Outside The Walls/ Wilmington Leadership Foundation

Organization Description: 

Outside The Walls is a faith based orginazation of the Wilmington Leadership Foundation funded by the Amachi Coalition Project.

In late 2009, Public/Private Ventures in partnership with Dare Mighty Things, launched the Amachi Coalition Project, which was awarded $17.8 million in Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention funding to provide financial resources, training, and technical assistance to mentoring organizations in 38 states. Over the 3-year grant period, these programs will create thousands of new mentoring matches for children impacted by incarceration. WLF is a sub-award recipient representing North Carolina in this coalition, which the initial first year goal of creating at least 56 new mentoring matches by June 30, 2010

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20 North 4th Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
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Mission Statement: 

Our mission is to bring about change in the Wilmington area by recruiting mentors for at-risk youth and children affected by incarceration, one child at a time.

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Yes
Are more than one-third of the participants in your organization/programs low income (below 150% of the poverty level)?: 
Yes
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