About Us
Our Mission
We build leaders
Platinum Minds is a Leadership Development organization with the mission to collaborate with other community organizations to assist academically motivated boys from environmentally challenged neighborhoods with achieving their full academic potential and becoming leaders in their communities.
Our Vision
Community Minded Leaders
Our vision is to have more educated leaders from our urban
cities, to see these boys completing high school, graduating college, and becoming decision makers who can positively change the world.
Our Team
Tanya D. Jeffords
Keith Conner
Board Member
Julian Russell
Board Member
Janaka DeSilva
Board Member
Our Executive Director
Since 2007
Platinum Minds was founded by Yvette Long, a mother of two elementary school aged girls after reading a local newspaper article in 2006, which described dangerous neighborhoods where young boys faced daily intimidation and enormous pressure to join street gangs – an environment where promising young students could be killed as they walked to school or played in the local park.
Core Values
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• Leadership
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• Integrity
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• Self-Discipline
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• Exellence
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• Community Service