Wayne_black Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Hello all, To those who don't know me my name is Wayne Black and I currently wrestle at College of Mt. St. Joseph, which is a small division 3 college in Cincinnati, OH. I went to Pike High School and was a state qualifier back in 2010. I'm writing this post because I would like to open a non profit within the inner city of Indianapolis, but before I can do this I need some help. I was wondering if anyone could give me some demographic information on the youth programs in the city, specifically IPS district. I know there aren't a lot of programs, which is why I want to start my non profit to help benefit not only the wrestling world, but to also help the inner city youth and clean up Indianapolis as whole. If you don't know a lot of bad things have been happening lately, and I think its really getting out of hand. I want to use wrestling as my catalyst to help fix this problem. I think kids can come learn a lot about wrestling and the life lessons it teaches and use them along with connections I'm working on building to not only stay in school and out of the streets, but to accomplish goals that they never thought were possible. If you could be of any help PLEASE let me know. I always see post about keeping wrestling in Indiana well please help a cause that wants to just that and get some kids to college. For more information about the non profit I'm working on starting go to my website thegrindhardacademy.weebly.com and for more information on my wrestling background as far as what I've done so far in college refer to http://www.msjsports.com/wrestling/default/ I really need help and can't do this on my own so any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading this. Wayne Black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
base Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Best of luck Wayne, that is a worthy cause Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne_black Posted April 25, 2013 Author Share Posted April 25, 2013 Thank you base it's a lot of work and will continue to be, but it's worth it to me giving back to a sport and community that have given me so much is all I care about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 I would think Coach Tanniehill (Tanniehill Wrestling Academy/Take Down Crime) may be of some help to you in getting thing off the ground and finding some useful information. He has helped develop a program long these lines in the Indianapolis area already. This e-mail may still work for him tanniehillwrestlingacademy@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrestlingfan182 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 I coached at Attics MSyears back and would like to wish you the best of luck. I always wanted to do the same thing as a parent of 3kids that attended IPS in elementary school.If you ever need a hand I M me my son wrestled for PM and would love to help in anyway. Again best of luck to you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne_black Posted April 25, 2013 Author Share Posted April 25, 2013 MattM yea coach Tannehill coached me in high school, but I had lost his number thank you for giving me that email. I will definitely be shooting him one today. Thank you for the support. Wrestlingfan182 I remember watching your son at a couple tournys like regionals and what not back when I was in high school. Thank you too for the wishes. Hope all goes well with everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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