100 Black Men Of Metropolitian Baton Rouge

Health and wellness: the organization's health and wellness goals are to raise awareness, provide access to health care and give health information that will ultimately promote behavior change resulting in a healthier lifestyle. The organization also partners with local medical facilities to offer free health screenings for a myriad of health issues and encourages our community to become proactive in maintaining good health.

Education: the organizations act preparatory program focuses on preparing high school students seeking higher education a means to learn test-taking skills and strategies that can help im-prove their scores on the standardized act test. By improving their test scores, the students can improve their chances in qualifying for the tops opportunity award. The tops award is a state sponsored scholarship for students who score 20 or greater on the act test. This year 147 students participated in the act preparatory program.

Economic empowerment: the organization considers economic empowerment necessary in creating just societies around the world. The organization defines economic empowerment as the ability to be self-determined in creating dreams, pursuing them, and ultimately perpetuating them by establish-ing the mechanisms to sustain generational wealth. The organization sponsors various finan-cial literacy programs that impart the knowledge necessary to create a foundation of wealth creation.