Concerned Black Men of Richmond Conducts 1st 2025-2026 Session: Preparing for Success

October 10, 2025

Greetings all,

The Concerned Black Men of Richmond conducted our first activity of the 25/26 session entitled “Study Skills: Preparing for Success.”  It was held at Franklin Military Academy on September 27^th.  There were 20 mentees and 8 mentors at the activity.  We started with introductions and went over the purpose of developing good study habits and why they’re important.

Fred Wright went over the CBM Grade Challenge where they were given steps to advocate for themselves to increase their grades when necessary.  There was a discussion on each step and the mentees went over their way of doing each of them.  

Next, we took a break before lunch to challenge the mentees to a manual dexterity exercise.  They were required to pick up 5 pens one at a time and set them down the same way.  They found out quickly that it was harder than it appeared but most were successful.

After lunch, we presented the mentees to another challenge where they asked to race each other picking up tumblers and stacking them starting from the same start line, but picking them up in reverse order.  This was a good way for them to work off some of that pizza that was served and they really enjoyed it!  See it on Instagram @cbmrichmond.

We wrapped up the activity with a survey from them inquiring about how much time they spend on homework, how they prepare for testing and the amount of sleep they are getting nightly.

The Concerned Black Men of RVA are pleased to see the number of mentees that returned for this session!  We are looking forward working with each of these young men and are confident that they will achieve great things in the future!  Thanks, to each of you for your interest and contributions to our organization.  It means the world to our youth and the communities we serve.

Sincerely,
Tim Mallory, President CBM/RVA

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