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The Ezekiel Taylor Foundation is a 501(c)3 that provides mentorship, job readiness, life-skill programming, and college financial assistance to African-American males in the Chicago area who attend, or seek to attend, an accredited college, university or trade school. Named after the late Ezekiel Taylor, who was innocently killed on the South Side of Chicago, the foundation identifies young Black men who have been impacted by Chicago’s senseless gun violence. ETSF provides hope and opportunity and we educate, empower and encourage young men.
The Ezekiel Taylor Scholarship Foundation has awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships in under five years.
The founder Tenisha Taylor-Bell started the foundation five years ago because her father was murdered during her early developmental years by a group teenagers on the streets of Chicago. Seeing her mother struggles to put her through College and Grad School, she made it her mission once she was established to reach back and make sure that the male teenagers in the CPS system had options of workshops, grants and scholarships to ensure their educational needs and make sure that they stayed off the streets.
So the EZTaylor Scholarship Foundation was established.
"To create a better life, EDUCATION is the key."
