| Meet Our
Staff:
Philip
Herman—Executive Director : e-mail
Whether working with suburban gang youth or straight A poor students,
Philip Herman has spent the last 17 years assisting young people move
forward in life. He has been involved in directing a 12 suburban gang
taskforce, worked for two local park districts doing community
outreach, was director of a private-operating family foundation that
ran four junior high and senior high mentoring/tutoring programs, and
is the founder and director of GWAYO, Inc. that has 104 current
students and 24 graduates in college.
Philip Herman is a leader of people. That leadership has manifested
itself in leading public officials (Mayors and elected trustees, school
officials, police chiefs, park district directors, and social service
agency directors) in planning and addressing how to address suburban
gang problems. He has lead by writing curriculum and developing
programs that serve as models of how to work with the poor and truly
enable them instead of making them dependent on systems and handouts.
He is an accomplished public speaker who speaks with passion and
expertise because of so many years of direct service work in the
trenches.
Philip is an administrator who knows how to manage and lead by example
both budgets and people. He has overseen staff as small as another
person and him to over 55 people underneath his leadership. He has
written and administered grants that got funded as small as $1,000 to
as large as $180,000. Also, he has overseen three separate construction
projects of $45,000, $175,000, and $225,000. Most importantly, Philip
has given oversight to youth programs that have been as big as 220
young people.
Brian Booth
—North Program Coordinator : Email
Contact Information 847 812 3941
North Program
Address:
610B North Milwaukee Ave, Prospect Heights, IL
60070
(Buffalo Grove, Wheeling HS, London & Homes
Middle School)
Richard O'Brien
—South Program Coordinator : Email
Contact Information 847 666 7981
South Program
Address
610B North Milwaukee
Ave, Prospect Heights, IL 60070
(Hersey, Prospect, Elk Grove, Rolling Meadows HS,
Sandburg Junior High)
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