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CENTER-BASED PROGRAMS





                   Feature: Goodstein Junior Leaders


                   The Goodstein Junior Leaders program        opportunities, and fundraising. Service-
                   was founded in 1998 with a gift from the    learning project partners include the Ronald
                   Harvey Goodstein Charitable Foundation      McDonald House, Shoebox Recycling and
                   and has become Legacy Youth Tennis and      more than a dozen others.
                   Education’s marquee off-court program.
                   Targeted to high school-aged children,      Legacy’s Goodstein Junior Leaders:
                   this leadership development program is      •  Average more than 2,000 volunteer hours
                   based on a service-learning model that
     LEGACY YOUTH TENNIS AND EDUCATION  in the Philadelphia region with volunteer   •  Identify community needs and create                  Tauheed Browning and Marcel Mordecai of the   Zimere Melton (Legacy ’15 / Kutztown University ’19)   BIENNIAL REPORT: 2014/15 & 2015/16
                                                                as a team per year
                   encourages students to identify social
                                                               •  Raise funds for Legacy programming
                   needs and support causes of their interest
                   labor and fundraising.
                                                                action plans to serve them
                                                                                                                                                                                       discusses his academic plans with Sharmain Matlock-
                                                                                                                                            Goodstein Junior Leaders participate in a Kaboom!
                                                               •  Serve as ambassadors for the organization
                   The academic-year-long program
                                                                                                                                            Playground build supported by the Target
                                                                                                                                                                                       Turner, President and CEO of the Urban Affairs
                   combines a variety of hands-on activities
                                                                at internal and external events
                                                                                                                                                                                       Coalition during a 2016 visit to Legacy.
                                                                                                                                            Foundation in the neighborhood of our Ad Prima
                   including: tennis, leadership exercises and
                                                                                                                                            and Martha Washington program sites.
                   workshops, service-learning projects, travel
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