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Creating Programs is like devising a War Strategy, and Jesus once said no man goes to war without first counting the cost. Last year we as a Neighborhood, Community, and City lost over 30 School Aged Children to Gun Violence. That number looks to repeat itself this year if we as "Concerned Citizens" don't take a stand.

Despite valiant efforts by arts education advocates over the last several decades, and real gains in arts education policy and practice, the current reality is that the visual arts education that most American children receive in schools consists primarily of tacky craft activities presented to them by classroom teachers. I actually have a great fondness for many of these activities, but that has more to do with lingering nostalgia for childhood than it does with aesthetic education.

While on a trip to Washington, D.C., I paid a visit to the offices of the U.S. Department of Education. Special structures had been built around the entrances to the building- replicas of the archetypal “Little Red Schoolhouse”. I later found out that these had been installed to protect government employees from falling masonry, but why were these particular wooden pieces of nostalgia chosen to grace the doorways to these large, gothic, stone buildings?

Hi Everyone!Today Kids Off The Block released it's first ever video in response to the senseless violence among our youth. While we pray and provide support to our teens, we believe there is much more that needs to be done. There is not ONE SOLUTION, BUT MANY SOLUTIONS! This video touches on some of the growing problems and hopes to shed some light on the "real" world in our neighborhoods.

Next week, I have the distinct honor of attending a Stanford Graduate School of Business seminar; Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations.  In preparation for the course we are assigned homework (something I tried not to do that much of in school let alone now that I have a real job), and the homework consists of several books, articles, and case studies all exploring the concepts of strategy and its multiple parts.