ALG is an established Colorado nonprofit of 15 years created to serve the entire African immigrant community to help improve their quality of life. We do it through social, education and economic programs such as youth empowerment and public speaking classes reaching thousands of individuals. Every year during the month of August, we celebrate loudly and proudly the impact African immigrants have in the state of Colorado.
Education & Youth
ALG supports the opening of Mountain Juniper Montessori, a new public charter school in...
The tuition-free, public charter school Mountain Juniper Montessori operates under the micro-school model. This means that instead of having a single large campus, it is the first of several Wildflower schools that will be strategically located throughout the Aurora community.
ALG and Cherry Creek Schools forging a strong partnership, superintendent says
A partnership between the Cherry Creek School District and the African Leadership Group makes a great deal of mutual sense. Just ask Superintendent Christopher Smith.
“Cherry Creek Schools wants to make sure each and every...
New partnership with PEBC offers teaching career opportunities
PEBC’s teacher residency program could be of special interest to ALG members. The yearlong program provides a stipend roughly equivalent to a first-year teacher’s pay, and places residents in a classroom full-time with an experienced mentor teacher.
Parent perspective: Navigating the public school system is challenging
I will continue to be on top of my kids to do well in school and I hope the school will do the same.
Youth Empowerment’s financial literacy class gives students a jump-start
The class helps middle- and high-school students understand the basics of personal finance – balancing a checkbook, budgeting, understanding credit cards and how to stay out of debt, and beginning to save early for retirement.
Student perspective: The pandemic was rough, but we are resilient
If you ask a student like me how it feels like being placed on lockdown for a year and basically being forced to be independent and responsible for your own education whilst navigating the passageways of both young adulthood and high school I would tell you honestly it was hard, it was challenging, it was something different.
Parent perspective: School is back to normal, but students have fallen behind
"I wouldn’t say things are back to normal, in fact I don’t think we know what normal is anymore."
Tutoring program for 2nd-12th grade students
The African Leadership Group (ALG) is excited to kick off the 2022/2023 Tutoring Program on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 via ZOOM .
This is a free access to the service for all community members with...
Afrik Impact kicks off with exuberant Youth Empowerment celebration
The African Leadership Group’s 2022 Afrik Impact Celebration kicked off July 29 with an exuberant Youth Empowerment celebration at the Denver Botanic Gardens, with the theme of “Growing up African in America.”
What Afrik Impact means to one young leader
I love Afrik Impact because it's like a special holiday that has an effect on everyone's heart and leaves them yearning for more.