About AGARG

"A Journey Ahead Representing God"

The AJA Research Group, the parent organization of nineteen very distinct websites including NCFBS and Scamzo the consumer advocacy site, was founded in 1991. In 1994 the organization sought to address the growth of widespread sale and use of illegal street drugs among this nation‘s youth population.

A four year study was conducted using undercover operatives and with the compilation of the current literature, The Good Book About Bad Drugs, became the first major project completed by the organization. The book is a parenting guide to help parents to mitigate the potential that their children will become involved with the sale and/or use of illicit drugs.

Since then, the organization has addressed a variety of social, economic and educational issues in the United States. In August 2004, Gwen Anderson, President of the organization, became immensely concerned with the rising high school dropout rate across the country. As a result the organization embarked on yet another major research project and determined that the dropout problem was the product of many undesirable circumstances.

Our research indicates that as many as 40 percent of the nation's high school graduates say they were not adequately prepared for the demands of employment or post secondary education; employers and college professors agreed. But more than 80 percent of recent graduates said that if they could do high school over, they would work harder.

Taking these views into account, along with our need to maintain an economic edge in a global marketplace and our commitment to equal opportunities for all students, a clear message is being sent: The imperative for action is urgent. What's more troubling is that the dropout rate among U.S. high school students is soaring. Currently an alarming 30 percent of students are not graduating with a high school diploma.

The dropout rate is much worse for minority students. Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and Christopher Swanson of the Urban Institute found that about 50 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American students fail to earn high school diplomas.

Our mission then became to help to reverse these trends by providing students, educators and schools with cost free, technologically advanced, common sense solutions to an ever expanding national educational deficit.

In February of 2007, Judge Myron V. Anderson, AJARG's founder and CEO, through his criminal court experience, recognized a serious need to provide employment opportunities for nonviolent ex-offenders that offer "livable wages."

Resultantly, AJARG and AJARGCard set out to develop employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for this large underemployed group.

AJARGCard seeks to be the world's preeminent technology driven leader in multiple business marketing. Our purpose is to provide merchants and service providers with the most cost effective method of attracting and retaining customers.

It is our goal to train and hire nonviolent ex-offenders so that they too will have opportunities to derive a financial benefit from twenty-first century Internet technology.

Our Goal Is To Hire And Train Over 10,000 Ex-Offenders In An Effort To Allow Them To Attain Livable Wages And Life Long Employment By Having Them To Participate In The Continued Expansion Of Internet Technology

As the parent company of 19 technologically advanced websites that were all built by ex-offenders, we firmly believe that it is imperative to offer employment and entrepreneurial opportunities to deserving members of this group on a national level. We further believe that much of the violence which seems to be a daily occurrence in many urban communities, is one result of the hopelessness related to the inability of many young men and women to find jobs that provide livable wages. Systemic yet systematic exclusion of ex-offenders from securing decent jobs in the U.S. is very often found at the core of that hopelessness.