Helping Empower Youth Incorporated

Helping Empower Youth’s mission is to provide an opportunity to inspire, motivate and mobilize young people to take action that changes their world.

Youth should always have the opportunity to solve for challenges in their communities utilizing resources available to them. When presented with options they tend to choose the better of what is available. 

 What we have learned is that doing good costs. Your donations and financial support is an investment in the lives of young people in Atlanta as they work to influence their global network.   

We don’t believe that our young people need to sit and wait for the leadership baton to be passed to them; it’s time for them to start running and take it! HEY! was created to cultivate, encourage and mentor young people to identify and meet the needs of their ever changing world. With this in mind, HEY! focuses on three initiatives to address those needs: Sport For Good S.T.E.A.M., the EMPOWERED! Leadership Academy,  and the HEY! Let's Read! Book Festival for Children of Color. 

In addition, we are adamant about meeting the needs of the young people serve as those needs arise.  While being mission driven is important to an organization, being able to pivot based on what our youth need is paramount to the success of HEY! As a result, our current needs based initiative is focused on providing alternatives and options for the "ATL Water Boyz" while helping to change the narrative of young black male youth in the city of Atlanta.