INTRODUCTION
As is always the case at rallies against violence, there will be eloquent and impassioned speeches about the need for self-esteem, the value of education and the importance of conflict resolution. What won't be in the offing are easy answers about how to deal with the plague of gun violence.

Todd Elliott Koger wants to rebuild Pittsburgh's BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS "from the ground up!" He wants a broad city-wide subsidized jobs program that will guarantee a minimum income for BLACK FAMILIES and give BLACK BOYS and GIRLS an education, job, and house to live in.

NEED
In the past six months shootings in Pittsburgh have increased 10 percent and gun assaults are up 44 percent. 71 of 88 BLACK LIVES so far in 2015.

88 of 105 BLACK LIVES in 2014, the highest murder total in five years. Black boys and girls have lost confidence in Pittsburgh orderly system of doing things.

For too too long now black boys and girls have been oppressed and neglected by the great weight of poverty and a broken education system. Pittsburgh black neighborhoods are "pitiless Darwinian testing ground" in which black youth must now everyday try NOT to be killed. society's emptiness for their needs is frightening.

America must reckon with this moral debt. There is no other way to stop the primordial behavior that now kills without feelings or judgment.

Unemployment, poverty, declining physical structures, single-parent households, violent crime, drug-related activity, poor health, and hunger are all among the problems suffered disproportionately.

TARGETED POPULATION
The target communities have a high incidence of (1) violent crime evidenced by a high rate of calls of police service; (2) drug-related activity as evidence by sales and known crack houses; (3) economic deprivation evidenced by substantially high unemployment, food stamps dependency and public assistance; and, (4) an elevated high school dropout rate. As the litany suggests, the needs are great.

VISION
Todd Elliott Koger's proposal is a PLAN to teach black youth everything for demolition of blighted structures, to site preparation, brick laying, electrical work, plumbing, home building, and other.

The best way for black boys and girls to get better is to let them "with their own hand" clear the land and rebuild things. A PLAN to build NEW black neighborhoods right in the middle of the old.

They just need one person. One person!!! To never give up on them.

FISCAL SYSTEMS
The fiscal system will maintain a set of accounts of original entry under a system of sound internal accounting and administrative control to the extent necessary to document all transactions and to evaluate and permit audits of the system. Such provisions will provide control and assurances as to safeguarding all assets and funds received against loss from unauthorized use or disposition.

Todd Elliott Koger's Funding Campaign
Citizens Bank
5550 Centre Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa 15232