President Obama is announcing new million dollar commitments including efforts from the likes of the NBA and AT&T towards his “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative on Monday. “My Brother’s Keeper” is a program aimed at helping boys and young men of color find their way down the right path in the life. Find out more about the program after the jump!
As part of the initiative, the NBA has agreed to recruit 25,000 new mentors and to work with specifically at risk students in order to increase attendance and performance in school. AT&T has invested $18 million into the support of mentoring and other education programs as well.
The Emerson Collective, founded by the late Steve Job’s widow Laurene Powell Jobs, is also committing $50 million to collaborate with school districts and educators to launch a competition which will seek the best designs for next generation high schools. How’s that for encouraging young people to go to school? Have them tell educators how they would want to be taught by developing their own plans for education!
Obama will announce the new commitments on Monday during a town hall meeting at an education center in Washington.
