Elite Dreams Foundation Scholarship Fund

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The Elite Dreams Foundation through its scholarship fund is the platform we use to provide awards to our students in the name of our scholarship partners. Our goal is to support students facing challenges as many are working (sometimes multiple jobs) while being committed to maintaining their overall grade point average. These students are prime targets for early withdrawal. We strive to provide financial supports that cover basics such as meals, books, supplies, phone bills, emergency transportation expenses and other exigencies of everyday life. These little expenses can sometimes create barriers so large that some students find themselves unable to stay motivated, committed and engaged in their studies. This scholarship fund will make a big difference in both large and small ways that can mean the difference between a student staying in school or out searching for more work just to keep going. This creates a downward spiral in grades, morale and life trajectory. Small dollars do make a big difference. The scholarship recipients of our programs exemplify standards of excellence as demonstrated by their desire and commitment to b-great!.

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Elite Dreams Foundation Entrepreneurship Program

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Our unique entrepreneurship program has benefited many Elite Sports Atlanta professional athletes who are successful players on both domestic and international teams. Our program combines a synergistic blend of language arts with math components. Students learn important soft skills that teach them how to dress and conduct themselves successfully based upon the context; job interviewing do’s and don’ts; public speaking basics; and, foundations of financial literacy covering investment basics, money management, banking, budgeting. We have partnered with several local and regional service providers with track records of providing high impact programming and projects relevant for the complex and unpredictable situations youth and young adults can expect to be exposed to. Entrepreneurship fosters the skills to hone and fine tune of team building, critical thinking skills, establishing shared goals and commitments and creative ideation and networking. Youth who participate in our programs and projects exemplify these traits and explore and develop new ones along their journey to b-great!.

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Elite Dreams Foundation Dreams Summit

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The Elite Dreams Summit is a fun youth-led forum which fuses performing arts with peer mentoring and coaching. While it is structured, led and directed by Elite Dreams staff, participants set the pace and content that drives the activity. Elite Dreams Summit is one of our most highly requested and well attended programs. Youth are craving opportunities to have their voices heard in safe and open spaces, to get their questions answered by leaders they trust and respect and blocks of comradery to share ideas and visions for their futures with each other.

Our speaker series is housed in this element of our programming as well allows participants from all program to hear and interact with our guest speakers. This highly interactive environment serves a duel purpose in that it places our partners in front of the youth who will utilize their services and products while simultaneously serving as an example of how to speak in a public setting. The synergistic openings during these interactions cannot be overemphasized. It is a strong platform that demonstrates in very real ways the importance of goal
setting and the results of following through on commitments and strategically and thoughtfully seizing opportunities as they arise.

The most exciting element of the Dreams Summit for both youth and our community is the opportunity to watch youth perform their talents. These performances range from spoken word to singing, to rapping and dance. All youth are given an opportunity to perform provided they meet the rules and guidelines of the program. We do not limit their talents and are open to new and innovative ideas for youth to share and express themselves as individuals and as groups to b-great!.

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