Sankofa means to return (san), go (ko), and look, see and take (fa) or ‘go back and take it’. This team of alumni is planning Sankofa trips and activities — stay tuned!

GRIL’s annual visioning session took place on August 4.  What a great day of growing together as a team, seeing our vision at a higher level and creating the plan to carry it out!

Thankful for an amazing group of people who serve on our board and board teams!

Congrats to the GRIL U alumni who graduated from Entrada today!

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Calling all high school students, graduated seniors, and parents!! Come learn What to Know Before You Go! from actual college students and college representatives. Also, experience our how to survive the college culture shock panel discussion. FREE TSHIRTS from Bare All Clothing and FREE FOOD!!!

College Mixer. July 19th. 6 to 8 p.m. Peppino’s Downtown. Free event. 17 and older. Free food. Free T-shirts. Free parking. DJ AB. Lots of fun!

This week we would like to introduce two more GRIL U teen graduates from the 2017-2018 program year – meet Trudy and Taryn.  Taryn attends the Potters House High school while Trudy is at Union HS.  Trudy was a part of the BSHOP site while Taryn was a part of the Madison Square site.  Taryn’s […]

This week we would like to introduce two more GRIL U teen graduates from the 2017-2018 program year – meet Germaine and Trenton.  Germaine was a part of the Madison Square site while Trent was a part of the Berean site.  Germaine attends the Potters House HS while Trent graduated from GRCC Learning Center.  Germaine’s […]