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Outline:
Treana Penn
English 201B M/W 10-12
Professor Sabir
Local Social Entrepreneur Planning Sheet
1.The social entrepreneur that is being identified in my community is Dr. Joseph E. Marshall Jr.2.Doctor E. Marshall has identified the female and male youth risk of becoming dead or incarcerated.
3.The name of the organization that was started is Omegas Boy’s Club located in San Francisco, Ca.
4.Omega Boy’s Club reaches out towards the community creating a family type environment.
5.They decided to address this issue because they wanted to increase the youth to stay ‘Alive and Free’.
6.The community owns this process by continuing to join or to tell others about the good of the organization.
7.The local component is by the city helping Omega Boy’s Club stay funded by connecting with different organizations and the city.
Draft:
Treana Penn
English 201B
May 20 2009
A Social Entrepreneur: Dr. Joseph Marshall
The youth of the Bay Area has a higher rate of being dead or in jail than being 'Alive and Free'. Dr. Joseph Marshall Jr. a social entrepreneur of San Francisco, CA. He felt the need to give back to his community by starting a nonprofit organization for the youth. An organization for youth where they can have a safe environment to hang out while learning to be successful at the same time. Social entrepreneurs are people that point out a problem in their community and start up their own business to change the social problem. Social entrepreneurs are dedicated to fixing the problem(s) of their community with a vision of a better future. Dr. Marshall jr. Took on the role of being social entrepreneur to improve his own community.Dr. Joseph Marshall jr. Has taken the responsibility to give back to his community by starting a nonprofit organization for the youth. It is said that we are a product of our environment, Dr. marshall grew up in a single mother home in the rough area of Los Angeles. One day he picked up a book about Malcolm X and read what it had to offer his brain. The words of Malcolm X inspired and changed his thinking process causing him to look at life more optimistically. He refers that book to every man he meets, because he feels it is for every man to learn from. It even inspired him to write his own book, Street Soldier: One Man's Struggle to Save a Generation, one Life at a Time.
After his life epiphany he went onto the college world receiving many degrees. He gained; a B.A in Political Science and Sociology from the University of San Francisco, Ca M.A in Education from San Francisco State University, a Ph D in Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, Ca. He also received Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Morehouse College and University of San Francisco. Dr. Marshall has one son that he teaches that everybody's life is important. Father and child relationship and male role models are important another reason for Omegas Boys Club. He was employed as a teacher and administrator for 25 years of San Francisco Unifed School District.
The organization was founded in February 1987 by Dr. Marshall and Jack Jacqua. This current generation has been lost and Dr. Marshall and Jack has been on a mission to find it and restore it. Omega Boys Club started out with just boys and later on in the years girls began to be involved in the movement Omega Boys Club lives by motto to ‘stay Alive and Free’. There is no member or no fees to be apart of the Omegas Boys Club, it is a free program. They hold Leadership Academy classes consisting math and literature every Tuesday from 5:30-8:00pm and family meetings from 8:30-10:00pm Omega’s goal is to keep the youth in school and to be aware of anything that will stop them from doing so. Omega’s Boys Club is also a scholarship program, over the past years they have sent 141 Omega Students to different colleges and they all graduated. Every student that graduated, somebody from Omega was there to capture that moment. There are many trainers available to teach social and employment skills.
Many people have experienced and heard how Omegas Boy Club has affected many people in the San Francisco, Bay Area. There has been said many people who wished there was an Omega Boys Club in their own city or State. Dr. Marshall and the staff of Omega expands as much as possible by teaching everything they teach in Leadership Classes to Elementary and Middle School classes. “Coach” Wilburn Jigetts spread so much wisdom before he passed in 2003 “the more you know, the more you owe” is one of his coachism that would represent what Omega is. Coach Jiggetts was the elder of The Omega family, like the grandfather, every year Omega celebrates his life with a memorial celebration. The Omega team has traveled the world to share the works of being “Alive and Free”. Omega has done its job by making an impact in its community to keep the youth “Alive and Free”. Yet, in reality there job is not done, because their plan is to keep the movement going on forever. Omega has not decreased the rate of violence, but it has increased the knowledge of the consequences of violence. Many people have participated in Omega keeping youth and adults out of street decreasing the statistic rate in San Francisco area, bay area. My life has personally changed from Omega. I have taken the Leadership classes, that has given me a different aspect on life on the way I handle every day situations. Out of all the programs that Omega had to offer the Black College Tour that they paid half for. I was able to visit the college of my dreams that I always told Dr. Marshall about. We were able to meet new people, have fun, and learn black history. Dr. Marshall told me that If “I claim something as mine it will be mine”, so I claimed Clark Atlanta University to be my school that I transfer to. The leaders of Omega teach us respect and I have nothing, but respect for everybody in the Omega family.
A Social Entrepreneur is a person who realizes the issues in their community. They find solutions to the problems by creating businesses that can help the issues. The businesses are usually non-profit, because they are more concerned for the change and not the money. No pun intended. Dr. Marshall has fit these categories of being a social entrepreneur by creating Omega Boys Club. Dr. Marshall is a role to his community and his idea will live on forever.
Final draft:
Treana Penn
English 201B
May 20 2009
A Social Entrepreneur: Dr. Joseph Marshall
The youth of the Bay Area has a higher rate of being dead or in jail than being 'Alive and Free'. Dr. Joseph Marshall Jr. a social entrepreneur of San Francisco, CA. He felt the need to give back to his community by starting a nonprofit organization for the youth. An organization for youth where they can have a safe environment to hang out while learning to be successful at the same time. Social entrepreneurs are people that point out a problem in their community and start up their own business to change the social problem. Social entrepreneurs are dedicated to fixing the problem(s) of their community with a vision of a better future. Dr. Marshall jr. Took on the role of being social entrepreneur to improve his own community.
Dr. Joseph Marshall jr. Has taken the responsibility to give back to his community by starting a nonprofit organization for the youth. It began when doctor Marshall was in his last years of high school, when he was going to give up on his life and drop out of high school. It is said that we are a product of our environment, Dr. marshall grew up in a single mother home in the rough area of Los Angeles. One day he picked up a book about Malcolm X and read what it had to offer his brain. The words of Malcolm X inspired and changed his thinking process causing him to look at life more optimistically. He refers that book to every man he meets, because he feels it is for every man to learn from. It even inspired him to write his own book, Street Soldier: One Man's Struggle to Save a Generation, one Life at a Time.
After his life epiphany he went onto the college world receiving many degrees. He gained; a B.A in Political Science and Sociology from the University of San Francisco, Ca M.A in Education from San Francisco State University, a Ph D in Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, Ca. He also received Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Morehouse College and University of San Francisco. Dr. Marshall has one son that he teaches that everybody's life is important. Father and child relationship and male role models are important another reason for Omegas Boys Club. He was employed as a teacher and administrator for 25 years of San Francisco Unifed School District.
The organization was founded in February 1987 by Dr. Marshall and Jack Jacqua. Omega was made to decrease the high rate of inner city youth either dropping out of school, dying or being in jail. It has been recently dated that by race, those who are incarcerated; 43.9% black, 18.26% Hispanic, 34.72% white, and 3.11% other. By population; 12.32% black, 12.55% Hispanic, 69.13% white, and 6% other. Every day youth ages from 16-24 mainly minorities end up dead or in jail. This current generation has been lost and Dr. Marshall and Jack has been on a mission to find it and restore it. Omega Boys Club started out with just boys and later on in the years girls began to be involved in the movement Omega Boys Club lives by motto to ‘stay Alive and Free’. There is no member or no fees to be apart of the Omegas Boys Club, it is a free program. They hold Leadership Academy classes consisting math and literature every Tuesday from 5:30-8:00pm and family meetings from 8:30-10:00pm Omega’s goal is to keep the youth in school and to be aware of anything that will stop them from doing so. Omega’s Boys Club is also a scholarship program, over the past years they have sent 141 Omega Students to different colleges and they all graduated. Every student that graduated, somebody from Omega was there to capture that moment. There are many trainers available to teach social and employment skills.
Many people have experienced and heard how Omegas Boy Club has affected many people in the San Francisco, Bay Area. There has been said many people who wished there was an Omega Boys Club in their own city or State. Dr. Marshall and the staff of Omega expands as much as possible by teaching everything they teach in Leadership Classes to Elementary and Middle School classes. “Coach” Wilburn Jigetts spread so much wisdom before he passed in 2003 “the more you know, the more you owe” is one of his coachism that would represent what Omega is. Coach Jiggetts was the elder of The Omega family, like the grandfather, every year Omega celebrates his life with a memorial celebration. The Omega team has traveled the world to share the works of being “Alive and Free”. The organization continues to grow by networking with the city and some foundations that are non profit as well and fundraisers to keep the program funded. Omega also continues to grows by what is called their voice, “Street Soldiers”, a radio show hosted by Dr. Marshall and Lady Estell every Sunday night at eight pm, on 106.1 fm. There are 13 radio stations that affiliate with Omega radio station, because they believe in Omega’s Goal.
Omega has done its job by making an impact in its community to keep the youth “Alive and Free”. Yet, in reality there job is not done, because their plan is to keep the movement going on forever. Omega has not decreased the rate of violence, but it has increased the knowledge of the consequences of violence. Many people have participated in Omega keeping youth and adults out of street decreasing the statistic rate in San Francisco area, bay area. My life has personally changed from Omega. I have taken the Leadership classes, that has given me a different aspect on life on the way I handle every day situations. Out of all the programs that Omega had to offer the Black College Tour that they paid half for. I was able to visit the college of my dreams that I always told Dr. Marshall about. We were able to meet new people, have fun, and learn black history. Dr. Marshall told me that If “I claim something as mine it will be mine”, so I claimed Clark Atlanta University to be my school that I transfer to. The leaders of Omega teach us respect and I have nothing, but respect for everybody in the Omega family.
A Social Entrepreneur is a person who realizes the issues in their community. They find solutions to the problems by creating businesses that can help the issues. The businesses are usually non-profit, because they are more concerned for the change and not the money. No pun intended. Dr. Marshall has fit these categories of being a social entrepreneur by creating Omega Boys Club. Dr. Marshall is a role to his community and his idea will live on forever. The benefit of social entrepreneurs they work on change for change and not the money.
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