Economic Justice – Promotion of solutions to economic inequality.
We seek to educate people and urge them to break the cycle of poverty for women and children worldwide.
Workforce Investment: Ask Executive Director has served as head of the Education and Professional Development Committee for the San Francisco Youth Employment Coalition.
We help build strategies to address the apparent disconnect between Education, Youth Development and Workforce Development. Reconnecting America's youth to the emerging workforce.
Financial Literacy: Ask Academy provides Financial Literacy Workshops which teach the youth about Business and Investing. After assessing the youth's knowledge, skills, abilities and interests, Ask mentors help the youth develop Business Plans.
ASK youth receive Group Mentoring through Classroom presentations and Career Field Trips and eventually One To One Mentoring with a professional in their career interest.
The mentors work with the youth up to age 26.
RULES
1. Engage youth in Creative and Progressive, Social Action and motivate them to make positive
life changes.
2. Incubate Micro-Business and develop youth into balanced individuals who are both Artists and
Business owners.
3. Provide training in Technological Literacy and application to further amplify and enhance
Community Building.
4. Utilize Multi-Media Communication to improve society from an artistic, political, economic, and
social perspective.
5. Advocate and promote digital media and print media as a unifying vehicle for people from different cultural,ethnic, and economic backgrounds.
Collaboration for Sustainable Change:
We have a strong network of individuals and organizations that work with us such as Seneca Center, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Ripple Effects, Walmart.com, Zero Divide, University of San Francisco Upward Bound, The National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC), The Community Justice Network for Youth (CJNY), The Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center (PCRC), New America Media and Daly City Peninsula Partnership Collaborative.