Word Is Bond

By Niels Bekema
Niels Bekema's stories

Welcome! Please stick around

You’ve entered a polity of literature: We’re here to support your writing. The eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) at The GOAT PoL work on eighty to a hundred stories at any given time, and each one is unique. Writing is a slow unpredictable process—the process that we support is ambitious. It’s hard work and it will take time.

 

Writing pays terribly. It takes so long! Writers at The GOAT PoL might get just pennies-per-hour by the time they’re done. You’ll earn more working for the Amazon MechanicalTurk (AMT). Don’t expect fast money.

 

The story you send is the starting place for a guided writing process that can take days, weeks, or even months. Please DON’T send writing that bores you. You should be deeply interested in the story you send. Be sure the story interests you enough to stick around, work hard on it, and complete it.

 

A note on artificial intelligence (AI): AI can be useful, but it cannot write an interesting story alone. You are a much more interesting writer than AI. If you use AI, tell your RAE about it. Please don’t send us boring stories written only by AI. Send us your writing, and tell your RAE how you made it.

 

 

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Our Mission: To rewrite the mission between young Black men and law enforcement through leadership development critical dialogue and engagement.

Word is Bond began in the summer of 2017 with the Rising Leaders summer internship program. The Rising Leaders program brings together a cohort of Black youth and a cohort of law enforcement officers to listen, learn and communicate through guided dialogue and engagement. Word is Bond’s goal is to empower young Black man and create space for dialogue with law enforcement officers.

Word is Bond serves young Black men ages 16-21 in the Portland metro area and has two programs: Rising Leaders, our paid summer internship, and Word Up, our school year leadership program.

This text is quoted from https://www.mywordisbond.org/. If that website is yours, please be in touch with The GOAT PoL if you want us to change or expand or remove this story. Thank you.

1 March, 2022