Kevin Singleton

Background

About Kevin Singleton

Kevin Singleton is a Grammy Award winning songwriter, cross cultural musician, nonprofit youth development mentor and social entrepreneur. Some of Kevin’s songs have been sung by faith-based organizations globally. He has performed at conferences and assemblies for more than 3.5 million students and educators in 20 countries around the world, using components of what he calls “The Mailman Method”. He learned these basketball skills from his college coach, Bill Peterson, who created the workout method for Karl Malone, the 3rd leading scorer in NBA history. In 2009 Kevin founded Elevate New York, a New York City Department of Education accredited, in-school/after-school mentoring 501c3, located in the poorest congressional district in America. Through Elevate, he has raised and invested over $4 million into NYC Community School district 8. The conservative Social ROI is now over $100 million, because of their dropout prevention rates and the state or federal funds no longer needed to subsidize their graduates. Kevin recently joined the Elevate USA national team as a VP of Leadership and Development. He remains active with Elevate New York as a board member. He is a co-founder of Trellis, a nonprofit that supports Kevin’s personal mentoring efforts with musicians and inner-city youth. He also sits on two Advisory Councils: the TENx10 DE & I Council at Fuller Youth Institute and Telemachus.