LEAP will celebrate our 5th Year anniversary February of 2025
L E A P Promoting Young Leaders
LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION OF YOUTH
LEAP supports youth even when they just want to have fun!
L.E.A.P. - FUN Cruise - May 26 - May 30th, 2025
LEAP, Leaders & Entrepreneurs for the Advancement & Promotion of Youth is a nonprofit that operates 3 programs to develop youth into leaders, encourage them to expand their education and help them to obtain talents and opportunities to be entrepreneurs. The LEAP program will celebrate 5 years in February 2025 and we are excited to celebrate with our youth on this cruise. The cruise will celebrate one of our graduating seniors, acknowledge the completion of our first Debutant Cotillion Ball, recognize our first graduating class of LEAP students becoming seniors and the work that we have accomplished over the last 5 years and all that we have learned. LEAP will help coordinate the trip for the students but everyone will pay their way individually. The cost is $625 and it includes a 4 day cruise from Port Canaveral, Florida to Nassau Bahamas, Princess Cay island and back to Orlando, along with transportation from Forest City, NC to Port Canaveral and back.
This trip is for High School students only with the exception of those middle school students currently enrolled in LEAP. This trip is open to parents that would like to attend with their students but cabins are filling up quick so deposits are due by 9/16/24 in the amount of $75. Please contact Kisha McDowell ASAP, if you would like to go at 828-375-9315.
Don't Miss this FUN Trip!!!!
Monday May 26th, 2025 - May 30th, 2025
Depart 4:00am from Grahamtown Comm Center going to Port Canaveral, Florida
Arrive back at Port Canaveral, 8:00am on Friday, May 30 and depart for Forest City, NC.
Possible overnight stay in Florida will be an extra$65/ per person.
Make deposits and payment to:
https://cash.app/$LEAP4YouthRC
Paypal: leap4gitlsfc@gmail.com
SUPPORT LEAP PROGRAMS
LEAP Leadership, LEAP Music & LEAP College Tour 2025.
$50.00
We are hoping to make it possible for 44 kids plus chaperones to attend this trip. The cost of this trip is expected to be around $25,000. This includes charter bus, hotels, meals and 1 attraction. We need your help in sponsoring this trip. The per person cost is $300 and we are hoping that you will share this information with businesses, friends, and family to get students involved and to support those that are currently involved in LEAP. If you are unable to do the whole amount of $25,000, you are more than welcome to sponsor 1 or more youth. Some families have children in middle and high school and this amount may seem exorbitant. Check out our website and learn more about LEAP. Previously we served just girls, now we serve girls and boys, our website is www.leap4youth.org.
Now Accepting New Youth (Girls and Boys)
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LEAP is open to girls ages 9-16. We come together to enhance the dreams, desires, hopes and hidden potential of girls as leaders, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.
We work together to determine our business objectives, we learn business skills such as communication, speech, administration, management, finances and more.
It is our mission to encourage, inspire and motivate young girls to be influential leaders, entrepreneurs and powerful women in their schools, homes, jobs, and businesses.
LEAP began February 2020 and has continued to educate, mentor, instruct and lead these young ladies to amazing businesses where they have met great women entrepreneurs, who have taught them about their businesses, growth, losses, ups and downs in the real world.
To learn more about LEAP call Executive Director Kisha McDowell at 262-989-8982, or send an email to leap4girlsfc@gmail.com.
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Every girl should be a part of LEAP or a similar program to learn how to tap into skills that are not in sports, music or the arts. LEAP taps into the potential of the girl becoming a woman. Join today!!
YOUTH LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURS
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PRODUCT DESIGNERS
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Product designs
Tony - 12 yrs. old
CREATORS
PRODUCT DESIGNERS
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Talented logo creator
Faith - 13yrs. old - "Swish"
PRODUCTS FOR SALE
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PRODUCTS FOR SALE
Every LEAP Leader is successful.
Aniyah 10 yrs. old - "Yiyi's Pop Cosmetics"
About Us
LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURS for the ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION OF YOUTH
Email us: leap4girlsfc@gmail.com
LEADERSHIP
STACEY BOGART'S CAMP - ELLENBORO, NC
ENTREPRENEURS
FUTURE BUSINESS OWNERS
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Our Team
Our History
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Our amazing team of volunteers are committed to helping others. We take our convictions and turn them into action. Think you would be a good fit? Get in touch for more information!
828-229-3380
Email: leap4girlsfc@gmail.com
Our History
Our History
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LEAP was formed with a desire for young adults to build businesses in their home communities and a need for young people to become leaders, volunteers, entrepreneurs, and business owners in the place they grew up in.
Our Mission
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Our Mission
To encourage, inspire and motivate young girls to be influential leaders, entrepreneurs and powerful women in their schools, homes, communities, jobs, and businesses.
Donate to support our LEADERS
$20.00
LEAP provides participants with tools and products needed to assist them in developing their business ideas. These supplies and materials require funds. Please support LEAP.
CASH APP: $GRAHAMTOWNTEAM - SPECIFY FOR LEAP
IN THE NEWS
RUTHERFORD WEEKLY TALKS ABOUT LEAP
Kisha McDowell wants to change the world, one girl at a time.
One of her projects is LEAP, Leaders & Entrepreneurs for the Aspirations and Promotion of Girls.
On a recent Saturday afternoon a small group of her aspiring leaders gathered at the POPS pavilion in Forest City to hand out bags of information about the program, meet new girls, and promote the work.
"We want girls to have the confidence to start their own businesses," McDowell said as her two daughters, Aniyah and Makalyla and Gracy Hodge milled nearby.
Hodge's mom, Dawnette, is a lead volunteer with the group and a budding business person herself. She cooks Caribbean food.
McDowell is cooking home-delivered meals for a small group of customers and can be found at 262-989-8982.
So that entrepreneurial spirit is not only being taught to the young women in the LEAP program, but it is being modeled by McDowell and Hodge, too.
Recent on-line programs have included exposing the LEAP girls to Mia Chapman and Bud Rosan who work with American Zink. The two industrial leaders taught the girls about their skills in working on the industrial scene.
McDowell also mentioned the example of Rosa Parks whose leadership was at the heart of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the igniting incident that fueled the modern civil rights movement. Parks, who was secretary of the local NAACP, had prepared through training and prayer, for the day she would defy the bus segregation in Montgomery.
She probably could not have imagined that her courageous refusal to give her seat to a white man would result in the Supreme Court striking down bus segregation in Montgomery and across the nation.
McDowell hopes to instill success thinking and believing in the girls through strategies that she describes as: don't leap to conclusions about anyone or anything, use sharing to open doors to communication, engage in learning, find effective strategies, plan the execution, and reach the goal.
To find out more call 828-229-3380 / 262-989-8982 or email the group at leap4girlsfc@gmail.com.
