The 100 Black Men of Austin, Inc. partnered with the PGA Tour and First Tee to support young men of color to learn the game of golf. The 100 sponsored young men to attend a 12 week curriculum of golf instruction with life skills and healthy habits.
The 100 donated funds to LifeWorks and Central Texas Food Bank during the ice storm to help homeless teens and those without food during/after the ice storm that ripped through the state of Texas.
The 100 Black Men of Austin, Inc. has started a pilot to introduce high school students to investment and stocks. The Stock Market Game is an online simulation of the global capital markets and engages students in grades 4-12 in the world of economics, investing and personal finance with the goal of preparing them for financially independent futures. Participants are given a virtual $100,000 to invest in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds over a 10 – week period (January – April). Played as a team of 3-5 members, students develop and enhance skills in leadership, management, research, problem solving, and team-building. Charles Schwab and NFP partnered with the 100 to share their expertise and provide mentoring resources along the way.
The 100 and some of the students were featured on Fox News Austin.
https://www.fox7austin.com/video/908084
The 100 Black Men of Austin kicked off the 2021 year by volunteering at the Central Texas Food Bank Warehouse. Members worked the assembly line to box up pallets of food to be distributed. 5 hour later, 15 pallets, 630 boxes of food to provide a total of 15,000 meals.
Due to COVID-19, The 100 Black Men of Austin, Inc. had to pivot their voter registration efforts. To keep our members safe, we partnered with Defend Our Future to create a contactless effort to increase voter registration across the state of Texas and created a voter registration PSA that ran on local tv stations. A direct mailer of 61,000 pre-printed voter registration forms were mailed in July in hopes of a 5% (3,000+) return. As of December 1st, we safely registered over 5,500 voters. Of the 61,000 voter registration forms, 21% (12,810) registered and voted in the 2020 elections.
13 of our members were also registered Voter Deputy Registrars (VDRs) and volunteered in Travis County to increase in-person voter registration.
Voter PSA