Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center
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Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Muhammad Ali Council of Students (MACCS)
Using the Center’s core values as the foundation, the Center brings together outstanding and diverse students from across the Kentuckiana area to practice strategic service learning and leadership development. As a student-led program, MACCS finds new ways to engage in service-learning as a responsibility, develop healthy peer relationships, participate in leadership development, and gain valuable life skills and professional experience.
UCREW
UCREW is a ground-breaking social enterprise program of the Muhammad Ali Center available to high school students. The program offers a unique opportunity for students to not only learn about social entrepreneurship, but to work in teams to develop an actual social enterprise from start to finish. Students meet twice monthly to explore current issues in their communities and to reflect on ways to combat them through creative business endeavors. By the end of the program, students will have conceptualized, produced, marketed, and launched a small social enterprise business.
Creating Our Future
Designed for middle-and high school age youth, the "Creating Our Future” curriculum consists of six modules, each focusing on a single core principle embodied in the life and work of Muhammad Ali — Respect, Confidence, Conviction, Dedication, Spirituality, and Giving. The aim is to guide young people in an exploration of these six core principles, encourage the incorporation of these values into their lives, and inspire the development of a "life plan” that reflects a positive sense of self, a commitment to community, and preparation for the future.
Daughters of Greatness
The "Daughters of Greatness” breakfast series features prominent women engaged in social philanthropy, activism, and pursuits of justice. The stories and reflections they share are motivational to some people, transformative to others, and inspirational to all. The Ali Center periodically invites these local and international icons to share their stories with the Louisville community. The "Daughters of Greatness" series provides a place for dialogue and discussion on current issues of justice, community engagement, and social movements within the Louisville area and beyond.
Ali Stingrays Swimmer Scholar Program
In 2019, the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC), in partnership with the Trident Swim Foundation (Trident), launched an enrichment program for middle and high school youth. Taking place at Muhammad Ali’s alma mater, Central High School, the Ali Stingrays is an innovative afterschool, swimmer scholar program for underserved, students of color residing primarily in Louisville’s West End. These students enter the program will little to no swimming ability. Through a creative approach that combine athletics and academics, student participants receive daily swimming lessons and academic support, with the goal of every “Ali Stingray” leaving the program college and career ready. In its pilot year, the program is currently serving 10 students from Central High School and 15 students from the W.E.B. DuBois Academy. All programming is provided free of charge to students and families.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Strategic Goal #1: Enhance museum curation, preservation, and exhibits.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Leverage existing education programming, e.g., Character Education, MACCS, and UCREW, to create an implement national and international programs with defined measurable outcomes in Education that include pre-K, K-12, post-secondary, and adult education programming that inspire individuals to achieve their educational goals.
Emphasize the creation of local, national, and international partnerships with other community-based organizations that will help the Center achieve greater impact in our programs areas.
Support our key program areas of education, global citizenship, and gender equality.
Continue to create, refine, and grow the Generation Ali sub-brand using Muhammad Ali's six core principles.
Create programming and engagement opportunities relevant and interesting to multi-generational audiences.
Digitize museum artifacts and archives pertaining to Muhammad's legacy to create a digital archive that makes historical content more accessible to Muhammad Ali researchers, scholars, and the general public.
Capture oral history interviews to be preserved, studied, and shared with the world.
Focus our fundraising efforts locally, nationally, and internationally through donor database expansion.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
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Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center
Board of directorsas of 11/04/2020
Robert Croft
Starbucks
Term: 2020 - 2021
Ralph de Chabert
Brown-Forman Corporation
Ina Bond
River Bend Farm
Robert Croft
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Robert L. Decker
Corporate Finance Associates
Karl Schmitt
Louisville Sports Commission
Gill Holland
Portland Investment Initiative
Ozair Shariff
Stites & Harbison PLLC
Lonnie Ali
Muhammad Ali Enterprises