The Idea Kids Helping Schools developed a program with Philadelphia Youth Basketball to create the Magic Academy, an entrepreneurship program aimed at underserved high school students. The program is based on PYB’s mission to create opportunities for young people to self-determine and to aspire to become the architects of their

Grant Request Kids Helping Schools received a grant request from Kamau Stanford, the extracurricular coordinator for the Mastery Charter School – Shoemaker Campus. Mr. Stanford was teaching a group of approximately 25 at risk boys from West Philadelphia. He felt that these boys had great potential, but needed motivation to