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Project Impact South Bend Staff
Pastor Hardie Blake Pastor Hardie Blake works earnestly helping transform lives economically
and spiritually as he empowers a paradigm shift to self-determination. He has years of leadership experience as Pastor
of Ardmore Church of Christ, President of Bethel Business Machines, Director of Men of Scars Outreach, Chairman of Board for
Project Impact and former Commissioner for the South Bend Redevelopment Commission. Pastor Blake is an elected Board
member for the following organizations: The Crossing Education Center, Project Future and Ivy Tech State College.
Perl Blake Perl Blake has training in Business
Administration from Michiana College of Business and Indiana University-SB. Perl has worked in business for over 20
years for IBM, Associates, Auto Owners and as Operations Manager for Bethel Business Machines, Inc. In addition to working
in the Business sector, Perl is the founder and of the highly acclaimed Daughters of Destiny, a program for young ladies, ages 9 through high school. The program’s goal and mission is to empower
young ladies, providing tools to develop good strong character which will assist in making better choices, thus increasing
high school graduation levels.
James Summers James Summers designs business solutions
that improve profitability through diversity and inclusion. He has over 30 years of business leadership experience launching
new and innovative products and services for fortune 500 companies and leading and directing profitable multi-million dollar
business operations. For Project Impact South Bend he serves as Executive Vice-President. For the Chicago Urban
League he developed and led Diversity & Inclusion Programming. For the consulting firm the Kaleidoscope Group, he
directed marketing activities and served as President of their multicultural marketing subsidiary. For the Whirlpool
Corporation, James was director of Global E-Business and Co-Chair of the African American Network Community Committee.
Steve Kennedy Steve Kennedy has 40 years of hands on experience ranging from general labor jobs to management experience.
He realizes true success comes from learning and following God’s instruction for life. Steve willingly shares
his occupational and life skills training experiences which include committing your life and your work to God, reliability,
solid work habits, teamwork, research and continuing education, putting pride aside and submitting to on-the-job monitoring
and accountability.
Shane Peters
Shane Peters is an ordained minister and certified
youth counselor. His counseling experience includes the detoxification program for Life Treatment Center
and the Juvenile re-entry program for the Department of Corrections. He is the Youth Pastor for Ardmore
LaSalle Church of Christ and is a graduate of the Memorial Hospital’s Leadership Development Program.
Ray Turner Ray Turner
has dedicated his life to promoting and building capable and responsible people. Specifically, he has
designed “Voyages”, an early intervention program for at risk African American males, grades 2 through 5.
This program promotes the value education towards success while buidlind social and living skill competence. Mr. Turner
has 30 plus years as a social worker as well as 17 years providing clinical services. Mr. Turner has served on may community
boards. Further, he has earned a Bachelors Degree from the University of Notre Dame, a Masters Degree in Elementary
Education from Indiana University of South Bend, and a Masters Degree in Social Work from Western Michigan University.
Mr. Turner is also a licensed Clinical Social Worker in the states of Indiana and Michigan.
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