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The Rising Stars Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded by Mike "Pops" Adams and Gerald Hayes. These two professional football players are committed to changing the lives of the inner-city children in their native Paterson, New Jersey. The Rising Stars Foundation, Inc. provides academic, social, cultural, and life skills instruction and exposure for the kids who are most often "forgotten." The Rising Stars motto is "Reaching Back, while Moving Forward."
The Rising Stars Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded by Mike "Pops" Adams and Gerald Hayes. These two professional football players are committed to changing the lives of the inner-city children in their native Paterson, New Jersey. The Rising Stars Foundation, Inc. provides academic, social, cultural, and life skills instruction and exposure for the kids who are most often "forgotten." The Rising Stars motto is "Reaching Back, while Moving Forward."
The basis for the Foundation’s programs is derived from a community-based concept which focuses on the community helping the community. By allowing the people from the community to use their professional and life experiences and resources to help advance the youth in the area, it is our hope that the youth will be compelled by the outreach they will receive to want to give back to their own community to continue the giving and effective change cycle. (read more)
The Rising Stars Foundation would like to thank their Sponsors:
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC-The Light Group
Gatorade (Product Sponsor)
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