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Championing the keys to economic advancement
President Lenny Singletary, of Cornerstone Support Services Corp., sees his as a youthful organization with much history and big intentions for development in Central Brooklyn. A career banker, he is in a hurry to get things going at Support Services, the community development arm of Cornerstone Baptist Church in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Support Services was established eight years ago but has yet to really take off on its mission. Cornerstone Baptist's pastor, Laurence E. Aker III, persuaded Singletary to head the unit after five requests, assuring him that the unit's mission would be accomplished only if someone with his energy and drive were at the helm.
Singletary is fully invested in the corporation's mission to provide social service programs that center around education, health, housing, technology and "general uplifting of the community," even though his...