Monday, December 15, 2008
Life Pieces To Masterpieces Featured in December 2008 Washingtonian Magazine

Life Pieces to Masterpieces “We are creating Renaissance men—gentlemen, scholars, artists, athletes,” says Mary Brown, executive director of Life Pieces to Masterpieces. The organization serves 150 boys and young men from east of the Anacostia River in DC. They do painting, storytelling, rap, and poetry—plus homework, sports, leadership training, and meditation—up to seven days a week, three to five hours a day. Almost none gets in trouble with the law or has children before marriage. In the past two years, all of the program’s high-school seniors graduated and enrolled in postsecondary education. How to help: Tutor a boy in the homework center or help chaperone field trips. Giving: $25 covers two weeks of snacks for one boy; $1,000 pays for one young man to participate in the program three days a week for a year. 5002 Hayes St., NE; 202-399-7703; lifepieces.org.

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Read more on the web: http://www.washingtonian.com/print/articles/6/174/10561.html.