Since its inception, FGA’s mission is to balance the need to generate reasonable profits with job creation and development of youth education & life skills initiatives in U.S. inner cities like Camden, NJ. Although a For-Profit company, FGA is categorized as a social entrepreneurial enterprise because we focus on making a positive impact on the community. For example, our P.I.N.S. Training Program addresses the rise in unemployment due to conditions such as the Pandemic by pairing job training with companies and businesses that are committed to apprenticeships and hiring.
With a vision to meet the needs of the community by investing in its youth, creating meaningful jobs that sustains families and providing pathways for greater personal and professional growth. FUNctional Games Apparel and the Jump Shot® brand. This is achieved by sustainable initiatives via a hybrid of Social Entrepreneurship; where profit is the goal yet how it is distributed and for what purposes, distinguishes us from most businesses.
COVID-19 drastically delayed the launch of the FGA company as well as its ability to open its facility in Camden, manufacture its products in Camden and begin its jobs training program based in Camden. This significant time-lapse drained FGA’s capital considerably. We had to pivot and secure temporary manufacturing capabilities overseas to launch.
With your support, we can do the following: really make high quality products at reasonable prices here in the U.S., provide living wage to support our workers, provide scholarships for the training program, and make a difference by solving problems in our communities one youth at a time.
P.I.N.S. Training Program
Our Professional Industrial National Seamstress (P.I.N.S.) Training Program addresses the rise in unemployment due to conditions such as the Pandemic by pairing job training with companies and businesses that are committed to apprenticeships and hiring.
Youth Training Initiatives
Serving is in our DNA at FGA and the Jump Shot® brand. We quietly develop, help fund and provide the volunteers for initiatives and programs that Encourage, Inspire & Educate youth to better prepare for the purposes they have all been created to fulfill.
* Arthur K. Brown Life Skills Program at Camden County Boys and Girls Club – 8 -10 Week Biblically based Life Skills program and Basketball league where Health & Nutrition is also introduced to youth participants.
* Hollywood TV/Film Audition & Workshops (Hollywood, FL) – Youth initiative designed to develop the next generations of Content Producers who better reflect God and their family’s values in the Artwork, Films, Videos, Books, Songs and Video games that they create. Participants are from: Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, and Internationally: Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Ghana and expanding.
* StepIn Stones To Excellence – Youth Organization that focuses on South Jersey and Shore area programs regarding Basic life skills, Education and Economics. It Operates as a grass roots social action group that truly identifies and meets the needs of its communities.
* FGA Executive Management Internship Program – College age young people are provided executive business training, social entrepreneurship training, mentoring and unique career opportunities. Program participants are actually at the decision making table, encouraged to provide insight and critical thinking as well as manage their own projects.