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Real
Life 101
Raises
Money
for
Local
Detroit
High
School
Seniors
 DETROIT,
MI -
Real
Life 101
Scholarship
Fund is
proud of
its 15
years of
service.
RL101
currently
has 162
students
in
Colleges
and
Universities
all over
America
as a
NATIONAL
organization.
Real
Life is
currently
operating
in 10
states
and 26
High
Schools.
On
Monday,
August
25, 2014
RL
hosted
its 7th
Annual
College
Educational
Golf
Fundraiser
to raise
funds
that
will
support
its
national
initiative
of
changing
the
perception
of black
males in
America
and the
young
men that
attending
college
through
the
organization.
On
behalf
of Real
Life
101, we
would
like to
thank
all of
the
sponsors,
donors,
volunteers,
mentors,
staff,
family
and
friends
for
their
generous
support
of the
outing.
If you
missed
this
year’s
event,
consider
attending
next
year. It
is
always a
great
time!
"This
was our
best one
ever. We
sold out
2 golf
courses,
2 teams
deep and
had 170
dinner
participants.
On top
of that
my team
won the
1st
place
trophy
and one
of my
team
members
had a
hole-in-one.
This was
the
first
hole-in-one
that I
ever
witnessed
in my 21
years of
playing
golf",
said Sid
E.
Taylor.
Founded
in 2000
by
businessman
Sid E.
Taylor
(Founder
and
Chairman
of SET
Enterprises,
Inc.),
Real
Life 101
Scholarship
Fund
started
by
providing
10
scholarships
to 10
graduating
seniors
in
Detroit,
MI. In
2006,
the
organization
expanded
their
program
to
provide
100 at
risk
African
American
male
students
graduating
from 10
high
schools
in the
City of
Detroit
a
$1000.00
scholarship
for a
period
of 5
years, a
laptop
computer
and a
certified
and
trained
mentor.
Since
the
inception
of Real
Life 101
in 2000
through
2014,
over
$1.5
million
dollars
($1,500,000)
in
scholarships
and 1500
laptop
computers
have
been
awarded
to
graduating
Inner
City
Public
School
students.
This is
due to
the
generous
support
of our
donors
and
board
members
who
volunteer
their
time to
raise
funds
for the
Real
Life 101
Scholarship
program.
“The
ultimate
goal for
Real
Life 101
is to
see the
troubling
statistics
for
young
African
American
male’s
change,
along
with the
goal of
seeing
these
young
men
obtain
their
degrees
or
develop
a
certification
in a
designated
skill,”
said Sid
E.
Taylor.
“We also
have
plans to
expand
to every
state in
America
in order
to have
a
measurable
impact
on this
pervasive
problem
with
black
males in
America.”
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