Mission: Y.U.N.G. Harlem (Youth Under New Guidance) non-profit organization aims to lead by example, providing positive leadership for youth of New York City. Our mission is to restore community integrity within the youth of the communities in which we serve. Y.U.N.G. Harlem understands the struggles of our peers and works to use leveled communication as a way for our peers to exceed their dreams of social, financial and academic success.

 The organization, which started in 2008 by Tiffany Bender and Alize Beal, with the primary mission to create empowering outlets that would help to reduce gun violence amongst inner city youth. Our organization is built around  five pillars arts, education, safety, health and entrepreneurship  that help us to produce exciting events|programs for the youth of Harlem. We recently won BET's Black Girls Rock “Making a Difference” award, featured in several national media outlets, and we recently won the IMPACT's Champion of Change award that was announced during the inauguration weekend.