La Granja Restaurants Partner with Project Leadership to Help Area Youth

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - Sept. 25, 2013 - PRLog -- The Fall Project Leadership for 2013, organized and led by attorney and former Coral Springs Mayor Scott Brook, is approaching fast. This upcoming occasion marks Project Leadership’s fifteenth event, which reaches out to local youth from ages as young as fifth graders to seniors in high school. Project Leadership’s primary sponsor is the Premier Alliance Network, a business referral and community service organization founded by Mr. Brook back in 2003.  Other event sponsors through the years include La Granja Restaurants, who has underwritten various Project Leadership meetings, donating food, etc. In addition to enjoying delicious homemade Peruvian fare from La Granja, the young men and women taking part in Project Leadership learn a variety of life skills, including finances, budgeting, applying for college and more.

Project Leadership continues to put on one event during the spring, summer and fall of each year and has had the pleasure of being sponsored by La Granja and Claudia Bartra for its past three meetings. Although the ages vary of the children and teens at each event, the leaders believe it is important to keep all students together in one group, allowing the younger children to connect to an older peer and having someone to look up to. Held at Sartory Hall in Coral Springs, each two-hour event contains various group exercises and presentations from the students. Project Leadership also brings in outside speakers to encourage and teach crucial life skills to the students, with past speakers being Dara Torres, Olympic swimmer and Dan Daley, Coral Springs City Commissioner.

“Project Leadership and Scott Brook do such an amazing job helping young people learn vital life skills and encourage them to continue their education and make a difference in their community,” stated Claudia Bartra of La Granja Restaurants. “It is an honor to team up with this event again and take part in helping the youth in our community.”

About La Granja Restaurants

La Granja opened their first restaurant in Aruba in 1993, introducing the people of the island to delicious Peruvian-style cuisine. After much success, La Granja was introduced to the people of South Florida, who have welcomed their homemade, healthy Peruvian fare with open arms. La Granja has recently celebrated the opening of their 35^th location and has been awarded “Best Peruvian Restaurant of the Year” and “Best Family Style Peruvian Restaurant” by The Restaurant Review Magazine. To learn more about locations, menu items and franchise opportunities, visit www.lagranjarestaurants.com

About Scott Brook

Attorney Scott Brook was elected Mayor of Coral Springs and served from 2006 until November 2010. He is the Founder and Former Chair of the City’s Customer-Involved Government Committee, Parent Education Committee and a member of the Financial Advisory Committee. Brook is also the Co-Founder of The Innovation Table, a social network that allows users to share information and co-create innovative ideas to better the world around them. He took this idea one step further into his community and founded the local Innovative Education Roundtable, which supports youth in leading fulfilling, healthy and giving lives.

In 2003, Brook founded Premier Networking Alliance, a business referral and community service that is dedicated to help market local businesses and serve communities raising money for various charitable organizations. As the organizer for Project Leadership, Brook is proud to help children of all ages in the community learn important life skills and connect them with older peers who help encourage and inspire. To learn more about collaborating with Project Leadership, visit Scott Brook at www.scottjbrookpa.com or request an application through Scottbrook@scottjbrookpa.com