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Business Membership Application

A Call to Duty

For those concerned about the


health and future of our
community; and committed to
supporting efforts to
Save our Sons, our Daughters, our
Children

The Dawn Of
A New Day

Power Teen Movement


The Painful and Destructive Reality

We Must Stop This!!

Of the killings in Chicago in 2009, 352 were Black, or 76


percent of all killings in the city during 2009 were Black.

Black victims of homicides were triple that of homicides


among White, Hispanic and other races combined.

Homicide in the Black community in the under 12 to 19


years old age group was almost equal to total homicides
of all ages in the White, Hispanic and Asian
communities.

In the under 12 to 25 year old age group the number of


Black youth killed, doubles the number of homicides in
the White, Hispanic and Asian communities combined.
Black homicides more than double the number of
soldiers killed in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
during 2009.

Creating opportunities to renew the human spirit through


devotion to the upliftment of fallen humanity by building
safe, united, productive communities.

New L.I.F.E. Movement 329 W. 18th St., Suite 500, Chicago Illinois, 60616 (312) 324-0253

Dear Member of Chicagos Business Community:

This letter is to introduce Mr. Ali Muhammad and Mr. Ed Bruce, who are assisting the New L.I.F.E. Movement in
promoting, advertising and educating Chicagos business community about the BusyMan Power Teen Movement. We
would like for your business to become an active supporter and play a meaningful role in our initiative to stop the senseless
killings, shootings and acts of violence among our youth in the City of Chicago. To this end, we strongly feel your business
can be an invaluable asset by becoming an affiliated member of the New L.I.F.E. Movement. By doing so, your business
will be making a contribution in support of safe, positive and productive youth development programs such as the BusyMan
Power Teen Movement.

Businesses in Chicago who elect to become an affiliated member of the New L.I.F.E. Movement will receive an official
Affiliated Membership Certification for posting in your business location for your loyal customers to see and know your
business fully support efforts to save the youth in our community and the City of Chicago.

Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Bruce will provide you materials regarding our organization and services we provide to our youth
and benefits for your business. Should you have any questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact me
at 312.324.0253.

On behalf of the New L.I.F.E. Movement, I thank you for your business participation and support in addressing youth
violence in our community which is adversely impacting communities throughout the City of Chicago

Sincerely,

_________________________
Dr. Levern Murphy
President & C.E.O.
BUSYMAN - THE NEW BRAND
Representing Integrity, Performance and Top Quality Service to the African
American community.

Executive Summary

Not a day passes in urban black America that we dont hear over and over again the senseless carnage wrought upon the lives
of young African American males living in urban black America. A recent study reveals that black homicide rates in the 14
to 17 year old age group has risen forty percent between 2000 and 2007. In Chicago Public Schools, the drop-out rates for
black males are approaching 60 percent. Illinois prison data reveals that only three percent of African American inmates
have a high school diploma. The correlation between High School drop-out rates and disproportionate rates of incarceration
among black males is clear and demands intervention.

According to a recent study released by North Eastern University reveals some rather disturbing facts: 1. Among their
findings: An increase of more than thirty-nine percent in the number of black males between the ages of 14 and 17 killed
between 2000 and 2007, and an increase of thirty-four percent in the number of blacks in that age group who committed
homicide. The vast majority of black youth killed are killed by other black youth. The victims and perpetrators of gun
crimes are getting younger and younger and we are losing a most valuable sector of our population to senseless gun violence.

Since September 11, 2001, we have witnessed a steady and dramatic decline in government funding support for community
based programs that serve at risk youth. These dollars have been redirected to Homeland Security programs intended to beef
up security against foreign external threats. The local impact of this funding shift away from inner city youth oriented
services has left many urban communities far less safe, and the youth of our communities, particularly, black males are too
often left wasting away on the streets of urban America. Government neglect to these concerns coupled with inaction on the
part of communities directly impacted leaves little hope as it relates to reversing this insidious and deadly pathology.

The LIFE Movement, an Illinois based not-for-profit dues paying membership organization is taking the lead in organizing
local community efforts to design strategies and an intervention model to disrupt the current trend. The LIFE Movement,
through its Building Our Posterity (BOP) initiative has introduced the BusyMan model of services and programs specifically
targeted at high risk youth.

The BusyMan Power Teen Movement is a violence reduction, juvenile delinquency prevention strategy which is a character
building program that improves life skills and literacy, currently being implemented throughout Cook County. The
BusyMan Power Teen Movement is a school and community based direct service model designed to organize youth to be
proactive and accepting of their responsibility in helping to create safe communities; and to help stop the deadly violence
thats taking too many of our young peoples lives, and destroying our posterity.
BusyMan is a school based intervention that aims to stop the senseless killing of our children; stop the wholesale disruption
of our childrens education as evidence by an alarming high school drop-out rate especially of our young men. The system
has our young boys on a path to early death or long term incarceration during the prime years of their lives to the clear and
destructive impact on our posterity.

The BusyMan Power Teen Movement is presently operating in twenty-one public high schools in communities hit hardest by
youth violence, delinquency, crime, high unemployment, and deteriorating housing stock. The youth participants receive
mental health services, entrepreneurial training, and life coaching.

The staffing pattern for BusyMan Power Teen Movement emphasizes the need for male presence for direct interface with
young black males. Currently, nearly one hundred male mentors are part of the front line of the BusyMan Power Teen
Movements

BusyMan Power Teen Movement description:


The multi-faceted Power Teen Movement is a personal development and motivational learning intensive experience.
BusyMan Power Teen Movement provides teens with social and emotional knowledge to apply to situational
encounters. BusyMan Power Teen Movement implements a three-phase, self fortification curriculum in traditional,
after school and summer program settings. The programs instruction time consist of five days a week, one hour and
a half a day. The experience includes parents/student interaction and activities to reinforce learned skills and
techniques to living a successful life. BusyMan Power Teen Movement provides real world skill sets within five core
areas: self awareness, managing emotions and behavior, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible
decision making, and entrepreneurial training as a strategy to alleviate poverty.

The BusyMan Power Teen Movement will present a series of interactive seminars, focusing on the business of sports and
entertainment, as a supplemental component to our entrepreneurial training program. These seminars will be designed to
enlighten young adults on the inner-workings of corporate entertainment entities in an effort to expand their consciousness on
career and revenue producing opportunities in sports and music.

The business of sports and entertainment seminar topics to be determined at a later date and offered to participating BusyMan
Power Teen Movement members who have been identified as making progress with our core curriculum. Upon completion
of the seminar series, students will apply their knowledge through a hands-on experiential learning process that will
culminate with those students hosting their own revenue producing events.

Join the New Life Movement Now. Everybodys HELP is urgently needed.
Creating opportunities to renew the human spirit through
devotion to the upliftment of fallen humanity by building
safe, united, productive communities.

New L.I.F.E. Movement 329 W. 18th St., Suite 500, Chicago Illinois, 60616 (312) 324-0253

Mission, Purpose, Goal, Vision and Values


of
The New L.I.F.E. Movement

Mission
To alleviate the impact of poverty, dependence, and manipulation of community circumstances by external
influences that negate our capacity to be self determining and in control of our own lives and destinies.

Purpose
To change the pervasive dysfunctional social, economic, and political reality to a state wherein the African
American community becomes progressive, self-reliant and self-determining.

Goal
To create a community environment that nurtures a sense of oneness that eliminates feelings of isolation and
disconnection from the mainstream of community L.I.F.E. through the operations of programs that connect and
empower African people to change the existing counter-productive social, economic, and political condition.

Vision
We envision a highly organized and productive community that supports and nurtures its members to their
maximum level of functioning; organized and functional political structures that promote economic and social
upward mobility that affects the desired levels of community achievement.

Values
Impenetrable bond of brotherhood/sisterhood.
Collective efforts that demonstrate the power of unity.
Acceptance of personal responsibility for self-development as a prerequisite for community
development.
Establishment of unquestionable integrity among our members and relationships.
The building of strong families with the capacity to inculcate the moral and spiritual values our
children will need to fully develop into the progressive social force necessary to continue building
upon our efforts in the future.
A constructive spiritual framework that inspires and directs our individual and collective efforts.
Creating opportunities to renew the human spirit through
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devotion to the upliftment of fallen humanity, by building
safe, united, productive communities.

New L.I.F.E. Movement 329 W. 18th St., Suite 500, Chicago Illinois, 60616 (312) 324-0253

Business Membership Options

DIAMOND Membership---$5,500.00/yr (representing $15.00 per day from sales to the community)

1 (One) Window Poster that reads This Business Supports the New L.I.F.E. Movement, Do You?
5 (Five) Days per week of front of the store sweeping/snow removal by a youth member of the New
L.I.F.E. Movement for one calendar year.
1 (One) Listing in the New L.I.F.E. Movement e-Business Directory.
1 (One) Page Ad in the New L.I.F.E. Movement Monthly Newsletter for 1 month per business location.
1 (One) Feature Article about my business in the New L.I.F.E. Movement Monthly e-Newsletter.

PLATINUM Membership---$3,650.00/yr (representing $10.00 per day from sales to the community)

1 (One) Window Poster that reads This Business Supports the New L.I.F.E. Movement, Do You?
3 (Three) Days per week of front of the store sweeping/snow removal by a youth member of the New
L.I.F.E. Movement for one calendar year.
1 (One) Listing in the New L.I.F.E. Movement e-Business Directory.
1 (One) Page Ad in the New L.I.F.E. Movement Monthly Newsletter for 1 month per business location.

GOLD Membership---$1,825.00/yr (representing $5.00 per day from sales to the community)

1 (One) Window Poster that reads This Business Supports the New L.I.F.E. Movement, Do You?
2 (Two) Days per week of front of the store sweeping/snow removal by a youth member of the New
L.I.F.E. Movement for one calendar year.
1 (One) Listing in the New L.I.F.E. Movement e-Business Directory.
1 (One) 1/8 Page Ad in the New L.I.F.E. Movement Monthly Newsletter for 1 month per business location.

SILVER Membership---$730.00/yr (representing $2.00 per day from sales to the community)

1 (One) Window Poster that reads This Business Supports the New L.I.F.E. Movement, Do You?
1 (One) Days per week of front of the store sweeping/snow removal by a youth member of the New
L.I.F.E. Movement for one calendar year.
1 (One) Listing in the New L.I.F.E. Movement e-Business Directory.
Membership Request Form
Yes, this business fully supports the efforts of the New L.I.F.E. Movement to help us give back to the
community as they mentor our youth and help them to become exemplary, productive adults that, too, will
give back to the community and evolve into positive role models for future youths to come. As such, please
accept our donation below as payment for our Business Membership into the New L.I.F.E. Movement.

Business Name: _____________________________________________________

Address: __________________________ City: ________________ State: _____ Zip: _________

Phone: (____) _____-____________ Fax: (____) _____-____________

Website: ______________________________________ E-mail: _______________________

Contact Person: _______________________________ Title: _______________________

Annual Business Volume: Under $500,000.00/ year Over $500,000.00/ year


I (We) have read and understand the benefits of each of the different Business Membership Options
and have selected the below membership level:
I (We) choose to support the New L.I.F.E. Movement with a $5,500.00 Diamond Business Membership
dues (representing $15.00 per day from sales to the community), paid annually.
I (We) choose to support the New L.I.F.E. Movement with a $3,650.00 Platinum Business Membership
dues (representing $10.00 per day from sales to the community), paid annually.
I (We) choose to support the New L.I.F.E. Movement with a $1,825.00 Gold Business Membership
dues (representing $5.00 per day from sales to the community), paid annually.
I (We) choose to support the New L.I.F.E. Movement with a $730.00 Sliver Business Membership
dues (representing $2.00 per day from sales to the community), paid annually.

_________________________________ _____________ ___________________________


Authorized Representative Printed Date Title

_________________________________ _________________________________
Authorized Representative Signature New L.I.F.E. Movement Representative

Method of payment: Check Money Order Credit Card

Payment information: _____________________ (Check or money order number or last 4 digits of card)

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