Punch4Pounds

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🥊 Greensboro’s future workforce is already here.

Too often, young people are defined by the challenges around them instead of the strengths, ideas, and potential within them.

Presented by Empowering Communities From Within Inc. in partnership with Greensboro Parks & Recreation

Skills Pay the Bills™ is designed to help young people ages 14–18 see themselves and be seen by others as capable, valuable, employable, and ready to lead.

Eligible youth ages 16–18 may also be connected to work-based learning and pre-apprenticeship pathways.

📍 Xperience @ Caldcleugh
🕡 Tuesdays & Thursdays | 6:30–8:30 PM

Potential → Skills → Opportunity → Earned Income → long-term stability

Our young people need access, structure, and opportunity.

Where potential can become preparation, and preparation can become a pathway.

Build skills. Build confidence. Build futures.

ParksnRecs

🥊 Greensboro’s future workforce is already here.

Too often, young people are defined by the challenges around them instead of the strengths, ideas, and potential within them.

Presented by Empowering Communities From Within Inc. in partnership with Greensboro Parks & Recreation

Skills Pay the Bills™ is designed to help young people ages 14–18 see themselves and be seen by others as capable, valuable, employable, and ready to lead.

Eligible youth ages 16–18 may also be connected to work-based learning and pre-apprenticeship pathways.

📍 Xperience @ Caldcleugh
🕡 Tuesdays & Thursdays | 6:30–8:30 PM

Potential → Skills → Opportunity → Earned Income → long-term stability

Our young people need access, structure, and opportunity.

Where potential can become preparation, and preparation can become a pathway.

Build skills. Build confidence. Build futures.

Skills Pay the Bills™ — Build Skills. Build Futures. A free Greensboro youth leadership and workforce exposure experience for ages 14–18, with advanced pathways for eligible participants ages 16–18.

Happy Father’s Day gift to myself! Strong Mind Challenge today, 42yrs young! Felt good gloving up! Enduring Freedom Boxer | CEO, Punch4Pounds

Behind every statistic is a young person.

Before outcomes become data points, they are decisions, relationships, setbacks, growth, and second chances.

Amarrion's journey reminds me why this work matters.

What began as intervention evolved into leadership.

What began as supervision evolved into accountability.

What began as risk evolved into resilience.

The goal has never been to simply keep youth busy.

The goal is to help young people build the skills, confidence, and support systems necessary to become leaders in their homes, schools, workplaces, and communities.

Here's what changed.

And that's what prevention looks like.

The Portal

Big energy in the gym today. 🥊

Had Calvin Ford’s amateur boxing team out of Baltimore, MD pull up—featuring two #1 ranked amateurs.

Real work. Real respect.
Coaches, parents, and young fighters all locked in.

This is what it’s about—building bridges through boxing and giving the next generation a platform to grow.

Punch4Pounds™ x The Movement
— 🥇

This isn’t just a certificate.
This is alignment—and a vision coming to life.

Today, TUFH LLC—our workforce arm under the Punch4Pounds movement—became a State of North Carolina Registered Apprenticeship Program.

That’s the proof.
But this is bigger than a title.

Through Punch4Pounds , Empowering Communities From Within, and TUFH LLC, we’ve been building something different.

For too long, people have had to bounce between systems:

Behavioral Health
*Skill-building & discipline
*Jobs & workforce programs

Same people… different doors… no connection.

So we built the bridge.

What you’re seeing in these pictures is:
*Where we are right now (real space, real work)
*And where we’re going (the vision we’re building toward)

Because this isn’t just about programs.

It’s about creating a pathway:

*Stabilize
*Learn skills
*Get certified
*Get employed

That’s how we move from:
Intervention → Real opportunity

And we didn’t need new funding to do it.

We aligned what already exists—and now we’re building the space to match the vision.

This is just the beginning.