here at the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, we support communities of color across the United States and Puerto Rico that are taking action to create systemic solutions to the most pressing issues facing boys and young men of color.

• Youth
• Equality

The My Brother’s Keeper Alliance began as a call to action for the nation to address the persistent opportunity gaps boys and young men of color face and to ensure all young people can reach their full potential.

• Youth
• Equality

Change, particularly long-lasting, sustainable change, can never happen in a vacuum.

• Youth
• Programs

We hope you all have had a safe and fulfilling 2021. Through all of this year’s highs and lows, we continued our commitment to serve boys and young men of color, and with your help, we made progress in communities across the country.

• Youth
• Community Engagement

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Father's Day

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• Health & Wellbeing

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• Health & Wellbeing

This past February, we checked in with the Loíza Alliance for Peace, one of our MBK National Impact Community partners, for a virtual site visit about their effort to keep violence in Loíza at all-time lows.

• Youth
• Health & Wellbeing

It’s been seven years since President Obama called on the nation to address the persistent opportunity gaps boys and young men of color face and to ensure all young people can reach their full potential.

• Youth
• Health & Wellbeing

For the past two years, MBK Alliance has been proud to champion the work of our Impact and Seed Community partners, and today announced an additional $1 million investment to support their response to the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice.

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I Am My Brother's Keeper

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• Equality

2020

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• Stories

Increasing Access to Reliable Transportation in Our Communities with the LyftUp Access Alliance

• Youth
• Education

Inspiring Hope in Denver, One Student at a Time

• Youth
• Education

Community Spotlight: MBK Yonkers

• Youth
• Health & Wellbeing

• Youth
• Programs

• Changemakers
• Health & Wellbeing

To some, gun violence and broken trust between police and community members seem like problems that are simply too big to fix, but not to Willie Barney.

• Equality
• Changemakers

Remembering Congressman John Lewis

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• Youth

• Youth
• Equality

RYSE, our MBK Seed Community Partner based in Richmond, California, opened their doors in 2008 after eight years of youth-led organizing and planning.

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• Chicago

Together with the Joyce Foundation, we hosted a screening of “Just Mercy” on February 24 in Chicago, bringing together hundreds of leading voices from the city to discuss the film’s themes and the potential of restorative justice.