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SAAB
Conferences
SAAB
offers
conferences that incorporate powerful messages of
empowerment and success to young men
throughout the United States. We
invite you to join us in your area
and around the country to meet like minded young men,
professionals, community activists and scholars striving to make a
difference in the lives of men in the community at
large.
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SAAB
Chapter News
SAAB partner,
South Metropolitan Higher Education Consortium
in Illinois
has a very active
Kankakee High School Brother 2 Brother (B2B) chapter.
The Chapter is committed to saving lives and
salvaging dreams at through academic, social, and
spiritual peer mentorship.
In Des Moines Iowa
Drake University celebrated the accomplishments
of the
SAAB Brother to Brother
Chapter to honor graduating seniors
in the Des Moines Pubic School System. 06.30.10
 We applaud
the work of the
SAAB
NW Indiana
Chapter as exhibited in this
YouTube video,
as Chapter
President James
Wallace and members of the 2009-10 Executive Board share
thoughts on activities and progress.
 SAAB
welcomes the
Tiffin University Chapter - Tiffin, OH.
Pictured are the SAAB Coordinating Committee,
including Tiffin University President, Dr.
Marion and his wife.
SAAB
is
excited to announce the addition of
the following institutions to the SAAB Family:
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Dallas
County Community College District
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Des Moines Public Schools System and
SAAB Brother to Brother (B2B)
Chapters
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Durham Public Schools - North Carolina
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USA Funds Foundation's Orlando,
Florida
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University
System of Georgia's (USG) African American
Male Initiative (AAMI)
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Toledo
Public Schools (TPS)
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Zion-Benton Township High School District
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Welcome To SAAB
National Headquarters!
Student African
American Brotherhood (SAAB)
was founded in 1990 and
has grown to more than 200 chapters across college and
university
campuses, as well as middle and high schools in 39 states
in the
U.S.
SAAB
focuses on increasing the number of
African American and Latino men that graduate from college by
creating a positive peer community based on a spirit of caring. SAAB
operates through student run chapters to
help young men excel academically, socially, culturally,
spiritually and in the community.
The Journal of
African American Males in Education (JAAME)
announces its second issue. JAAME is devoted to
the study of African American males throughout
the educational pipeline (P-20), in various
contexts and in multiple capacities. Please
visit the
JAAME website
to learn more.
SAAB
Organization News
The Old College
Try: By focusing on students at risk of
dropping out, donors are finding ways to move
the needle on college graduation rates.
"Forty-three. That’s the percentage of college
freshmen who will drop out of school before
getting a bachelor’s degree. Community
colleges—even worse. There, over 69 percent of
students will drop out before receiving a
credential. That means only 57 percent of
college freshmen—and a mere 31 percent of
first-years in junior college—will earn the
degree they ostensibly set out to obtain. By any
measure, that’s a failing grade.
Article by Evan Sparks, managing editor
of Philanthropy Roundtable.
Read more
about SAAB and the Indiana chapter in the April
issue of
Philanthropy Roundtable.
The SAAB organization launches "SAAB Toledo Book Club"
 The
SAAB Toledo Book Club has been established
by National SAAB Founder / CEO Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe to promote
a culture of "Readership" among our young
males of color. The
SAAB Toledo Book Club is the first
SAAB Book Club in the country - created to benefit
Toledo
SAAB Chapter members.
This new program has been designed on the
basis of evidence from many studies that indicate
African American male
populations struggle in the area of reading. Research also shows that reading as a teen leads to success.
Read full story . . .
Dr. Bledsoe pictured above with book club members
from middle and high schools
in the Toledo Public School system.
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SAAB Milestones
SAAB is pleased to announce 20 years of dedicated
service to student populations. Celebrate with us and
become a
SAAB Supporter
Today. We are a growing organization striving to create relevance for males of color in
reaching out for the realms of higher
education. We pride ourselves on our
chapter leaders and community supporters and hope that
you will join the ranks with your dollars, prayers and
participation.
If
you
wish
to make a contribution to SAAB, please click the
donation button:
Gridiron Smith and Lumina View
Education Gap
Through Racial Lens
 Sixty
percent of
Americans will have high-quality college
degrees and credentials by 2025 if
Lumina
Foundation’s next decade and a half of grantmaking
is successful. The foundation’s ambitious goal targets
students of all races, but Lumina Senior Program Officer
Tina Gridiron Smith says it also presents an opportunity
to address the educational achievement gap between
students of color and white students.
The gap
and its effects are quite stark. According to a
2006 U.S.
Department of Education report,
the average graduation rate for whites is 18% greater
than that of African Americans and 12% greater than that
of Latinos. If the educational gap were narrowed or
eliminated, higher earnings from better educated African
Americans and Latinos would have increased the gross
domestic product last year by up to $525 billion,
according to an
April study by McKinsey and Company.
Read the full article . . .
"Black
males: College or Prison?"
Dr.
Tyrone Bledsoe joined the Chicago TV
Talk Show "Garrard McClendon Live" to discuss "Black males: College
or Prison" (December 29, 2009.)
Click here
to view YouTube clip
 SAAB
is most pleased to announce the ongoing support of
Lumina Foundation for Education
with grant funding in the amount of $725,000
to support system development efforts to benefit our
program in the areas of assessment and evaluation. SAAB
has partnered with the
OMG Center for Collaborative Learning,
a non-profit consulting firm based in Philadelphia,
PA, to
conduct this extensive evaluation.
 SAAB
Founder and Executive Director
Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe was honored by the City of Toledo’s Board of Community Relations with a 2009 Youth
Empowerment Award for his work with African American and
Latino males. Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said Dr. Bledsoe has dedicated “time, talent, and energy
to improve the lives of youth in our community."
More SAAB News
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"The
SAAB experience has opened doors I never thought
imaginable.”
"As
a white male SAAB provides me the same support everyone
gets regardless of race.” 