We have been recognized over the last 12 years for providing some of the most innovative and highly successful practices in the nation. We have earned national recognition for our model. We were featured on the Oprah Winfrey show and awarded the Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network Use Your Life Award; awarded the national Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award which recognized us for “outstanding leadership”; received the Fund for the City of New York’s Union Square Award and Special Achievement Award”; been awarded the Abyssinian Development Corporation Harlem Renaissance Award; received Brown University’s inaugural Alumni Association Young Public Service Award; and received the Community Works Long Walk to Freedom Youth Activism Award, recognizing us as “national civil rights leaders of the new millennium.

In Bermuda we trained a group that has taken the name, Bermuda Brotherhood, and was created to respond to what has been deemed an explosion of violence on the island among young men. We connected this group to a 400K grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies, and they hired one of our youth founding members and alumni (Brown University, '07) as one of their youth workers

In 2007 we purchased the land adjacent to our existing building. In our present site we have maximized the usage of every square inch within our building. We have no space for expansion of staff or youth services. The new structure will provide classrooms, expanded performance and recreational space, staff offices, improved technology center, and a variety of other resources, allowing us to service a greater number of members, to service our existing members more comprehensively and to be a place where community meetings, performances and trainings can occur. We envision a green building, built according to prevailing environmental standards, and one that incorporates into its vision the adjacent Green Thumb community garden that is being transformed into an environmental education center, botany space, and play area.

We need capital dollars for this project, we also support to sustain our programming and extend our national trainings.

Oprah Winfrey: "The Brotherhood/Sister Sol is using their passion to uplift and inspire a next generation though our extraordinary work that creates leaders and a sanctuary for children where they can develop a higher vision for themselves."

Congressman Charles B. Rangel: “They play a critically important role working with the youth who are most at risk."

Danny Glover: “What brought me to The Brotherhood/Sister Sol is that this organization is attempting to find relevant solutions to the desperate situations facing our young people in this community. The services they provide are invaluable. They are a significant island in a vast sea.”

Our present major funders include, Charles Hayden Foundation, Citi, Clark Foundation, Deutsche Bank, Douglas B. Gardner Foundation, Depart of Youth and Community Development, Elton John Foundation, Ford Foundation, New York City Council Member Robert Jackson, Levitt Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation New York Foundation, New York Women’s Foundation, Reginald Lewis Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisers, Scherman Foundation, Shippy Foundation, St. James Church, Surdna Foundation, Theodore Luce Charitable Trust, Tiger Foundation, Twenty-First Century Foundation, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Our revenue last fiscal year was 1.4 million dollars. 78% was from Foundations; 10% from special events; 8% from individuals; 3% from government; 1% fee for service. This year we expect to greatly raise the percentage from special events and from government sources.

In 1995, the brought the program back to Harlem, incorporating the organization and beginning their work at Jason's high school alma mater in East Harlem. They recognized the obstacles young men face growing up in poverty, and they believed that the creation of a strong, supportive community could help youth overcome the challenges of circumstance and succeed in life. For three years the program served solely young men. In 1998, Dr. Susan Wilcox came on board as a third Co-Director, joining Jason and Khary in the Directors Circle (the leadership team which provides our organizational vision and echoes the organization’s core ideals: community, collaboration and equity). Under Susan’s guidance, the organization expanded to include programs for young women and was renamed The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. In December 1999, the organization purchased and renovated a Harlem brownstone, which still serves as headquarters. In March of 2007 they purchased the land adjacent to our building and now control 5 lots in West Harlem - the leading youth serving agency in the community.