CURRENT PROJECT
(Please see listing below)
Rahfeal C. Gordon Scholarship
In 2005, Rahfeal Gordon established the Rahfeal C. Gordon Scholarship. The foundation raises money to create scholarships to benefit high school and college students with average grades, but whom exhibit exceptional business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit. The Rahfeal C. Gordon Scholarship is available for all high school seniors, college undergraduates, and graduate students around the world.
The Whitney Dinner: A Holiday Dinner for Single Parent Mothers Living in Shelters
The mission of this project is to inspire and provide resources to better the lives of mothers who are living in shelters within the city of Newark, New Jersey.
In 1989, Whitney Houston, a legendary American singer, actress, producer, and model formed The Whitney Houston Foundation For Children, a foundation that aided sick and homeless children, worked toward the prevention of child abuse, provided literacy programs for children, and created parks and playgrounds in the inner cities. Through her foundation, Whitney hosted Christmas parties for children and families who temporarily lived in shelters in Newark, New Jersey. Whitney’s dinner made it possible for many families to celebrate Christmas together. As a young boy, Rahfeal Gordon was fortunate enough to attend a Whitney Houston holiday dinner. That event had a lasting impact on Rahfeal, imprinting his mission to serve.
Rahfeal has made a personal commitment to keep Whitney’s holiday tradition going every year in the month of December. Every year, he host
the annual Whitney Dinner dedicated to the residents at The Apostle House. The annual holiday dinner serves to provide a gift of support, holiday spirit and to champion those mothers who are navigating their way back from challenging circumstances. The Apostle House is recognized for its continued platform to serve, as it once was a temporary safe haven for Rahfeal, his siblings and mother during his childhood. Since the start of this annual event, Rahfeal has served over 100 single parent mothers living in the shelter.
The Global Leadership Society
The Global Leadership Society is an international network and project that will bring together a diverse group of global leaders from around the world to work in solidarity to eradicate issues such as inequality, poverty, and regional conflict by sharing ideas, creating strategies, and launching global campaigns to bring peace and unity to areas of conflict around the world.
Annual My Ice Cream Dream
“My Ice Cream Dream" event is a celebration of community service. The event focuses on inspiring youth within the community to dream big. Rahfeal Gordon, along with his staff, partners with Cold Stone Creamery to demonstrate how one little scoop of ice cream can spark the imagination of a child’s mind. The event brings families and community leader together to enjoy a day with the conversation and ice cream.
Portraits of Serving Project
Rahfeal Gordon created a project to inspire people within their community around the world to serve those less fortune. Rahfeal plans to spend a few hours in New York City and Newark, New Jersey to drop off what he calls, “ A bag of inspiration” to those living on the streets within these two states. Each bag will consist of toiletries, sandwiches, juice, snacks, an uplifting letter from one of the project sponsors, and an autographed copy of ONE23: A Compelling Memoir written by Rahfeal Gordon.
While Rahfeal roams around various parts of the cities to drop off these bags of inspiration, he plans to capture his day on film and through picture. The RahGor Team will create an online picture gallery, RahGor TV episode and blog entry of the entire day. His hopes are that more people will be inspire by his actions and take the initiative to find creative ways to inspire and help those within their own communities around the world.
VOICES FOR WORLD PEACE
Rahfeal Gordon is the co-founder of Voices for World Peace, which is a project and subdivision under the organization, Dialogue for Peace. The mission of Dialogue for Peace is to work for peace and reconciliation in areas of conflict and the promotion of respect for human rights internationally.
Voices for World Peace is a platform that brings together a diverse group of global leaders and youth to work in solidarity to eradicate issues such as extremism, terrorism, and inequality by sharing ideas and creating strategies to bring peace and unity to areas of conflict around the world.