The SCORE Store will facilitate its initiatives through strategic partnerships to maximize the impact of the initiatives and to use the best practices standard of excellence.

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Transformative Education Initiative (TEI)

 

The TEl mission is to raise money through the sell of SCORE merchandise to educate as many African American young adults as possible in perpetuity. We will execute this initiative by providing youths of color with scholarships to HBCU's and vocational schools. We believe that TEI will, eventually, lessen the transgenerational wealth disparity gap that exists between black and white Americans. In addition, we understand that not every person wants to attend college. For that reason, it's important for viable vocational school opportunities to be made available as well.

 

Consumer Awareness Initiative (CAI)

 

The CAI will educate consumers in the U.S. and beyond as to which companies SCORE (support causes of racial equality) and which ones don't. Over the next year or two, we will be asking companies to support this SCORE initiative by obtaining a license to use the SCORE copyrights to mark their products. This mark will alert and allow consumers to buy the products and support the services of socially conscious business entities. The money raised through this initiative by obtaining a license to use the SCORE copyrights to mark their products. This mark will alert and allow consumers to buy the products and support the services of socially conscious business entities. The money raised through this initiative will help provide down payment assistance for African American first time home buyers.

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Project U-Turn (PUT)

 

The PUT initiative is to help destroy the school to prison pipeline (the connection between predominately black schools and state prisons) and to prevent black and brown youth from engaging in criminal conduct which will socially disenfranchise them for life, both of which help perpetuate mass incarceration. Mass incarceration is the practice of branding young men and women of color as felons to subject them to a lifetime of legalized discrimination (employment, education, housing, voting discrimination, etc.) and, subsequently, relegate them to second class citizenship.

 

PUT is a two prong program. The first component of the program, we want to go into middle and high schools where the students are predominately black and brown and educate them about the school to prison pipeline and the collateral consequences of becoming a convicted felon. The second component of the program is a 13 week course that we'd like to serve as a prison diversion program or to be required in conjunction with other prison diversion programs. This program will educate student about such topics as the perils of being labeled a convicted felon, restorative justice, interact electronically with persons serving long term prison sentences, etc. We'd like for the program to act as a buffer between black and brown communities and the

criminal justice system.

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Our plan is to implement a 5 year PUT pilot program in the City of Chicago.

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Time-Out Campaign

 

The Time Out Campaign initiative was created to destroy the sexual assault and dating violence cultures in college campuses in the U.S., through education, accountability, and empathy building. However, in order to alleviate these enemies of humanity, we must implement the Time Out programs on high school campuses as well as college campuses.

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Every fall, during Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, we want high schools and colleges to host accountability pledge drives. Students and participating staff will make the following pledge:

 

"I pledge to never become a perpetrator of sexual assault nor dating violence, and I pledge to report all incidents of sexual assault and dating violence to school authorities whether am a victim, survivor, or a bystander."

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Students will be given pledge cards and wristbands with the words Made the Pledge with the current school year on them. Every year the color of the wristbands will change to ensure that every keeps their pledges current.

Every spring, during Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention month, we want to host a Sexual Assault and Dating Violence Prevention Conference for young men between the ages of 12 and 24. These conferences will feature speakers ranging from abuse survivors to local prosecutors explaining the acts that constitute sexual misconduct. Our objective with the conferences is empathy building.

 

We deem sexual assault and dating violence to be both social justice and human rights issues that threatens the health, safety, and well being of our nation's(and other nations') most vulnerable citizens. We'd like to partner with sports leagues and other interested entities to host these annual programs.

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If you are interested in hosting any of our initiatives, please contact us.