{"id":3987,"date":"2022-01-28T13:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:16:36","slug":"planting-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/planting-empowerment\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n 2006, <span style=\"color: #008085\"><strong>Logan S. Herring Sr. \u201904<\/strong><\/span> was approached by his older brother with an offer. How would you like to start an organization to help kids and make $40,000 a year doing it? he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in 2006, as an early twenty-something, $40,000 annually sounded like a lot of money,\u201d Herring said. The idea was that Herring, his brother, and Herring\u2019s friend Eugene Young Jr. would start a nonprofit in Wilmington, DE, where they were from, offering mentoring and basketball for young men, particularly for young Black men in need of holistic support. They named the organization Delaware Elite and went all in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still waiting on that 40,000,\u201d said a smiling Herring. They put all the money they raised right back into the program. It was hard work, and they each felt their sacrifice. Herring\u2019s brother, who was already established in business, had put up a lot of the seed money, and Herring and Young devoted much of their 20s to supporting kids through the program, at times feeling like they were raising kids themselves. Altogether, several hundred boys attended the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of it was really heavy emotionally,\u201d Herring said.<\/p>\n<p>Starting out, Herring didn\u2019t know just how much they would have to sacrifice, but he knows it was worth it. \u201cWe learned so much from this journey, and there were so many seeds planted,\u201d Herring said. They made connections with major funders and absorbed every lesson they could.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Young is the head of the Delaware State Housing Authority, and Herring is the CEO of The WRK Group, an organization of three nonprofits, The Warehouse, REACH Riverside, and Kingswood Community Center. In 2021, Herring was named Delaware Business Times\u2019 CEO of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Herring was first tapped in 2016 to take over as the interim director for Kingswood, which was struggling to stay afloat. It didn\u2019t have any services for teens, and Herring saw an opportunity. The CDC had published a report the year before declaring that gun violence in Wilmington had reached the levels of an epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>After securing funding for Kingswood and turning its finances around, Herring and his team proposed taking over a nearby warehouse and bringing in all the local teen-service providers under one roof. Soon, the Warehouse was born, albeit in a school building instead. They hired teenagers to take part in the design and programming, which is part of the ethos of The WRK Group. \u201cSometimes all they need is a little bit of support, encouragement, to empower them to control their own destiny,\u201d Herring said.<\/p>\n<p>REACH Riverside followed in 2018, which works with the residents of Wilmington\u2019s Riverside neighborhood to build it into a thriving community. The donors he met through Delaware Elite are some of his group\u2019s biggest funders today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose seeds have been planted for a long time,\u201d Herring said, \u201cand are now starting to flourish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Herring will be recognized at the February 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/community.goucher.edu\/jewellrsvp\">Jewell Robinson Dinner<\/a>. For more information, contact the Alumnae\/i Office at alumni@goucher.edu or 410-337-6180.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan S. 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