The Amy Jacques Garvey Institute is an 501(C) (3) Charitable organization providing educational, cultural, social, and training, services, programs, and activities primarily for, but not limited to, the residents and youth of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC). The Amy Jacques Garvey Institute (AJG) is named after the wife of the late Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Founder of the UNIA-ACL (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. These events take place for the purposes of establishing fellowship amongst the youth through cultural enrichment, workplace skills development, and exposure to real-life educational environments, guest speakers in various professions, volunteer opportunities, and community service. For over 20 years the Amy Jacques Garvey Institute has been quietly providing youth and adults with educational opportunities, job training, self-empowerment and financial workshops, placement assistance, social, economic and cultural programs and activities which focus on relieving suffering caused by poverty, disaster, long term sickness, and other human ills.

The mission of the Amy Jacques Garvey Institute is to educate, motivate, develop, inform, train and teach youth to become healthy enterprising citizens with moral enterprising citizens with healthy relationships. We have staff and volunteers. We have been serving 45 youth 33 of whom are in high school and 12 of them are in college or the workforce. AJG provides the youth with daily tutoring, life skills workshops, and leadership development training, as well as career development, daily life problem solving, as well as academic, and family support services. This is the most rewarding thing of all because we are able to utilize all our experiences and passions in serving the youth and their families in the District of Columbia and impact lives positively on a daily and consistent basis.