Gateway to Freedom nonprofit is a community center for young people who are creatively gifted. Our mission is to empower youth to achieve greatness in adulthood through artistic expressions and entrepreneurial mentorship. Our purpose is to help young people identify and develop their creative gifts. Our vision is is to provide young people the opportunity to live a life filled with purpose by cultivating their natural abilities, guiding them into the creative, artistic careers that they love. There is significant pressure these days for young people to go the traditional route and work for anyone besides themselves. We are a group of artistic creative entrepreneur mentors that have set out to teach like minded young people how to monetize their creativity and live a life filled with passion and purpose Societal pressure can easily disconnect us from our creative self-expression.  Many of us have natural creative gifts, that when activated, and properly nurtured, can translate into both entrepreneurship as well as traditional forms of employment. At Gateway to Freedom, we believe in our young people and have set out to help them learn to believe in themselves.
Our Pilot program is called “Notes to Freedom,” where 48 students will begin to find and develop their musical gifts through our 3 month comprehensive mentorship program.  Where the student will be learning songwriting, production, audio engineering and deejaying. We are splitting up our course into 3 month semesters, serving 12 students each semester ranging from ages 15-19. We will have 4 8 hour days of classes and 2 days of open studio time where the students can practice and apply the skills they are learning giving every student the resources to create their own project. The projects will vary based on the students chosen focus. Some students who are interested in rapping or singing will have the opportunity to make an EP of 5-9 tracks, other students who are focused on production and beat making, will have the option to create a compilation of beats that they have created, the students who are interested in deejaying will get the opportunity to create a mix tape.


We think that if artists were given more opportunities at young ages to develop their talents without getting taken advantage of, a lot more artists would experience success, faster and not get lost in an industry designed to take advantage of them. We feel that in order to promote high self esteem and a high level of belief in self, we need to show our youth that we believe in them. What better way to do so then creating a space for creatives to to be able to connect with one another in a safe controlled environment while learning how to live in their true purpose.
  

Ounce we get our classes going, We are also planning on doing monthly events to give our students a platform where they can showcase their talents.

 
$10 donation = shout out on social media connected to your personal or business account

$25 donation = video shout out on social media connected to your business or personal account

$50 donation = free hour of studio time

$100 donation = free cut at Lordz Barbershop

$50 donation = free t-shirt

$75 donation = free bracelet

$150 donation to the community garden and have your name or business name on one of the bricks

$200 donation = a music production session for a local artist

$250 donation = have you name or business written on a brick of the building as an original member of the foundation

$250 donation = sponsor the community bbq area and have your name or business name stenciled on one of the bbq bricks.

$1000 donation = sponsor the first monthly event with your name or business on banners, the website, our social media as well as content made for you to use from the event

$2500 donation = sponsor the production of a full, 9-12 song album of a local artist and be featured on the album art in a cool way, sponsor the album event launch with your name or business on banners, announcements and more for social media content production and promotion

$1000 donation = sponsor the construction of the stage and have your name or business permanently attached to it.