The Bronx Project is a diverse community that demonstrates what human freedom combined with love and unity is capable of achieving. It was inspiring to see how people of every ethnic, economic and social background were willing to sacrifice — hand in hand — to free their fellow brothers and sisters under the grip of poverty. These grass root organizations created social programs and institutions to help illuminate a path of freedom and unleash the potentials of our fellow citizens in New York’s poorest region.

The Bronx Project, itself, represents the best of us and reaffirmed our nation’s future prosperity. It is a new chapter of the American Story about what is possible and the courage to honor the best of ourselves, in the light of our misguided wars and economic policies.

Everyone I worked with in the Bronx had faith — by sowing these seeds of freedom and love — that in time, these slums will turn into urban centers of New York. The young men and women who call the Bronx their home will overcome their region’s plague of poverty with the resourcefulness and the iron will that can only come from freed and dignified individuals. These core values that empower this nation to its position of unparalleled strength constitute New York Bronx’s main focus. The Bronx is thus, a proud continuation of that long legacy of incomparable freedom, unfettered by aristocracy and patronage, where individual initiatives and altruism have built the most prosperous nation in the world.