The vision of Familyhood is attained when Familyhood’s, intergenerational, systemic approach is functioning at all the school levels and operating for 20 years in collaboration. 20 years means both Familyhood motto’s are attained and have been systemically functioning for 10 years of active production of Alumni/Alumnae.  produces its Alumni The two mottoes of Familyhood are: 1) Every school shall have a functioning Student Government Association, Parent Teacher Association and Alumni Association and Friends of School (basically everyone else who wants to get involved). 2) Every school shall have a garden, a farmers’ market and a grocery store. In essence, Familyhood is an inter-generational approach of utilizing the schools own organizations to promote governance and leadership from within the community,  while improving our food  system. The math formula of a school’s Familyhood is: SGA + PTA + AA + FOS = FAM To read this formula out loud, SGA stands for the Student Government Association. PTA stands for Parent Teacher Association and AA stands for Alumni Association and FOS stands for Friends of the School and FAM is short for Familyhood. As mentioned above, the means of production of Familyhood is the production of Alumni. Familyhood defines Alumni as graduates of school’s who return to mentor the Student Government Association and who are active members in their Alumni Association. Familyhood’s main goal is to create a pipeline between schools  Student Government Association and their Alumni Association and the community they live. The “do now” strategy to get started towards Familyhood is 1^st Saturdays – representing the 1^st Saturday of every month as the official monthly volunteer day to review the two motto’s mentioned above. Remember? O.k. Again. The two mottoes are: 1) Every school shall have a functioning Student Government Association, Parent Teacher Association and Alumni Association. 2) Every school shall have a garden, a farmers’ market and a grocery store. Schools meet once a month, every 1^st Saturday of the month to increase the membership of their organization, share updates, while working to improve their food system, while building their local community, while enabling students hands -on work experience, while teaching every student the ability of growing their own food, while networking with local business leaders, while have some fun! Schools sign-up at 1stSaturdays.com To learn more about Familyhood, buy my E-Book called “The Familyhood Handbook“. You can also follow the Familyhood on Twitter.com/familyhood, Twitter.com/1stsaturdays. In addition to Familyhood’s long-term goal of advancing Oakland into “The Black” through student government leaders becoming Alumni leaders of their community, Black in Oakland.com is providing space for local businesses to join our business directory and providing space for promoters to share their cultural events. Follow all the above at:  Black in Oakland.com at twitter.com/blackinoakland and Facebook.com/BlackinOakland.