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Mentoring Brother 2 Brother, Inc.
"Empowering African American Young Men Through Mentoring And Leadership Development"

Who We Are
Mentoring Brother 2 Brother, Inc. is a Dallas, Texas area based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, created in 1999 to provide mentoring, leadership, character and life development skills to disenfranchised and at-risk African American young men within the South Dallas and surrounding metroplex communities. The co-founders of Mentoring Brother 2 Brother are Mr. Terrence Chase and Mr. Ray Schufford.

Mission
Mentoring Brother 2 Brother programs are designed with the mission and vision to support the social, emotional and cultural well being of youth who are often targets of peer pressures toward behavior the is risky, and some times life-threatening. All MB2B programs (mentoring, tutoring, community service, leadership, spirituality) are designed to be strong in discipline, prevention and intervention components in partnership with their parent to provide the youth development programing to empower both the single-parent and young man to a new level of accountability and responsibility.

History
Mentoring Brother 2 Brother, Inc. was created over ten years ago with the mission to successfully mobilize at-risk young men between the crucial ages of 6 to 18, strategizing them through educational tutoring, leadership training, mentoring programs and community service projects to be a catalyst in directing their paths away from negative peer pressure, unacceptable moral behavior, gangs and other negative urban-living obstacles, and empowering them to become our future leaders and thinkers as well as socially, culturally and community conscience African American young men.

MB2B Founders

Terrence Chase Mr. Chase currently serves as MB2B President and Education Coordinator

Education: BA - Mathematics emphasis Elementary Education, Masters level degree in Counseling

Profession: Teaching and Counseling Professional with the Duncanville ISD

Community Involvement: Various Ministries Concord Baptist Church – Dallas. Mr. Chase has a diversity of experience in working as a former Boys & Girls Club staff member in the Denver, Colorado area.

Ray Schufford Mr. Schufford is co-founder of MB2B and serves as Vice-President. Through August 2011, Mr. Schufford will be on sabbatical in his directorship role as Vice-President from the Mentoring Brother 2 Brother organization, but he is still actively involved as an organizational consultant, board member and mentor.

Education: BA - Business Management

Profession: Mr. Schufford is a twenty year decorated veteran as a Paramedic with the City of Dallas Fire & Rescue.

Community Involvement: Various Ministries Concord Baptist Church - Dallas. Mr. Schufford was the former co-owner of Nice Look Barber Shop located in South Dallas, as well as the founder of several other entrepreneurial business ventures, and is an emerging new author of the novel Bells Beneath My Pillow.