In the midst of crisis, how do we support one another and our communities to grow?
As developmentalists, we need to keep pushing this question to the fore. Please take a moment to read this opinion piece by Antoine Joyce, Vice President and City Leader, All Stars Project of Dallas: Dallas, we need to have some hard conversations about race in order to heal.
Our young people need our support, and in times like these, All Stars continues the hard work of Building Community, Spreading Opportunity and Creating Hope.
We hope you can join us on June 17th for our Summer of Development gathering. Our community — the All Stars community — must continue to lead. And in order to move our country forward, we need to dig deep and find new ways to give our humanity and our resources.
Together we are creating a multiracial community that brings together people who are black, brown, white, poor, rich, young, old, liberal, conservative, gay, straight and non-binary. We
create conversations, relationships, environments, where people who are very different from one another build together — and see each other.
So, join us on June 17th. We will thank you — our partners — for investing in our youth, for giving them community, opportunity, and hope. And we will share why development will be more important than ever, as our country moves through this crisis.
All of us need to give more — of our time, our heart, our wealth, our passion for humanity; we need to listen more; and we need to develop more than ever, to move our country forward. Thank you for being our partners.
– Gloria Strickland, Chief Youth and Community Development Officer, ASP
