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Forward Paths Foundation. 2018, http://forwardpaths.org Accessed 23 January. 2018

Forward Paths is a nonprofit organization that helps homeless youth’s and kids who are aging out of foster care. They are located in Leesburg, Fl. Leesburg is a small town located in a low-income area in central Florida. Many of its youth in the area on sometime of government assistance such as food stamps or welfare. Programs such as Forward Paths play a huge role in our community to help those who have nowhere else to go. They provide housing, help develop job skills and give them educational opportunities to help improve each individual’s life.

I am going to be using the Mission Statement and other information from the Forward Paths website. The website gives an overall idea of what the program provides for its youth that have enrolled in the program. It shows the founders of the foundation and all of its board members (Denise Burry and Joanie Smalley), who I plan to interview later. Forward Paths Mission Statement is “We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to live up to their full potential. Our focus is on our community’s homeless youths and those who are aging out of foster care. We believe together we can create a path that leads to independence.” Forward Paths also hosts many events throughout the year. Because they are a nonprofit organization they work off of donations and grants. They host a yearly lunch in, dinners at the local church and this year had a bike Prom.

I am going to use all of this information in my paper to show how much of an impact a small organization like this can have on a town and on individuals on both the helping and receiving end. In my paper, I plan to focus on the mission statement, what Forward Paths is doing to help the individuals in it and how it has affected our community as a whole. I plan to included interviews from some of its board members and about their events but not focus on them. This website is extremely helpful for my paper because it provides all the basic information that the organization provides.