The MICA League, Not Just Another Resource Center; James Bryant

The MICA League, Not Just Another Resource Center; James Bryant
by Van Stone vspfoundation@yahoo.com (215) 747-8746

Many large cities are in desperate shape as each year their population decreases due to the reduction of valuable financial resources and mentors that help its youth have self-confidence when they are about to enter the world of small business. But James Bryant, a graduate of Simon Gratz High School, Philadelphia, PA and a member of the Philadelphia NAACP is working very hard to end this type of desperation by directing business minded persons to become active in various community programs to promote economic development in big cities. One such program is the MICA League.

MICA stands for Mutual Interdependent Cooperative Auxiliary League, Inc. The MICA strives to build strengths in individuals that truly believe that the local community needs to step up and provide support through a headquarters that shares money, family, and firms, making the neighborhood better. And this community must quickly become what MICA calls a communiversity.

A communiversity is a fellowship in research and training for community economic development with historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) with various professional groups such as the National Medical Association, National Technical Association, National Bar Association, National Society of Black Engineers, National Association of Black Accountants, amongst others with the MICA League serving as the benefactor for overall outreach programs and projects.

The MICA League acquires other resources for its benefit and social entrepreneurship that big cities need to take some of the pressure off when things look like they just can’t seem to turn around for the moment. HBCU’s are very important to the MICA because they serve as a catalyst in expediting and facilitating programs to the community. They also perform research and training for community economic development.

MICA has the community resource center that builds its youth leadership forum. Youth, particularly black male youth, need to understand how MICA works for them. The MICA is a consortium of a cooperative economic commonwealth, an overall network system promoting socio-economic opportunities and community economic development such as a fellowship in cooperation with other professional groups. Many groups that do mentoring have self-help groups but few have the experience to give proper advice as advisors in career development. Big cities are very busy finding jobs and training for companies that are the business as usual those makes the city function. Since youth are not considered a business that must be maintained youth are left to fend for themselves.

Here’s where MICA comes in to help lighten the problem. They also train in leadership development and teach other skills that contribute to holistic development as well as collaborate with other grass root institutions to expedite programs in the communiversity. MICA League’s purpose of the Youth Leadership Forum is to undertake the process of developing leaders of the future who will be equipped to undertake responsibility in many capacities and confront challenge they will face. What else does MICA do to help big cites reduce desperation? There is a Mutual Benefit Exchange (MUBE), an affiliation that serves as a sponsor of the programs of the cooperative association. Youth need think-tanks to assist them regarding policies and mechanisms that concern youth development in big cities. And so, youth and small businesses that are interested in finding resources can contact the MICA online by visiting www.mutualbenefites.com.