The Neighborhood Enrichment Project Incorporated (NEP Inc.) is a non-profit organization founded in April 2010. Visit our website at www.nepinc.org.
The Neighborhood Enrichment Project Incorporated
Mission Statement
The Neighborhood Enrichment Project’s mission is to partner with communities to facilitate positive growth and wellness by providing innovative solutions to education, youth leadership, and economic development.
Vision Statement
Our vision is to enrich communities by empowering people to reach their fullest potential and achieve success.
“Intelligent Inspirations” Model
There are six “Intelligent Inspirations” that will serve as a framework for the program:
Career Intelligence
Cultural Intelligence
Social Intelligence
Financial Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
Health Intelligence
The “Intelligent Inspirations” model is an intelligent approach to bridging the gap in achievement that plagues low socio-economic communities and schools. We created this model with the intent of transcending youth mentorship, as we now know it. Rather than focusing on the problems and behaviors that we want to eliminate in our youth we must focus on the type of people that we want them to become. We believe that a failing child is an adult problem and we are radical in our belief that all children posses the seeds of intelligence necessary to succeed in life. With the proper nurturing and guidance all children can prosper.
It’s been said that knowledge is power. However it is our belief that knowledge in itself has limits. Our stance is that Intelligence, defined as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills, produces an individual who is capable of acquiring and adapting knowledge to the several challenges that accompany the pursuit of success into the next decade and beyond.
“Intelligent Inspirations” Objectives
- Career Intelligence
- Will provide youth with exposure to a wide range of career fields and opportunities to explore how their innate skills and interest can lead to career satisfaction and financial security.
- We will accomplish this by exposing our youth to Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence. This theory argues that intelligence, particularly as it is traditionally defined, does not sufficiently encompass the wide variety of abilities humans display.
- We believe that providing children with an awareness of their Multiple Intelligence’s (strengths and passions) will build their self-esteem and feelings of self worth. We will nurture each child and provide growth opportunities through their strengths and passions. We will provide college tours, career awareness, and exposure to professionals who share the same strengths and passions.
- Cultural Intelligence
- An important ingredient to enriching the whole child is providing them opportunities to gain awareness of their cultural roots, while also exposing them to cultural diversity.
- Positive cultural awareness activities, trips, and discussions that challenge youths beliefs will eliminate the negative stereotypes and self-fulfilling prophecies that feed poverty and hopelessness in inner city and rural communities.
- Social Intelligence
- Will provide youth with a consciousness and awareness of, their impact on and the needs of, the people and community around them.
- Group activities, rigorous discussions, community service projects, and case studies will develop the consciousness our youth need to be agents for positive change in their communities.
- Economic Intelligence
- Will provide youth with the financial literacy skills needed to build wealth that empowers families and sustains communities.
- Youth will be trained in the basics of financial budgeting and savings and progress to learn about interest, investments, real estate, credit etc.
- Emotional Intelligence
- Will provide youth with the awareness that they have the power to control their emotions. Our youth will be exposed to the mental toughness techniques that successful people use to persevere in the face of life’s inevitable challenges.
- Discussions, readings, speakers, workshops, and group activities will provide our youth with opportunities for growth in this area.
- Health Intelligence
- Will provide youth with an awareness of the proper nutritional and lifestyle choices that lead to a long healthy prosperous life.
- Discussions, readings, speakers, workshops, and group activities will provide our youth with opportunities for growth in this area.
Get Involved!
If you would like information on how you can use your talents to help the movement please email me at
scott@nepinc.org
Donate Online
As a non profit organization our vision is realized through generous donations from people like you. If you would like to give a donation please visit www.nepinc.org to donate instantly through our secure online paypal donate button.
Thank you,
Co-founder/Executive Director
Scott Speed
scott@nepinc.org
NEP Inc.
P.O Box 91703
Atlanta Ga. 30364
