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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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