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DREAM Alive
EQUIPING youth to ACHIEVE their DREAMS.
Scholar Reflection
Throughout the year, we will have some of our achieving scholars post their “Scholar Reflections” following their day’s experience in DREAM Alive. Reflections help us learn about our experiences, our strengths, our weaknesses, set goals, and where we have opportunities for growth.
“Becoming a Team Player”
Written by NJ – 7th Grade
How I will become a better team player is conducting my team better. However, I believe in my opinion that I did good in conducting my team and being a team player today. The biggest challenge we had was to flip the carpet. We had to use teamwork and try to flip the carpet over to the other side and it was fun but difficult because we wasn’t focusing like we was supposed to and most of the time my team was yelling at each other, that wasn’t great teamwork on how being a team player. The easiest thing that we did was the picking up the paper one because the last person had to pick up the paper without touching the ground I think we did good on that but we could’ve did better by slowing down, and concentrating on our movements. What I think a team player is, is never giving up on your team or whatever you do, and never say No or that u can’t do it because everybody can but they just don’t choose to.
Retired Colt Launches Effort to Expand His Youth Foundation
As seen on The Indianapolis Business Journal by Anthony Schoettle on October 12, 2011
Retired Indianapolis Colts offensive lineman Tarik Glenn is the new president of D.R.E.A.M. Alive Inc., a not-for-profit organization that mentors middle- and high-school youth.
Founded in 2001 by Glenn and his wife, Maya, D.R.E.A.M. Alive seeks to develop students into community leaders through after-school programs emphasizing five principles: Discipline, Responsibility, Education, Achievement and Motivation. The organization encourages youth to pursue their dreams while learning firsthand the value of community service.
In years past, Glenn has held a position on D.R.E.A.M. Alive’s executive board while his wife served as board president. Recently, Glenn said, he has been compelled to assume a more active role within the organization. As IBJ reported in July, the organization’s costs have outpaced revenue each of the last four years.
“I am so excited to have a chance to contribute to the Indianapolis community by helping build strong leaders among a key segment of our youth,” Glenn said.
“Indianapolis gave me a chance to play with a winning team and passionately supported us through those years. Through D.R.E.A.M. Alive, I now have a chance to give back to our community by working to see the lives of some very special people transformed. We have great programs and are building another winning team, so we feel very blessed to have this opportunity.”
D.R.E.A.M. Alive provides afterschool programs that focus on community service, leadership development and academic success for children in grades seven through 12. Now in its 10th year, the program operates within two Indianapolis community schools; Shortridge Magnet High School and Harshman Magnet Middle School.
Glenn said he hopes to position D.R.E.A.M. Alive to expand its reach to more schools in the near future.
30 Hour Famine
[Indianapolis, Indiana] – Wars and natural disasters dominate the world’s daily headlines, but behind the scenes and far from the spotlight, hunger and preventable diseases claim the lives of 24,000 of the world’s children every day. More than 1 billion people go hungry every day. More than 6 billion live on the planet. One in six will go hungry tonight.
Why so many? For some families, the only food they have is whatever they can grow themselves. One drought or flood can wipe out a year’s harvest. When it does, there’s no supermarket or food bank they can turn to. Others can barely afford food despite their best efforts. Either way, hunger is anything but yesterday’s problem. For 1 billion people, it’s a problem right now. But world hunger is 100 percent preventable, and teens from Shortridge High School and Arlington Community High School involved in D.R.E.A.M. Alive are ready to help.
D.R.E.A.M. Alive, Inc. is a local youth serving non-profit that strengthens communities by reinforcing the inherent value to give and serve through education, mentoring, and community service programs. Founded by former Colts Pro-Bowl tackle Tarik Glenn and his wife Maya, D.R.E.A.M. Alive serves 7th-12th grade students afterschool at Shortridge Magnet High School and Arlington Community High School.
This February 23rd-24th, D.R.E.A.M. Alive Scholars will be joining the efforts of hundreds of thousands of young people all over the nation who will set aside the usual “stuff” that fills their daily lives. Instead, they will do World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine because they are “LOVE HUNGRY.” By going without food, they get a taste of what the world’s poorest children and families face every day. Prior to the event weekend, students raise funds with the knowledge that every $30 they raise can help feed and care for a child for a month. Also as part of the Famine, D.R.E.A.M. Alive Scholars will be actively involved in service projects this semester for those without food or shelter by volunteering at Gleaners Food Bank and packing hygiene kits for local homeless through C.H.I.P (Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention, Indianapolis).
Funds raised by 30 Hour Famine participants help feed and care for children in communities in need around the globe through World Vision. A portion of the funds raised assist families in need in the United States. Famine funds contribute to World Vision’s response in areas where famine, conflict, and other crises make children vulnerable to hunger and preventable disease. Since 1992, 30 Hour Famine has raised close to $140 million, representing countless lives saved. World Vision works in nearly 100 countries, helping approximately 100 million people every year.
