Better Youth is committed to improving the outlook and enjoyment of life for the future of The Youth. Through charitable efforts, using the arts and entertainment, we provide support to help raise awareness for the issues that affect young people today.

We inspire the youth using arts & entertainment. Through creativity we help children to feel better about themselves. Our creative programs are designed to inspire hope and to target self-awareness and self-esteem issues that often serve as catalysts to the noticeable issues that affect at risk youth today. Our objective is to improve the sense of self and being so that goals and academic success can be achieved. The programs we develop use creativity to help the youth focus on their uniqueness and inborn strengths. With this focus we work together to target solutions and coping strategies for many of the problems that affect them.

• In Los Angeles, we recently sponsored four students to attend a live audience taping of Disney's THAT'S SO RAVEN TV show. The students got to meet the cast, take pictures and get autographs and participate in a pizza party!
• In New York, We recently held a summer benefit honoring acclaimed music producers Teddy Riley and DJ Premier. Mr. Riley has made an in-kind donation of much needed music equipment for our proposed after school music and film workshop in Brooklyn.
• We have facilitated poetry and drama workshops for the New York City Housing Authority and have organized holiday and black history performance poetry and music events for the children and youth. With funding, We are planning to launch our Building Block's program in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Harlem working in conjunction with NYCHA.
• We are partnered with the Ronald McDonald House of NYC where we host performance benefits for children suffering from cancer.
• We have worked inside The Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School with another non-profit organization, Add Joy To Learning, helping to organize talent showcases that help to build self-esteem and self-confidence. In June of 2002, Better Youth helped to organize a talent showcase and educational panel that featured various music industry executives. It was co-sponsored by Broadcast Music Inc.We will support another showcase of young talent this fall on Sept. 16th, 2003.
• In November of 2002, we joined forces with Hot 97 Hip Hop Has Heart Foundation, Team Roc/New York Mission Society and Ear To Da Streets in sponsoring a music industry charity basketball Game in Harlem.
• In May of 2002, we co-sponsored a benefit called Music of Choice for young performers. The event was sponsored by Black Events Central, JP Morgan Chase and Power 105.1 FM. Our organization was profiled for a youth television show called The Verge which aired in Holland.
• We have received contributions from the Charles Lafitte Foundation, The Louis Graff Foundation, HBO and JP Morgan Chase for our efforts.