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Stephanie Love Is a woman whose last name speaks Volumes, about her ability to spring into action. When their organization “Prepared The Gateway” Adopted a single student at Walbridge Elementary, Stephanie went Shopping passionately for this beautiful adolescent 11 year old girl. But It turned out that the girl had seven more siblings, and was In a single parent home. Immediately Stephanie and her husband George decided to Adopt the whole family of Nine. They started by buying brand new clothing, delivering food and furnishings their home with everything they needed. They also offered Mentorship to the whole family, while meeting them where they are at. We believe in giving back towards building better communities. This takes being Instrumental In the lives of the less fortunate, with the outpouring of love compassion and adhesiveness, to Insure healthy relationships, and to seal the fabric of the family Unit.

Prepared The Gateway Of The Northwest: Ceremony was held at St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education building located at 801 North 11th Street. June 1, 2023 @ 6:00pm. Three High schools Nominated students for the Dorothy Mae Walker-Love Scholarship Awards. Vashon High, Soldan International Studies and Clyde C. Miller High were the Chosen Schools this year. Ten Scholars were selected to receive the Scholarships by Board Members for their amazing essays.

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These are our first four Scholars at Vashon high school In 2017!

Here are two out four of our 2018 scholars, who appeared with George Love on the Steve Harvey Segment, receive funding.

Here below we have Eleven Urban St Louis public schools, In which we selected thirty five students for the Academic Improvement Scholarships. In 2019

Because of the attack of Covid19 across the world 🌎, We went Virtual for our 2020 Dorothy Mae Love Scholarships.

We Had a Spectacular event with our Dorothy Mae Love Scholarship Awards In 2021 despite facing the odds of uncertainty and despair, we were still able to weather the storm, supporting our scholars with our Virtual Ceremony.

This Is Our Dorothy Mae Love Red Carpet Awards June 10, 2022. Our Keynote speaker was Levi Stockard III, who received a Scholarship from Mr. George Love In 2017. He returned four years later with his Masters from Virginia Commonwealth University, to Give back to the community a 2,500 dollar Check as he Impacted the Scholars and dignitaries who looked on. His speech will be remembered by all who received Scholarships that day.

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In July 2019, George Love used Prepared’s Operation Holy Smoke program to feed community members along Bartmer Ave in St. Louis. The goal? To bring neighbors together in peace and friendship to offset the trauma and negativity of gun violence that plagues the area.

In addition to our High-Five Scholarship Fund, Custodian George Love is still very active with one of his earliest community programs: Operation Holy Smoke . In May 2019, Operation Holy Smoke fed the Vashon High graduating class of 2019 at their annual picnic in Forest Park, St. Louis. The event was a blast!

On April 16th, 2019, Prepared: The Gateway of the Northwest awarded 34 $500 scholarships to 34 high school students throughout the St. Louis Public School District. This is the third time the Vashon High custodian and Prepared founder, George Love, and his wife, Stephanie, have awarded privately funded scholarships to SLPS students in the urban community.