SOUL

SOUL Student-Athletes Organized to Understand Leadership
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To help at-risk youth obtain educational excellence, using basketball as pedagogy for youth development.

We accomplish this goal through the facilitation of academic workshops and one-on-one tutoring Students Organized to Understand Leadership (SOUL) is a sport based youth development program. The SOUL mission is to provide Washington area youth with athletic, academic, and cultural development opportunities - using basketball as an instrument to achieve the desired outcome. The program operates und

er the belief that sports-based programs must assume a greater role in youth development. Programs should better leverage the influence of coaches and mentors to support the hard work of parents and traditional educators in developing productive young adults. The high school dropout rate in our Nation’s capital is approximately 40% and this number disproportionately weighted along socioeconomic lines. It is without question that mentoring has significant positive effects on the alleviation of high school delinquency and dropout rates. SOUL’s mission is to not only to decrease the amount of dropouts amongst at-risk youth, but to increase the rate of subsequent enrollment into higher education amongst these youth, arming them with the tools and life skills needed to be leaders for their communities

SOUL Summer Camp has reached full capacity. Email development@soulprograms.org about our wait list.
06/11/2026

SOUL Summer Camp has reached full capacity. Email [email protected] about our wait list.

We are excited to announce will collaborate with the to engage approximately 100 institutional members, including 70 ...
05/05/2026

We are excited to announce will collaborate with the to engage approximately 100 institutional members, including 70 collegiate student-athletes.


04/23/2026

Proud to support alongside the !
03/18/2026

Proud to support alongside the !

03/06/2026

Mock NFL Draft Day! Data Science Education program. Using secondary data to make general management decisions.

We were blessed to facilitate programming for 10th grade class c/o 2028. We met future culinary geniuses, professional ...
03/03/2026

We were blessed to facilitate programming for 10th grade class c/o 2028. We met future culinary geniuses, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, educators, doctors... this was truly an inspiring experience.

We love those Saturday Basketball Academy sessions with Coach Tate.
02/03/2026

We love those Saturday Basketball Academy sessions with Coach Tate.

EATS - Early Access To Sports. A partnership with Garfield Elementary and Fight For Chilfldren creates and opportunity f...
11/07/2025

EATS - Early Access To Sports. A partnership with Garfield Elementary and Fight For Chilfldren creates and opportunity for to providing sports-based activities, student belonging exercises, and assist a school advance attendance goal.

We send a huge thank you to our friends at Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft for an amazing afternoon.
10/16/2025

We send a huge thank you to our friends at Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft for an amazing afternoon.

It was an absolute pleasure to watch alum play this weekend.
10/06/2025

It was an absolute pleasure to watch alum play this weekend.

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Washington D.C., DC
20002

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+12028032083

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