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Our Goal
LPTM’s continuing goal is to nurture, embrace, encourage, and elevate African American boys and young men.  Daily participation in LPTM’s artistic, academic, spiritual, and mentoring activities help turn the many challenges in the lives of these boys into opportunities for success, self-reliance, and resiliency.
Our Accomplishments
Life Pieces to Masterpieces has earned various awards and received recognition for the quality of its program and the impact the organization is making on the community.

LPTM has:

  • Received the Lend a Hand Award presented by Al Roker and the Today Show. This award included two feature presentations on the nationally syndicated morning broadcast
  • Completed a four-year outcomes study conducted by Outcomes Hope, Inc.
  • Successfully piloted LPTM Express: Destination Curriculum at several satellite locations, with further expansion planned
  • Received the Best Catalogue Art Work Award from the Catalogue for Philanthrophy
  • Received a Youth Leadership Award from the DC Alliance for Youth
  • Received the Ossie Davis Award for Spirited Arts Activism
  • Created the LPTM Express Training Series, a series of workshops for other youth, youth services providers, and the philanthropic community
  • Received the 2006 Tony Taylor Award from the Cultural Alliance for Greater Washington. This award is presented to an individual or organization that has provided significant assistance to artists in the Washington, DC metropolitan region
  • Featured in a segment on WETA TV 26, an affiliate of the PBS Television Network (view it here)
  • Received the 2006 Youth Award presented by the Leadership of Greater Washington
  • Honored with a 2007 Washington DC Economic Partnership Innovators Award. Recipient Mary Brown, Executive Director of Life Pieces to Masterpieces, was selected from among various individuals across all segments of the community recognized for rethinking what's possible and achieving it.
  • Featured in a front page article of The Washington Post on Thanksgiving Day 2007. The article was titled "From Modest Heroes, Major Deeds" (read it here)

Empirical Outcomes
  • Over 90% of LPTM participants have not become involved in the juvenile justice system or fathered children
  • Approximately 90% have shown improved behavior at home and in school
  • 75% have significantly increased their overall GPA
  • LPTM Apprentices have created over 1000 pieces of art over the past 11 years, exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, including The World Bank, Children's Hospital, the Smithsonian, and charitable foundations throughout Washington, DC. and FIDDEM in Paris, France
Anecdotal Outcomes
  • Improved family/peer relationships (includes conflict resolution)
  • Improved communication skills
  • Improved self-esteem
  • Improved decision-making skills
  • Expanded vision of possibilities for the future
  • Increased parental involvement