Pray Motion

Programs

Programs of Pray Motion

Food, warmth and real connection for our neighbors, and opportunity for the next generation.

Thankful Thursday

Every third Thursday of each month, we provide the homeless with food, blankets, socks, shoes and personal items. We visit homeless shelters, churches, parks, bus and train stations to accomplish this task.

Operation Giveback

Every Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas, we partner with low-income school systems to find families to adopt during the holiday season. We provide each family of four or more with a full turkey or ham dinner. We also provide coats and toys for the children.

Warm Blankets

Donate a warm blanket for people experiencing homelessness. A fresh blanket is often the one thing someone on the street needs most, and our teams hand them out directly on Thankful Thursdays and Live By visits.

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Live By

The rate of homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area is on the rise. There are multiple shelters, food banks and other services that provide this population with the basic necessities. Very few of these organizations are building relationships and creating impact by assisting them in overcoming the issues that resulted in their current situations. Pray Motion aims to assist the homeless and poverty-stricken by providing them an opportunity for a healthier life.

We believe that when you make a direct connection with a displaced person, you have more of an opportunity to provide them with some basic necessities that can open the door for greater impact. So we are hitting San Francisco with a different type of drive-by: a Live By. A Live By helps bring hope to homeless and poverty-stricken individuals through concise visits in a carefully designed effort to feed them with food and with thought.

Not all homeless people want to live elsewhere. Some believe in brushing their teeth; some would spend money given to them on a fresh blanket before clothes. Has anyone asked them?

As a pilot program, Pray Motion will ask. Pray Motion will identify 50 homeless individuals every month, while making sure everyone continues to feel safe, and provide them with a Live By Card. The Live By Card comes with food, and also serves as a pass with a time, day and date for them to receive the next items they have asked for and live by.

Three questions we ask

  1. What can I do to help you now?
  2. What can you not live without?
  3. If you could have one thing, what would it be?

Based on these questions, the Pray Motion team devises a plan for the following visit, bringing something identified in the answers along with resources that will help them have that “one” thing they would live by. The idea is to start small, but to provide the building blocks toward their overall desires. It may not be getting back to the workforce or finding housing, but it will help them feel that people care and want them to feel better about the possibilities they have, and hopefully see a clearer view of life and the things they can live by.

Young Innovators

As a hub of state-of-the-art information technology, the Young Innovators Initiative of Pray Motion serves as a secure high-tech environment offering our youth competitive advantages, career and business development, and support services to help evolving businesses, researchers and organizations excel in the global marketplace.

The purpose of the Young Innovators Initiative is to support innovation and entrepreneurship in information technology, and lead economic development in underserved communities. The initiative focuses its support in five areas:

  • Business Innovations
  • Education Innovations
  • Research Innovations
  • Networking Innovations
  • Workforce Readiness

Researchers, mentors, administrators and leaders in information technology companies are all part of a community of people who bring to life the ideas of the Young Innovators’ mission.

Partnership Program

Opportunities increase when you help others win. A little win for a partner is a little win for you.

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Looking Forward

Where Pray Motion is headed as we grow.

Workshops

Workshops will be provided on an ongoing basis that address all areas of life, such as financial planning, building self-esteem, conflict resolution, assertiveness training, how to start your own business, how to resolve family conflicts, parenting classes and a host of other topics. Workshops will also teach skills and coping strategies to help individuals who are trying to re-enter the workforce.

Clean and sober transitional housing

Our nonprofit will develop clean and sober transitional housing with a therapeutic, structured living community environment and activities, so recovering addicts can develop a healthy lifestyle without drugs or alcohol. Meetings will be held once a week, and AA and NA meetings will be required to help individuals with addiction issues. Activities will include a black-tie formal event and an annual three-day clean and sober conference with educational workshops on addiction, concerts and more as the organization grows.

A youth recreation center and safe parks

One of Pray Motion’s long-term goals is a recreation center for youth that includes a skating rink, bowling alley and a mass communication center, with dedicated programs to teach our youth the skills to work in audio engineering, radio, television and broadcasting.

Pray Motion would also like to provide a safe park and playground in low-income areas. By partnering with other nonprofit organizations to keep drugs, gangs and violence away from our children, we can ensure they have a safe and healthy place to play.

Vocational training and self-help groups

Pray Motion will develop a Vocational Services Training Program to help prepare youth and young adults to compete in the workforce, with resume writing, job club workshops, skills training, mock interviews and job coaching.

We will also run ongoing self-help groups for youth, families and adolescents, so they have a safe place to vent their frustrations and get feedback from their peers.

Youth mentoring and sports

Pray Motion will develop a mentoring program, a Big Brothers Program, to support youth as they move from high school to careers or vocational training, linking them with quality support and educational programs that meet their unique needs. Our youth development program will include field trips, sporting events, and training camps in low-income school systems in partnership with professional players, in football, baseball, basketball, soccer and more, to show youth that if they stay disciplined and focused, they can reach their goals.

Seminars and retreats

Pray Motion will periodically host seminars, conference calls and retreats to meet the spiritual needs of young adults and senior citizens. Most conferences will run 2–3 days, with breakout sessions covering topics that help everyone get the resources they need for a quality lifestyle.