Mission Second Saturday Network provides a community based program of educational resources aimed at promoting African cultural awareness and informed appreciation of the Black heritage experience.
Overview
As a grassroots community initiative, our Second Saturday events and activities are primarily intended to provide identity enrichment for families of Black and African heritage youth. Our organization also seeks to improve and enrich intergroup relations by enlisting local community involvement in projects that promote global learning. We are duly registered as a nonprofit organization in the state of California under the name Second Saturday Education and Culture Network (dba Second Saturday Network) and have been officially recognized by the IRS as a tax exempt public charity since 2002. Federal Tax ID: #77-0551387.
Program Highlights
Second Saturday Network continues the work of Second Saturday School, which began in 1993,when local community members began offering monthly learning and activity sessions for children at Louden Nelson Center in downtown Santa Cruz. Our mailing list outreach now includes a racially diverse group of concerned educators, youth workers and community leaders as well as more than a two hundred households where Black and African heritage children have grown up or are currently being raised. Since 2006 we have been providing young people in both Santa Cruz County, and the City of San Jose with valuable opportunities to expand their cultural competencies. Our African Heritage Youth Retreats and educational travel experiences are designed primarily for high school and community college students. Our Community Service Internship Program prepares recent college graduates to work more effectively with African heritage youth and their families.
2008-2009 Program Coordinator Nubra Elaine Floyd
2008-2009 Advisory Board
Barbara Berman
Linda Carey Brown
Maureen Littlejohn
Madlyn Norman-Terrance
Kristine O'Neil
Cassandra Paden
Valarie Victoria Shepherd
