Youth Leadership Black Belt Empowers Our Youth
To Reach Their Full Potential
The Glenda Davis Deese Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in April 2015, provides Leadership Principles such as Responsibility, Making Good Choices and Saving for the future to name a few. The target audience are those who are adversely impacted socially or economically.
Alabama’s Black Belt area has been identified as having some of the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the nation. High unemployment and high poverty rates are leading contributors to youth delinquency and concurrent criminal behavior. School systems fall below the national standards ranking Alabama schools as low as number 49 out of 50 states in the nation.
Youth Leadership Black Belt, staffed by professionals, offers a “hand up” not a “hand out” to the youth looking to improve their quality of life.