NY Times Highlights Work Of The Bridge Golf Foundation

Nice work by the NY Times' Paul Rogers highlighting the state of New York's Bridge Golf Foundation in a lengthy Sunday piece (thanks reader BB for sending). Johnny Milano's images accompany the piece.

Designed to be a “model for progressive gentrification” through its work with underprivileged and mostly black adolescent boys, the foundation is the vision of The Bridge Golf Club founder Robert Rubin and former golf writer Farrell Evans.

And it's not all about golf...

Both the Bridge Golf Foundation and the Eagle Academies include character education in their curriculums to encourage students’ social and emotional development. This summer, for example, the Bridge students read “The Pact,” a memoir about three young black men who, while growing up in Newark, promised one another they would become doctors and overcame hardships to fulfill their dream.