Leadership Foundation 102220

Cody and Erica talk on the phone with Damon Mazza, the Director of Development at the Lexington Leadership Foundation about the foundation and its initiatives.

Lexington leadership foundation was c1 3 to engage leaders in gates leaders in lexington to tackle tough issues ... here in our city ... joining us by phone today to tell us more.

His record development damon is a ... welcome and thank you so much for joining us.

We appreciate it ... well ... so we can briefly went over to give us an understanding and overview of ... leadership condition what is due ... yeah great ... basically the gerber umbrella ... with ... the ... initiative underneath that umbrella ... quickly, better known by the initiative ... and those are ... the march program to the one-to- one mentoring ... room ... kids in the barn restoration of ... obra hundred and better ... individually with a mentor ... program called fatherhood initiative ... to engage others into the live ... of their children.

The following ... will curriculum-based program ... and ... they learn healthy response will ... techniques that really your child ... in a positive way ... .

We have a third initiative we are ... not propositions but not ... earlier.

So every third initiative ... ... , which is the physical state of.

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And really the program.

The ... features like ... rule ... rooms reading program called letting ... politically ... , our education ... and several other things are all out of that ... and you really reach a lot of ... with these different initiatives talk about maybe how the pandemic has impacted you like ... that's right ... , go ... on a ... on an average year will ... 5000 oh with ... 70 different partners ... 50 volunteers, but ... obviously because the things are very good right now so ... what we can do and one of the first things we thought ... was the immediate ... beauty the individual.

So a lot of the ... served ... are in the service industry immediately affected by job law ... of many of the kids ... were free or reduced lunch so ... you need ... beginning at the end of march through july ... served over 25,000 meal ... out of the window cultural ... up and delivery ... .

We also with ... mentors in a virtual after checking in on the ... another school.

In fact we have about 20 ... that were serving out a window along with volunteers ... helping them ... through the clock ... assisting them that way ... what's the biggest weight ... for viewers and folks can help ... i tell you ... .work ... check about social media well were starting ... beginning on the monday the 20 ... 10 days of impactful sharing an video ... story ... of individual ... and they make in our community and how the volunteer look at postman one of those stores eac day on social media, people can respond ... to the story ... on our website by volunteering ... that he ... is financially and ... in those stores again ... on ... what an awesome idea ... .

I think that you're chatting with ... today and frolic to ... great, thank you for the opportunity