In the News
What’s better than one leader? Two
Co-Leadership, In the News, Think PiecesWe are excited to share the organization’s official shift to a new leadership model. Back in September 2020, Raymond A. Jetson, MetroMorphosis’ Founder and Chief Executive Catalyst, began co-leading the organization with Sherreta Harri...
Metromorphosis celebrates 10 years of serving urban neighborhoods
10Year, In the News, JanuaryBy Shannon Heckt, BR Proud BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – For ten years now Metromorphosis has been working to highlight the resources in inner-city neighborhoods throughout Baton Rouge to better set up those communities for success. Wh...
Eugene Collins, NAACP receive Metromorphosis Pacesetter Award
10Year, In the News, JanuaryBy WAFB Staff BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – The Baton Rouge NAACP branch and its president, Eugene Collins, received the Metromorphosis Pacesetter Award on Monday, Jan. 17. The Pacesetter Award is for those who make major contributions to im...
About the AARP® Purpose Prize® Award
In the News2022 AARP Purpose Prize Winners PHOTOS BY (LEFT TO RIGHT): PHILIP CHEUNG, ANDRÉ CHUNG, STEPHANIE DIANI, CRAIG MULCAHY, STEPHEN VOSS 2022 winners (LEFT TO RIGHT): Bill Bracken, Ify Nwabuku, Rita Zimmer, Raymond Jetson, Alan Miller By AAR...
VCs aren’t paying attention to nonprofit tech. They should be.
In the NewsThe need for tech in nonprofits is great. The need for investment in startups that serve them is greater. By Aisha Counts, Protocol The odds were stacked against Sevetri Wilson when she set out to raise funding for her startup Resilia. ...
Sherreta R. Harrison on Encore.org
In the NewsOriginally published on Encore.org Sustainability Catalyst, MetroMorphosisBaton Rouge, LALinkedIn@Sher_Ree_Tah Sustaining the social sector through intergenerational co-leadership models “We must reimagine leadership in a way that bala...
Raymond Jetson Urges Black Elders To Mentor
In the NewsBy Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue Raymond Jetson’s passion, which led him to be a 2020 Influencer in Aging, is motivating older Black men to mentor Black youth and young adults. The pandemic’s brutal impacts on the African American comm...
Baton Rouge receives $5 million award to fund Plank Road Masterplan
In the NewsSource: WBRZ By: WBRZ Staff BATON ROUGE – Build Baton Rouge, the redevelopment authority of East Baton Rouge Parish, will be using funds from a $5 million award to fund the Plank Road Masterplan’s initiative to eliminate blight, grow s...
Baton Rouge Native Wins Gen2Gen Innovation Fellowship
In the NewsPublished in SwagHer Magazine Encore.org today announced that Sherreta Harrison of MetroMorphosis, a Baton Rouge nonprofit, has been selected as one of 15 Gen2Gen Innovation Fellows, a group of the nation’s most talented innovators and ...
Raymond Jetson: Change is coming, driven by our young activists
In the NewsBy Raymond Jetson for The Advocate Eight minutes and 46 seconds. Rarely has so much transpired in so little time. None of the actors in this tragedy could begin to comprehend the impact of the moment. Not the police officer pressing his...
Cox Communications, ExxonMobil join forces to provide $30,000 for student technology
In the NewsBy WBRZ Staff BATON ROUGE- Cox Communications and ExxonMobil Baton Rouge are joining forces with several non-profit organizations to provide technology to support students learning from home in East Baton Rouge Parish. The companies anno...
Gov. Edwards announces funds for the Health Equity Task Force
In the NewsApril 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM CDT – Updated April 24 at 6:39 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Governor John Bel Edwards announced the creation of the Health Equity Task Force Friday, April 10 during his daily COVID-19 media briefing. The task f...
OPINION: A Call to Older Black Men: It’s Time to Fight for Youth
In the NewsBy Raymond A. Jetson for Next Avenue Just a few weeks ago, 24 African-American teenage boys from a local high school in my Baton Rouge, La. community were recommended for suspension. Their crime: participating in a “fight club.” The...
Hair & Health Highlighted In The Advocate
In the News, Black men health, Hair and Health, hypertension, Urban Congress“Black men’s attention to their health leaves a lot to be desired,” Jetson said, “and hypertension is especially an issue for people of color.” So now when guys head to the barbershop — so far 10 are participating — they also c...
Barbershops’ Hair & Health provides easy health monitoring for African-American men
In the NewsBY PAM BORDELON for The Advocate “It’s the African-American male’s country club — the original man cave.” That’s how the Rev. Raymond Jetson, founder of the nonprofit MetroMorphosis, describes the barbershop, that place wher...
The Village Does Not Exist In Isolation | Op-Ed
In the News, #TheVillageRenewed, communityby Donney Rose May 2, 2019 Just over three weeks ago the Urban Congress on African American Males, an initiative of MetroMorphosis, hosted its annual General Convening. The convening’s theme, #TheVillageRenewed, permeated the course of...
Reclaim elders as leaders and mentors
In the NewsBy Raymond Jetson | Published in The Advocate Last week, Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and Chief Murphy Paul announced a plan to establish an advisory council to the chief, “to advise and support the police chief in another effo...
Community column for Aug. 21
In the NewsBy George Morris, The Advocate Black Out Loud Conference held in BR The inaugural Black Out Loud Conference celebrated black visibility in the arts, media and activism on Aug. 10-12 in Baton Rouge. Local poet, activist and teaching arti...
OUR TURN: Urban Congress
In the NewsBy WAFB Staff| April 12, 2016 at 3:39 PM CDT – Updated July 1 at 2:50 PM BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – Let’s talk about something positive that is happening in our community this weekend. MetroMorphosis, a non-profit in Baton Rouge, is hosti...
