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Maximum Balance Foundation is a social enterprise providing mentoring programs for middle and high school youth in the United States area between the ages of 14-17 years old.
The program forms partnerships with local school districts and the juvenile court systems, to recruit young people for volunteer and mentoring opportunities, and provide five key resources to each participant.
The resources are Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Effective Education, and Opportunities to Help Others (must complete at least 130 volunteer hours per year)
This path has been awarded both local and national recognition since 1996, and has become a recognized source of 65% high school graduation, 80% college enrollment, and 100% college graduation rates from students who complete our four-year program.
Our Daily Bread
- An Ordinary GuySteve was just an ordinary guy. He quietly served in a church I attended years ago. He helped prepare communion, shoveled the church sidewalks in the winter, and mowed the lawn in the summer. He spent time with teenage boys who had no fathers in the home. I often heard him telling people at church in his quiet way how good the Lord was to him. During prayer […]
21 Laws of Leadership | 21 Days of Success
- An Ordinary Guy February 22, 2012Steve was just an ordinary guy. He quietly served in a church I attended years ago. He helped prepare communion, shoveled the church sidewalks in the winter, and mowed the lawn in the summer. He spent time with teenage boys who had no fathers in the home. I often heard him telling people at church in his quiet way how good the Lord was to him. During prayer […]Anne Cetas
- Slacker? February 21, 2012While studying the book of Proverbs in my small-group Bible study, our leader suggested that we change the description of a lazy person from a sluggard to a slacker (6:6,9). Ah, now he was speaking my lingo. I immediately started thinking of all the people I consider to be slackers. […]Cindy Hess Kasper
- The Remedy For Fear February 20, 2012In his first inaugural speech in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the newly elected president of the US, addressed a nation that was still reeling from the Great Depression. Hoping to ignite a more optimistic outlook regarding that economic crisis, he declared, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!” […]Joe Stowell
Leadership Strategies
- Level Up, Week 7: The PinnacleWelcome to Week 7 of our group study of The 5 Levels of Leadership. This week we’re studying Level 5, The Pinnacle. The difficulty with teaching this level is that Level 5 leaders are just not very common. Until now, you’ve spent your time nudging group members to reach for the level being discussed. But [...]Originally posted at: John Maxwell on Leadership […]
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