We employ the Whole Child Approach as a Mentoring Program
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Athletics & Beyond has an active Board of Directors that consists of Colorado natives who graduated from Denver Public Schools (DPS) and universities in Colorado. These members serve as our voices since they are from the community and serve their community. All of our board members have children that currently or have attended DPS so they can personally testify to the achievement gaps in the school system and have a stake in making improvements. The Board of Directors of A&B includes 9 members that represent education, business, and sports. A&B recruits young men and women that have experienced the same barriers to graduation and college attendance as the current A&B classes. The ability to relate to each student and their situation is number one on the priority list for all staff, volunteers,s and board of directors. This strategy has proven successful for many years and has allowed for close and trusting relationships between A&B staff and volunteers and the students they serve.
STAFF:
All inquiries contact Narcy Jackson Ph#303-725-0811 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The National Mentoring Partnership is proud to collaborate on President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, a public, private, and philanthropic effort to support boys and young men of color in reaching their full potential. The My Brother’s Keeper Task Force identified mentoring as a critical component of the initiative. As the unifying champion for expanding quality youth mentoring, MENTOR has served as an advisor to inform the task force recommendation to launch a public-private campaign to actively recruit high-quality, sustained mentors for all youth and increase support for the capacity of mentoring programs to deliver impactful outcomes. MENTOR’s volunteer search engine is powering this effort and thousands of individuals have already used this tool on the White House website to look for mentoring opportunities in their communities.
Our program name describes the basis of who we are:
Athletics- to fine tune basic fundamental and overall knowledge of the sport of choice.
& -There is more than being just an athlete.
Beyond- to encourage participants to strive for academic success, volunteerism, and plan for a career beyond playing sports.
High-quality resident-led sports specific clinics and life skills workshops are a gateway to academic achievement, better grades, improved chances of attending college, and success in the labor market. Affordable clinics are especially important for marginalized at-risk youth. These Children are higher achievers in terms of grades and dropout rates, as well as related measures of academic achievement such as homework completion, educational aspirations, and more. Sports specific training provides detailed instructions for success in a controlled environment. Marginalized children rarely receive social & emotional support, national exposure, participate in regional combines, national tournaments, NCAA sponsored clinics, and basic life skills workshops because of financial and geographic disadvantages. We find “Giving our children EXPOSURE to OPPORTUNITY” is vital towards the success of our communities.
High school graduation rates in the Denver County, as reported by the Colorado Department of Education report are extremely low- Denver 67.6 percent of seniors graduated "on time" in the spring of 2017, as opposed to 65 percent in 2016. Denver’s achievement gap is 48% between Black students and white students in CMAS math. In CMAS Reading and writing it is 44% and SAT reading and writing it is 47%. Disturbingly students in grades 7th - 12th dropped out of school and 77% of these dropouts failed one or more semester courses in the 9th-grade students who attend institutions of higher education obtain a wide range of personal, financial, and other lifelong benefits; likewise, taxpayers and society as a whole derive a multitude of direct and indirect benefits when citizens have access to post-secondary education.
Students who attend institutions of higher education obtain a wide range of personal, financial, and other lifelong benefits; likewise, taxpayers and society as a whole derive a multitude of direct and indirect benefits when citizens have access to postsecondary education. Accordingly, uneven rates of participation in higher education across different segments of U.S. society should be a matter of urgent interest not only to the individuals directly affected, but also as a matter of public policy at the federal, state, and local levels. The income gap between high school graduates and college graduates has increased significantly over time. The earnings benefit to the average college graduate is high enough for graduates to recoup both the cost of full tuition and fees and earnings forgone during the college years in a relatively short period of time.
Any college experience produces a measurable benefit when compared with no post-secondary education, but the benefits of completing a bachelor’s degree or higher is significantly greater.
Participants in organized sports are more likely to attend college and to land better jobs with more responsibility and higher pay.
2016 Annual Report
2015 Annual Report
2013 Annual Report
2012 Annual Report
2018 - 100 Men Who Cook Funding Beneficiary (for work in the community with young adults)
2018 Colorado State University football Hometown Hero's Award
2016, 2017 and 2018 - My Brother's Keeper 25 Honoree (Narcy Jackson football, JC Martinez baseball, and Marlene DeLa Rosa North H.S. basketball)
2016 - Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce Non-Profit of the year finalist.
2014 - Angels Award
2014 - Steps to Success Adult Community Service Award
2014 - Steps to Success Youth Community Service Award
2012 - 2015 - Proclamations Girls Empowerment & Life Beyond Sports workshops
2010 - Sprint Youth Community Champion Award (AliJah Jackson)
Our Mailing Address
4990 Nome Street, Unit C
Denver, CO 80239
All inquiries contact Narcy Jackson Ph#720-224-4428 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
