FOUS Youth Development Services

Programs

1. #28. The organization served a total of 336 youth through its programming and events. 1. GEMMS Girls Mentoring Program Primary Program Served directly 35 girls. FOUS operates its flagship GEMMS Girls Mentoring Program serving 35 seventh- and eighth-grade girls. The program is run during school hours by an organization staff person. Each grade participates in its own weekly 1-hour mentoring session offered from October through May 28 weeks. Core activities include content-driven lessons in social-emotional learning and life skills education and time for structured engagement activities that build connection and confidence. Each session includes healthy snacks with at least two items provided per student. The program concludes with recognition events including progress awards certificates of completion and end-of-program celebrations. Here is a summary of key numbers: 56 total mentoring sessions 56 total program hours delivered 1,960 student contact hours and 1,960 snack items provided. The GEMMS Double Dutch Afterschool Program is an extension of our mentoring program and serves girls in sixth through eighth grades. FOUS offers this program once a week for one hour during after…

   $8,286 spent
   64% of program spending

2. #29 Body Confident Athletes Initiative. The Body Confident Athletes Initiative extends the mentoring and Double Dutch programs. It is a three-week curriculum design specifically for girl athletes. Eighty-five percent of our girls participate in at least two school sports groups. The curriculum covered body talk body awareness in sport and listening to the body. They were integrated into the weekly mentoring sessions. Each session provided one hour of student contact time plus a hot lunch. With 31 students over three weeks the initiative delivered 93 total contact hours. The program concluded with a Shopping Day where each girl received about 12 sports and body care items valued at $150.

   $2,480 spent
   19% of program spending

3. #30 This funding supports FOUS core youth programs: GEMMS Mentoring and GEMMS Double Dutch and all 35 participants. FOUS also provided limited hardship assistance to a program family experiencing acute financial distress. A $300 Uber Ride & Eats gift card was donated. Throughout the year we have supplied ongoing hygiene products to participants and covered essential program materials including journals school supplies arts and crafts materials weekly healthy snacks occasional take-home meals awards raffle items and program gear. Here is a summary of items purchased to ensure adequate resources to learn and grow: printed program activity guide for 35 girls valued $117; snacks 444;craft sets 29 300 items;body products 35; ink and colored paper.

   $1,272 spent
   10% of program spending

4. #31 Other program services - Through community engagement funding the organization supported the end-of-school celebration Juneteenth event with ice cream for 300 students. The cost from this fund was $800; see double-dutch. Also partnered with local community organizations for the annual Block Club & Resource Fair Celebration. Over 200 people attended. We directly impacted 59 youth with snack bags each with four items totaling 354 items. The organization also purchased raffle gifts: a skateboard sports gear journals coloring books puzzles and games totaling 50 items. Combined value: $195.77.

   $995 spent
   8% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,033.