The Beau Program Committee has exercised considerable thought, vision, and inspiration toward program development in order to provide our young men with exceptional and added-value opportunities. This extraordinary program has four pillars.

As a cultural and developmental process, whereby the young men examine its importance and relevance. This curriculum is framed by three themes: Reasoning, Responsibility, and Reciprocity and experienced through lecture, video, mentoring, thoughtful and introspective discourse, and physical challenge.

Many youth do not relate to the freedoms they enjoy today as those earned at the expense of earlier generations such as their grandparents and great-grandparents. Present day youth, coined the ‘hip-hop’ generation, embrace ‘freedom’ with nonchalance. The pioneers of the civil rights movement, who stood at the forefront of the struggles to gain freedom and equality, crossed multiple barriers within society. Our African-American youth cannot truly value their history and its application to their future, if they do not learn of it with ancestral accuracy and through primary sources. As Grass roots and boardroom relationships become more disparate between them, today’s youth become more central in closing the gap

Political partisanship is not what we espouse to deliver to the young men of this program however we do elevate civic responsibility, and responsibility to community as a tenet of our program. As future leaders our youth will need to find support in their communities, gaining trust through their actions and personal integrity. To this end their voices will not rise above without the aggregate voices of the African American community and ultimately the aggregate vote of the African American community to support the causes that impact them.