BARON JAY FOUNDATION

1) To build good character development in our youth beneficiaries by enhancing life-skills development in self-motivation, self esteem, and anger management; awareness of health and psycho social issues relevant to their everyday lives; academic knowledge and skills; general preparedness for the job market; financial literacy; and opportunities for professional career training in specific industries.
2) To educate young people about the impact of multimedia on the public at large, including disenfranchised groups, in relation to local and world affairs; and to give them the professional tools to responsibly use media in peer-to-peer education and community outreach in order to elevate public consciousness about social responsibilities in assisting under served populations.
3) To sponsor community programs, events, and public conversations — especially peer driven activities hosted “by youth for youth" –that empower disadvantaged youth participants.
4) To hold workshops and classes, and to provide referrals to internship, apprenticeship and mentoring opportunities for participants potentially interested in professional careers in media and entertainment that give them exposure to careers in these fields.
5) To promote digital education and technology transfer on both domestic and international levels to help improve the lives of people living in low-income, undeserved communities of the developing world, including, but not limited to, countries in Sub Saharan Africa.

Program Initiatives for Youth Empowerment
• To promote age-appropriate and culturally competent health education and healthy habits in disadvantaged youth who may be at increased risk for HIV/AIDS; chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and cancer; and violence, including domestic and date violence, and gang activity. To give a youth participants a platform for understanding health in practical terms and in ways that relate to their everyday lives.

• To give youth beneficiaries an interactive platform for understanding the dynamics of relationships, and strategies for cultivating respectful, harmonious, and positive relationships with friends, family, teachers, coaches, co-workers, employers, and others.

• To give youth participants information on, and exposure to, careers that are potentially personally interesting and financially rewarding. To assist them in discovering job possibilities and in developing the skills needed to successfully enter a specific industry.

• To expose youth participants to careers in the film entertainment and media industries that are potentially personally interesting and financially rewarding.

• To introduce youth beneficiaries to the varied job-related applications of computer technology. To refer them to nearby classes and workshops offering free or low-cost training in basic, intermediate, and advanced computer skills.

• To teach youth participants the fundamentals of financial literacy. To help them develop a rational “how-to" plan for budgeting, spending, saving and investing in the immediate and long-term future that maximizes their likelihood of economic security over a lifetime.

• To co-host, with Operation Hope, the “Banking On Our Future Financial Literacy Program" in order to teach and inform youth about our banking and monetary system. www.operationhope.org

• To motivate student to study and appreciate school and academics through our “Learn and Earn Coach Workout" by paying them to study, and to appreciate school and academics.

• To co-sponsor the Read For Literacy Book-A-Thon Tour “Battle of the Minds Game Show."
Initiatives for Global Development
• To provide local communities with innovative poverty-reducing interventions that utilize “information and communication technologies for development" (ICT4D). To provide interdisciplinary and cross-industry technology transfer to the developing world that increases literacy, helps close the global digital gap, and improves socio-economic conditions in local communities and their larger societies.

Ongoing Programs

The Founder of the Baron Jay Family Foundation, Mr. Baron Jay Littleton, is a screen actor, producer, entrepreneur, humanitarian and philanthropist known for his seminal youth empowerment programs. Mr. Littleton is the author of the Little Black and Brown Book Series on Black and Latino Achievement, a celebration of the historically important contributions of both African American and Hispanic inventors to society. He is the creator of “Book Dealers Not Drug Dealers," a national program in which the Baron Jay Family Foundation teams up with local urban school systems to use books as an alternative to selling cookies and candy in fundraising campaigns. The Baron Jay Family Foundation is also a co-sponsor of groundbreaking edu-tainment such as “Battle of the Minds" – a unique board game about Black History.
Educational and Training Programs

New Programs

Our new flagship program, Career Horizons – Here and Now, is a series of peer-driven, mentor guide interactive workshops. The goal of this series is to give young people up-to-date information on current and emerging good job possibilities. By listening to prominent representatives of different industries – and in some cases visiting workplaces onsite — participants can discover for themselves if they are interested in a certain vocation or profession, and if it is a good fit for them. The Career Horizons modules introduce our workshop beneficiaries to employment possibilities in a wide range of jobs in high demand today.

Our proactive approach engages participants in workshops and classrooms, and also in hands-on laboratory settings and field experiences. Our workshops feature the best of academic, inspirational, and real world learning situations. Our mentors and facilitators help motivate participants to take responsibility for improving their environment and for transforming their own lives.
United States

• Knowledge Paths to Personal Success

Age-appropriate and culturally competent instruction and mentoring in the following subjects:

– Health Education

– Relationship & Family

– Job Possibilities & Career Choices

– Financial Literacy

– Computer Literacy •Entertain-Media 101

An innovative program to introduce participants to filmmaking and technical training for careers in media and entertainment. It combines entertainment and media arts instruction, including English and language arts, with career goal development.
Global Development

•Malabo Computer Learning Center (Malabo, Equatorial Guinea)

Check updates on the new nonprofit Malabo Computer Training Center we are opening in the small nation of Equatorial Guinea in West Central Africa. This project falls under our global initiative to promote computer training in local communities in the developing world.

RICHES TO WEALTH
FILMMAKER ARTS PROGRAM
HEALTHY MAINTENANCE LIFE STYLE
CADDY ACADEMY
CREATING BOOK DEALERS NOT DRUG DEALERS
STEAM
ANNUAL TRAILBLAZER AWARD LUNCHEON
LISTEN & LEARN SATURDAYS
FILMMAKER TRAINING CENTER
SCHOLARSHIP & EMPLOYMENT AND MORE TO COME.....