Community Change
Scholarship & Community Grant Program(s)
The UBFSF Scholarship and Community Grant Program(s) are two distinct programs we’ve designed specifically to develop and organize the vast range of skills, abilities, and talents in underserved communities.
Our scholarship program consists of:
Sports Programs
In order for tomorrow’s youth to become leaders and not statistics, they require the support of the greater community.
With all the controversy surrounding mass incarceration of adult African American males, little, if anything, has been said about the fact that in some states as much as 77% of the youth incarcerated are African American.
We are the proud sponsors for the local league of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball in Bristow, Holdenville, Shawnee, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Our goal with this program is to create a pathway to higher education for youth in underserved communities.
Internships
In keeping with our Mission Statement and the Scholarship and Community Reinvestment programs, the Internship Sign-Up Program is driven by values, focused on results, and genuinely appreciative of people.
R.E.B.U.I.L.D. Community Reinvestment Program
”R.E.B.U.I.L.D.” is designed specifically to provide alternative paths in neighborhoods with high incarceration rates to youth and their parents to develop, equip, connect and utilize human and social capital in the restoration of their neighborhood while building skills to keep them out of the prison pipeline.
Zo Media Productions, LLC
Zo Media Productions, LLC, is a multimedia, Publishing/production subsidiary operating under the organization’s nonprofit charter to specifically collect, edit, publish, produce, promote, disseminate and distribute to the public for educational purposes.
From essays, poetry, written articles, books, pamphlets, written songs, sheet music, and works of visual art including, but not limited to, dramatic works, paintings, and hand-drawn images, which deal with, comment upon, or expound some aspect of social, political, and/or economic condition from an underserved community.
UBF Special Projects
Special Projects, unlike programs, are activities the organization may undertake to advance its mission, goals & objectives, or Philosophy (or to assist its affiliate organizations with a program, event, or cause)
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