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Photo Diary: Sonic Tags BSSWA

By @sjwisneski: “Had a great time today at a high school in the Bronx with SONIC, teaching the kids how to properly vandali… I mean proper spray can control. #streetart #graffiti #bronx #spraypaint #art #artist #teacher” #SchoolMurals #BSSWA #ThriveCollective via Instagram http://ift.tt/1Iq3uoF

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Photo Diary: #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday #ThriveCollective Our 100% Guarantee 100% of your personal giving supports arts education and school based mentoring. Give today. ThriveCollective.org via Instagram http://ift.tt/1ImMG23

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Meet Dr. Terry Greene, Music Director

Watch Music Director Dr. Terry Greene resurrect the concert band at I.S. 117 in the Bronx. Dr. Greene’s Mantra: Instruments are made to be played! From his bio: Dr. Terry Greene II holds masters and doctoral degrees from SUNY Stony Brook in Trombone and Music Performance, and has served as an adjunct professor of Jazz…

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School Murals on WABC

Thank you, Joe Torres and Tiempo at WABC 7, for celebrating students and schools that thrive! Guests: Jeremy Del Rio and Emmanuel Delgado Original Air Date: Sunday, March 29, 2015 Part 2

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Manhood Essentials

The Brotherhood’s third School Mentors session yesterday at Harlem Village Academy included fingerprinting fun for the mentors, and the introduction of our Manhood Essentials core values of the Brotherhood: Reject Passivity Embrace Responsibility Serve Humbly Lead Courageously Love Sacrificially These values frame the goals of the entire program, including group talks, life skills, professional networking, and…

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The Mentor’s Heartbeat

Meet Gregory Moore, the program coordinator of the Brotherhood Fellowship Mentoring Program at Harlem Village Academy, and hear why twenty business executives are mentoring high school boys in Harlem. The Brotherhood meets for dinner the first and third Tuesday of every month, and individual pairs meet offline in alternating weeks. Our flagship School Mentors program,…

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Meet Zanab and Josh

In 2015, Jeffrey Deitsch commissioned street art legend DAZE for the Coney Art Walls exhibition. DAZE collaborated with students from SchoolMurals.org to create a signature piece. Enjoy the “Under the Sea” School Mural portfolio here.

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Expanding to Ridgewood

Our School Mentors programs are expanding from Harlem and Inwood in Manhattan, to Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, Queens, in partnership with Cru High School. We have proudly supported Cru’s area director Danny Cruz in adapting the School Mentors program to fit the particular needs of the freshman class at Grover Cleveland. He launched “All…

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Award Winning Club Returns

The award-winning School Murals after-school club at IS 117 Joseph Wade Academy in the Bronx returns for a second year tomorrow, November 10, 2015 from 2:30 – 5 pm. The club, which won the District 9 award for Best After School Art program last spring, anchors a campus wide collaboration between IS 117 and The Young Women’s…

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