I am so inspired by reading your bio. I am from Mobile, Alabama. I live in a area where underpriviledge youth are in total chaos. An 18 yr old boy who never been in trouble just shot and killed someone because he was afraid. We have children 11 yrs old that smoking marijuana. I am trying to get a summer basketball league started from ages 16 and under girls and boys in the YBOA League. I am trying to recruit coaches. I place to pratice but most of all financial funding. Do you have any suggestions or words of encourgagement..
"To combine sports, education and entertainment and provide a program to encourage and uplift youth in underprivileged areas" is such a worthy initiative. Congrats Andre on making a real difference in the lives of youth in Indiana. There is nothing greater than serving others. You are saving lives by providing a positive experience for young people where they can hope, dream, and believe in themselves. Great job.
Jennifer Azzi
Featured Changemakers Commentator
NBA and WNBA Community Ambassador
I would like to thank you for your comment and your encouraging words, I read your bio and I am encouraged by what you are doing for the community as well. It would be great to have the oppurtunity to further discuss ways that I may be able to benefit you and your mission in the community. If you are interested, you may contact me at andrestennette@yahoo.com. Thank you again and good luck with your career.
I wish that I had possessed your sense of social consciousness at fifteen, Andre. Apparently, you're a long-time social entrepreneur, too. Your goal to take basketball and use it to encourage young, black men to consider college and the scholarships that may be available to them is commendable. Of course, the fun dimension of the sport should never be diminished either, right? And focusing young people's attention on higher education ought to take place regardless of whether there's basketball-scholarship money available, too. After all, if we all had to depend solely on athletic scholarships to attend college, many of us would never have made it.
Steve Byars
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
I am so inspired by reading your bio. I am from Mobile, Alabama. I live in a area where underpriviledge youth are in total chaos. An 18 yr old boy who never been in trouble just shot and killed someone because he was afraid. We have children 11 yrs old that smoking marijuana. I am trying to get a summer basketball league started from ages 16 and under girls and boys in the YBOA League. I am trying to recruit coaches. I place to pratice but most of all financial funding. Do you have any suggestions or words of encourgagement..
Thanks,
Rose M Andrews
Mobile Regulators
"To combine sports, education and entertainment and provide a program to encourage and uplift youth in underprivileged areas" is such a worthy initiative. Congrats Andre on making a real difference in the lives of youth in Indiana. There is nothing greater than serving others. You are saving lives by providing a positive experience for young people where they can hope, dream, and believe in themselves. Great job.
Jennifer Azzi
Featured Changemakers Commentator
NBA and WNBA Community Ambassador
I would like to thank you for your comment and your encouraging words, I read your bio and I am encouraged by what you are doing for the community as well. It would be great to have the oppurtunity to further discuss ways that I may be able to benefit you and your mission in the community. If you are interested, you may contact me at andrestennette@yahoo.com. Thank you again and good luck with your career.
Andre Stennette
CEO/President of Play It 4ward
I wish that I had possessed your sense of social consciousness at fifteen, Andre. Apparently, you're a long-time social entrepreneur, too. Your goal to take basketball and use it to encourage young, black men to consider college and the scholarships that may be available to them is commendable. Of course, the fun dimension of the sport should never be diminished either, right? And focusing young people's attention on higher education ought to take place regardless of whether there's basketball-scholarship money available, too. After all, if we all had to depend solely on athletic scholarships to attend college, many of us would never have made it.
Steve Byars
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California