America Needs
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What it Takes (WIT) is a national outreach initiative that connects highly successful minority entrepreneurs, scientists, professional athletes, businessmen, military and medical professionals with hundreds of African-American and Latino males at risk of dropping out of high school. WIT fills a motivational void by having these high profile men, many of whom have struggled through the same paths as the target audience (14-18 year olds), reach back and tell them "What it Takes".
INTRODUCING WHAT IT TAKES E-MENTORING!!!
Building upon the success of the WIT Symposiums and connections, we have partnered with United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania's (UWSEPA) Center for Youth Development (CYD) to establish an e-mentoring component to the program Funded by a grant from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
E-mentoring is a caring, structured relationship focused on the needs of the mentored participants that uses technology to connect people across time and/or distance.
