Steve Davis, Sr. launched The Making of Men Leadership Program (MOMLP) in January 1999 to address persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color and to ensure all youth can reach their full potential. In 2015 The Making
of Men Leadership Conference was launched, inspired by The Making of Men Leadership Program, to scale and sustain this mission. In late 2016, The Making of Men Breakfast was started to reach out to men in the community to help
build capacity for leadership coaching, to support the boys in the program, and to provide an outlet and safe space for men to gather to sharpen each other. As a program of Believe, Inc., MOMLP focuses on building safe and
supportive communities for boys and young men of color where they feel valued and have clear pathways to opportunity.
Since 1999, MOMLP has touched the lives of thousands of African-American males from the ages of
10 to 75 in order to transform communities and interrupt the mass incarceration machine that has destroyed so many families. Our collaborative, team mentorship model brings together local police officers, school districts, and
the faith-based community with the goal of transforming lives and empowering African-American men and boys to improve their live, thereby improving communities.
Boys become compelled to get in touch with the forces
that motivate them, their dreams, their needs and their saboteurs. Men are refocused, empowered, enhanced, leadership confirmed and developed so to dream bigger dreams. With the final result being they begin to engineer
and develop strategies and actions which set them on a new life’s journey.
One of the goals of the MOMLP is to improve relationships between the law enforcement and African-American communities. To encourage
men and boys to dream beyond their conditions. Develop fathers that strengthen their families. As a result, we bring together boys, men, business owners, civic leaders, community leaders and law enforcement at our
annual Making of Men Leadership Conference that is a tool to Renew Rekindle and Reconnect the community as whole.