Project Still I Rise, Inc.

Project Still I Rise is a community based nonprofit agency founded in 2002. The mission of the agency is to empower today’s youth for tomorrow’s opportunities through academic, mentoring, and leadership development programming.

Project Still I Rise embraces the core values of collaboration, compassion, servant leadership and stewardship.

• Collaboration - we will work together with the community at large forming partnerships that support our mission.
• Compassion - we will provide service in a spirit of empathy, love and concern.
• Servant Leadership - we will create a service-led environment.
• Stewardship - we will manage resources effectively and responsibly.

Project Still I Rise offers the following science-based, curriculum-driven, and outcome-oriented programs: parent education and support, youth empowerment/development, school dropout prevention, comprehensive school-family-community partnerships, in-school and out-of-school youth education and employment, and cultural awareness/sensitivity. The agency also offers training and technical assistance on a variety of topics, program design and development, curriculum development, and professional consultation.

In addition to the general population, Project Still I Rise serves the following special service populations: youth who are incarcerated, on parole, or on probation, families and youth involved with substance abuse, and youth who have dropped out of school and for whom return to school is not possible.