Ken Bryant is a 26 year old entrepreneur and soon to be published, personal development author. He is an active member of Ford Memorial United Methodist Church in Detroit, where his father is the Pastor. He is an alumnus of Southfield Lathrup High School and The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Ken Bryant is the Chair of The United Nations Association-Greater Detroit Chapter’s Young Professionals for International Cooperation. As the Founder and President of Financial Freedom Fighters he is committed to creating new business owners as well as strengthening current business owners. His goal is to enrich the minds of millions for the purpose of not only achieving financial freedom, but even more importantly achieving an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

The United Nations Association-Greater Detroit Chapter’s Young Professionals for International Cooperation (YPIC) is dedicated to the enlightenment and empowerment of young professionals in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb County. We seek to educate and participate in local, national, and international: political; business; social; and humanitarian affairs. We are open to all individuals, regardless of their knowledge of local, national, and international affairs. This group is dedicated to growing with one another and putting our members and region in a position of influence. We are a group proud of our diversity in race, culture, and professions. We believe in reaching our local area first and then our global community. For example, our Literacy Committee has teamed up with the Detroit Public Library for the “Detroit Reads” project. This project takes literate individuals with the desire to teach the illiterate and train them absolutely free to become tutors. Adults 18 and older with the desire to increase their literacy are tutored for free by the volunteer tutors. We have now expanded to reach out to Liberia by becoming the primary partner with the ”Liberia Books Project.” This project, through the fundraising of collecting used textbooks across over 2500 college campuses, will attempt to generate $35 million dollars by 2015 to open Literacy Centers in Liberia and the U.S. As we help our local community, when then attempt to open our local community’s eyes to the global community who have similar needs, which in most cases are of greater need. Some of our past projects include our School Supply Giveaway. The Top of the City Soiree brought in poets and authors throughout the Detroit area, including WDIV’s Paula Tutman, and held a free mixer at the Renaissance Club. Enough money was raised to donate over 200 backpacks full of school supplies at Youthville Detroit at the beginning of this school year with the help of ThinkPal Detroit donating the backpacks. We teamed up with Project Producers for the Kem Benefit Concert at Cass Park and fed the homeless with a free concert afterwards. Our Palmer Park Clean Up helped to keep the city of Detroit looking its best. Our next community outreach project will have a huge impact for families in dire need in the City of Detroit. We will adopt 5 families for Thanksgiving, and 5 families for Christmas providing homemade cooked meals for both holidays. In addition, we will provide the  families during Christmas with toys and clothes as well. We just held a Detroit Candidates Mixer at the Signature Grill in Detroit and got to meet the candidates personally and ask questions dear to our hearts. We are a very professional group, yet very fun. We balance seminars, workshops, summits, forums, and debates with mixers, group trips, speed dating/networking, cook-outs, movie outings, and sports (bowling.) We are a national organization that addresses international affairs, but always keep our local Greater Detroit Area at the forefront of our concerns.

http://unausa.org/ypic

Ken Bryant will be hosting The Book Club Mix & Mingle November 14, 2009 at 3:30pm, helping the event collect books of all types and lend a helping hand all weekend long.

If you’d like to donate books, please contact him at: kenbryan@umich.edu

If you’d lie to register in advance for the Book Club Mix & Mingle which is FREE TO THE PUBLIC, please go to: http://essenceofmotown2009.eventbrite.com