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Report Our Roots OUR ROOTS 2017 ANNUAL REPORT OUR ROOTS This report is the first in a three-part series intended to bring you on a journey from Center of Life’s past to its future. The first, Our Roots, will tell the story of how Center of Life began and check back in with some of its first students. Look out for Our Rhythm, the 2018 report, and The Road Ahead, the 2019 report, in the coming years. TABLE OF CONTENTS Mission and Vision ..................................................................................................................1 Our Roots ..................................................................................................................................2 Alumni Reflections ..................................................................................................................4 Courtney Moore ....................................................................................................................4 Anton DeFade ......................................................................................................................4 Asia Mason ..........................................................................................................................5 Desmond Russell ..................................................................................................................5 Board of Directors ..................................................................................................................6 Staff .............................................................................................................................................7 Foundation and Government Partners ..............................................................................8 Corporate Sponsors ..............................................................................................................8 Individual Donors ...................................................................................................................8 Community Partners ..............................................................................................................9 Special Thanks ........................................................................................................................9 Financial Report .....................................................................................................................10 2017 by the Numbers ...........................................................................................................12 How to Support Us ................................................................................................................13 TABLE OF CONTENTS Live@COL: Summer Concert Series Finale at former Gladstone School, July 2017. OUR MISSION OUR VISION TO PROVIDE FAMILIES AND YOUTH WITH TO EMPOWER AND EQUIP THE LIFE SKILLS, EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND FAMILIES TO BRING ECONOMIC RESOURCES NECESSARY TO BE STRONG AND REVITALIZATION TO THEIR TO MAKE THEIR COMMUNITIES STRONG. COMMUNITIES. 1 Clockwise from top left: The KRUNK Movement’s first computer, 2004; The KRUNK Movement, 2007; Community event, 2001; Health and fitness program, 2003; The KRUNK Movement at Lincoln Middle School, 2006; Basketball at Gladstone, 1990. OUR ROOTS TIM SMITH - CEO, CENTER OF LIFE Looking back on the past 17 years, it’s tempting to try and working school. Our roots are the first community event Center determine the singular moment Center of Life was born. Was of Life ever held, where the first COL Jazz band played. Back it when I moved to Hazelwood in 1980? When I established then the band was made up of just five people — me, my two Center of Life as a nonprofit in 2001? Or back even further, sons, and my friends Neil Martin and Doug Ransaw. Our roots in 1953, when my father re-established Keystone Church? In are the first computer The KRUNK Movement ever made music reality, our roots are a series of moments that, taken together, on, a 2004 Apple eMac, the height of technology at that time. put us on the path to where we are today. The kids had to crowd around it to make music because it was Our roots are me hanging out with neighborhood kids on the only computer they had. Our roots are the early days of our the Gladstone basketball court, back in 1990 when I was still tutoring program Fusion, which was held in the old Hazelwood working as an investment banker and Gladstone was still a Library. Our roots are a group of Center of Life students that 2 Clockwise from top left: Rowing class with Three Rivers Rowing Club, 2003; Art installation with Robert Qualters, 2002; Photography class with CMU and Manchester Craftsman’s Guild, 2003; Fusion at the library, 2011; The first COL Jazz band, 2001; The KRUNK Movement dancers, 2002. worked with world-renowned artist, Robert Qualters, in 2002 the best technology available, producing albums of original OUR ROOTS to create an art installation about the futures they imagined for songs, music videos, photography, and graphic design projects. themselves. Don’t worry, we’ve got a few more computers now. These TIM SMITH - CEO, CENTER OF LIFE These days, instead of playing basketball with the days, Fusion has a much bigger home with newly renovated neighborhood kids after coming home from the bank, I get up classrooms and plenty of space to learn. every day and head to Center of Life, which sits in the same Those kids who imagined their futures in 2002 are now building that housed my father’s church. There’s still plenty adults. The art installation they made still sits outside our office— of basketball though — now we have a youth athletics and wooden cut-outs of dancers, musicians, judges, and basketball mentorship program called Crossover that runs four days a players greet me every day on my way into work. Some of those week. These days, our original COL Jazz band has grown and kids grew up to be exactly what they imagined: Almost all of developed into a world-class ensemble. In 2012, after winning them are college graduates, many in the arts. Others found the Open Combo Division at the Next Generation Jazz Festival, their dreams changed as they grew up and experienced what a youth event put on by the Monterey Jazz Festival, COL Jazz the world has to offer. As for me, I’m truly grateful for our roots was invited to perform at the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival and for the privilege of being around long enough to see lives itself. These days, The KRUNK Movement is still working with change for the better. 3 ALUMNI REFLECTIONS COURTNEY MOORE ANTON DEFADE THEN: THE KRUNK MOVEMENT THEN: COL JAZZ YEARS AT COL: 2007-2009 YEARS AT COL: 2009-2011 COLLEGE: THE NEW SCHOOL, NEW YORK CITY, NY COLLEGE: THE NEW SCHOOL, NEW YORK CITY, NY NOW: GRAPHIC DESIGNER NOW: PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN WHAT DOES CENTER OF LIFE MEAN TO YOU? WHAT’S YOUR FIRST MEMORY OF COL JAZZ? I associate it with community and culture, being involved in I came in and did an audition ... I really had no idea what I my neighborhood and in my city. was walking into and just how life-changing it was. WHAT DID YOUR TIME HERE TEACH YOU? WHAT PROFESSIONAL IMPACT DID IT HAVE? I think The KRUNK Movement taught me leadership skills. I got a lot of experience being able to develop as a At first I was scared to take on a role where I had to tell musician alongside other really motivated musicians. The people my ideas. It’s so easy to keep your ideas in your connections I made here have lasted since then, and I built head and not do anything with them. But working in a my musical career based on those connections. comfortable environment where my friends were with WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO AFTER COL JAZZ? me, they empowered me and encouraged me. Now as a I’m now in a band called The Commonheart, and we’re graphic designer, I’m involved in an artistic community of touring all over the country, including SXSW earlier this people who are putting art out there with a message. year. Being able to do what you love is awesome. 4 We caught up with a few alumni of Center of Life programs to ask them about how Center of Life helped them get where they are. See full interviews at ALUMNI REFLECTIONS https://www.centeroflife.net/alumni ASIA MASON DESMOND RUSSELL THEN: THE KRUNK MOVEMENT THEN: THE KRUNK MOVEMENT YEARS AT COL: 2007-2008 YEARS AT COL: 2006-2007 COLLEGE: CARLOW UNIVERSITY, PITTSBURGH, PA COLLEGE: HAMPTON UNIVERSITY, HAMPTON, VA NOW: PROJECT MANAGER FOR STUDENT VOICE NOW: E-COMMERCE TECHNICAL LEAD WHAT DID YOUR TIME HERE TEACH YOU? WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE MEMORY? That it’s OK to be who you are. However you express Getting to perform at different schools. The younger kids yourself, that’s something to be confident in. didn’t know all the words to our songs, but they were really WHAT PROFESSIONAL IMPACT DID IT HAVE? excited just to hear some of the music and the positive I work at Pittsburgh Public Schools, and my experience at messages that we brought. You don’t think of yourself as Center of Life really helped me understand the positive a role model at that age, but having people look up to me impact out-of-school programs have on youth. influenced my behavior and helped me be a better person. WHAT’S IT LIKE TO SEE THE KRUNK MOVEMENT’S HOW DID THE KRUNK MOVEMENT IMPACT YOU? PROGRESS OVER TIME? I wanted to get involved with youth as a result of The The public attention and the knowledge and the exposure KRUNK Movement, so I joined a mentoring program where that the program’s getting, rightly so ... it’s amazing to see I mentor a 9-year-old. I’ve learned a lot from him. In a
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