Hoodstock Foundation, Inc. Provides on-site group mentoring and youth leadership development including personal responsibility, rites
of passage, urban education and community awareness to youth and adults. Hoodstock Foundation, Inc. Will provides urban education
and community awareness services to several Youth Program, Our program offers a stimulating array of quality services and information
that Will help youth broaden their knowledge and understanding of themselves, their community and their future. The program provides
training, mentoring, workshops and activities that focus on urban education and community awareness
- Goal Setting
- Communication Skills Blueprint for Workplace Success
- Career Development
- Life Skills/Interpersonal Development Cultural Development and Education
The Hoodstock Urbanites is a cohesive group of community leaders, fathers, mothers, husbands, wives and concerned citizens who
work to empower their community to curtail the effects of the miss urban-education and community awareness to youth and adults
though, urban entertainment, sports and culture. Each year many of the community’s unsung and Concerned Citizens Will be
recognized with the “Juanita Tate Award” at the Gathering known as Hoodstock Breakfast. The Hoodstock Foundation Inc’s Pioneer
Awards Program Will recognize legendary urban artists, athletes, entertainers and cultural figures whose lifelong contributions civil and
otherwise that have been instrumental in the development of sports, music, entertainment and culture as we know and have now. In
addition, The Spirit of Central Avenue Award is awarded to youths who have completed the Hoodstock Urban Youth Leadership
Development Training.
The Steven L. Hicks is for the youth that is active in the community and music with good grades.
EDUCATION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Hoodstock Foundation, Inc. In partnership with Concerned Citizen,of South Central Los Angeles Inc. We are developing a new
educational system for urban entertainment, sports and culture to introduced to the school system. The current projects include building
a Hoodstock's Hall of Legends Museum, Educational and Cultural Center in the city of Los Angeles on the corner of one of the most
historic urban streets in the city, in The Central Plaza located on Jefferson and Central. And the above mentioned tours, projects the
educational system that we are working on Will help with the re-education and re development of urban communities. These projects
have brought together a cadre of professionals including development consultants, urban sports, entertainment and culture consultants
and related specialist in the field of educational development. In addition, these projects Will have the full support of local citizens and
the Los Angeles City Council.
THE HOODSTOCK PIONEER AWARDS PROGRAM
The Hoodstock Foundation Inc’s Pioneer Awards Program Will recognize legendary urban artists, athletes, entertainers and cultural
figures whose lifelong contributions Civil and otherwise that have been instrumental in the development of sports, music, entertainment
and culture as we know and have now. The annual gala honors there career’s, achievements of those who are nominated and selected by
members of our board of directors; and, as part of The Hoodstock Foundation Inc’s Pioneer Award, each recipient receives an
honorarium. At the Hoodstock Foundation Museum. The Hoodstock Foundation Inc’s Pioneer Awards Program Will award million
dollars to worthy honorees and Will continue to honor these legendary sports, music, entertainment and cultural figures of this great
worldwide urban culture.
The Fritz Pollard Scholarship Fund
The Hoodstock Foundation, Inc. (HSF) is proud to make available…
The Fredrick Douglas “Fritz “Pollard Scholarship Fund.
(HSF) Hoodstock Foundation Inc. Is a non-profit community urban based organization, founded in 2005. Hoodstock Foundation Inc. Is
an urban based non-profit organization created to celebrate the legacy, history and its world wide impact though the re education of
youth and adults in urban culture via sports, entertainment and culture. Hoodstock Foundation Inc. Will provide services for the world
as a groundbreaking organization with its own museum facility to be used as an Educational and Cultural Center that displays to the
world the impact that these entities have had in the urban community and humanity world wide. The museum Will house the artifacts
from the several sources including historical event called “Hoodstock Summit”, “Hoodstock Tour” & “The Barnstorming Game Series”
as we Will archive the artifacts that formed this urban culture and the world that it has been impacted by it. For the purpose of the re-
education and to development of an urban based sports, entertainment cultural program in the school system for this purpose we
became a re-education and re defining the urban driven organization.
(HSF) The Hoodstock Foundation Inc. Provides networking, empowerment and is a support group for our
ban based sports, entertainment, and culture in these related fields: radio, recorded music, film, and television, print. In addition to other
related entertainment sports industry fields. HSF is dedicated to developing the next generation of leader.
Our educational programs and services are designed to provide students with the tools and resources they need to succeed in attaining a
higher education and become tomorrow's leaders. With education and career advancement being among the primary focuses of the
organization, we believe in order to advance, one must learn. We further believe there is no better way to express our desire to promote
advancement through education than to award a college student with funds to nourish their needs to learn.
Frederick Douglass Pollard (Fritz Pollard), an All-America halfback from Brown University was a pro football pioneer in more ways
than one. The 5-9, 165-pound back, who led Brown University to the Rose Bowl in 1915, And was the first black to play in the Rose
Bowl, He turned pro in 1919, when he joined the Akron (OH) Pros following army service during World War I. In 1920, the Pros
joined the newly founded American Professional Football.” Association later renamed the national Football League ( NFL) That season ,
with Pollard leading the charge, the Pros went undefeated ( 8-0-3) to win the league’s first crown. As a member of the new league,
Pollard immediately earned a place in pro football history as one of just two African Americans in the new league.
In 1921 he earned another distinction becoming the first African American head coach in NFL history when the Pros named him co-
coach of the team. Contemporary accounts indicate that Pollard, an exciting elusive runner, was the most feared running back in the
fledgling league. During his pro football career the two-time All-America played and sometimes coached for four different NFL teams,
the Pros/Indians (1920-21/1925-26), the Milwaukee Badgers (1922), the Hammond Pros (1923, 1925), and the Providence Steam Roller
(1925). Fritz also spent time in 1923 and 1924 playing for the Gilberton Cadamounts, a strong independent pro team in the
Pennsylvania “Coal League
In 1928, Pollard organized and coached the Chicago Black Hawks, an all-African American professional team based in the Windy City.
Pollard's Black Hawks played against white teams around Chicago, but enjoyed their greatest success by scheduling exhibition games
against West Coast teams during the winter months. From 1929 until 1932 when the Depression caused the team to fold, the Black
Hawks had become one of the more popular team Pollard's career was completed prior to the NFL's first championship game. Up until
1933, the NFL's champion was determined by the best win-loss record during the regular season. Pollard was a key member of the
NFL's first champions, the Akron Pros who posted a league-best 8-0-3 record in the league's inaugural season in 1920.
Fritz Pollard found the first black investment firm F.D. Pollard and company, He established first weekly black tabloid (N.Y.
Independent News). Pollard also managed Suntan Movie Studios in Harlem and founded a coal delivery companies in both Chicago and
New York, and a theatrical agent he booked black talent in white clubs in New York. And also was a tax consultant in Harlem for the
poor.
He also did: First African American elected to National College Football Hall of Fame (1954) ... Elected to Rhode Island Heritage Hall of
Fame (1967) ... Elected to Brown Athletic Hall of Fame (1971, the inaugural year) ... Elected to National Black Hall of Fame (1973) ...
Honorary Doctor of Letters (LL.D.) conferred by Brown University (1981) ... Selected for Brown’s 125th Anniversary All-Time Team
(2003) ... Selected to Pro Football Hall of Fame (2005
Because of his willingness to teach, mentor, support and bring others into the fold, HSF finds it befitting to honor him contributions by
creating this scholarship in his name. This scholarship Will be awarded at the (HSF) Hoodstock Summit during the "Hoodstock Heritage
Awards."
The scholarship application is easily available via the HSF website www.Hoodstock.org. The deadline for submitting the application is
April 1st of each calendar year; the recipient Will be announced by February 1st of the next year (incomplete applications and late
applications Will not be evaluated). A check, made out to the scholarship recipient and the school, Will be forwarded to the school from
HSF no later than August 15th of the award year. The recipient Will be scheduled to attend the annual HSF Hoodstock Summit to
receive the scholarship citation.
Questions or concerns should be addressed to Noreen Mcclendon Scholarship Coordinator at (323) 371-4644 email
Fritzpollardsports_scholarship@hoodstock.org , or via written correspondence sent to:
