ONE More… ONE Less Mentoring Inc. was born from a deeply personal understanding of the challenges facing young Black boys growing up in underserved urban communities.
In 1993, Founder Elder Ron Beazer began working within Baltimore City Public Schools, where he witnessed firsthand the growing absence of positive male mentorship in the lives of many youth. Through years of working with students and families, he observed that the overwhelming majority of school interactions involved mothers or grandmothers serving as primary caregivers, while many young boys lacked consistent male guidance, structure, and emotional support.
Having personally benefited from strong male role models — including pastors, teachers, and family mentors — Elder Beazer recognized the life-changing impact mentorship could have on young people navigating violence, poverty, grief, instability, and systemic barriers. While raising his own two sons, his commitment to youth mentorship deepened when one of his sons experienced challenges at school. Encouraged by school leadership to become a Cub Scouts leader, he quickly realized that many urban youth needed a culturally relevant mentoring model specifically designed to address their lived experiences.
Through research, community engagement, and faith-driven leadership, the foundation for OMOL Mentoring was established. The early program utilized the “Young Lions” curriculum, focusing on the spiritual, social, emotional, and leadership development of young Black boys transitioning into manhood. The program operated through volunteer mentors, community donations, and grassroots support while remaining free and accessible to Baltimore City youth and families.
By 2010, OMOL Mentoring formally expanded into a broader community-based organization dedicated to mentorship, youth development, and community intervention. Built upon Bishop Ron Beazer’s vision of “ONE More Opportunity and ONE Less Barrier,” the organization focused on creating safe spaces, academic support, violence prevention, emotional wellness, and after-school engagement opportunities for underserved youth.
In 2019, leadership transitioned to Minister Brian Bordley, whose passion for environmental education, entrepreneurship, systems development, and experiential learning helped transform OMOL into a multi-dimensional ecosystem of support. While facing serious health challenges and dialysis treatments himself, Minister Bordley remained committed to ensuring that young people impacted by violence, hopelessness, and systemic inequities had access to opportunity, mentorship, healing, and purpose.
Under his leadership, OMOL Mentoring expanded beyond traditional mentoring into workforce development, environmental stewardship, behavioral health engagement, aquatic STEM education, violence prevention, and economic mobility initiatives. Programs such as OPWWEE: BmoreWet!, TCXA (The Collective Xperience Alliance) where four nonprofits collaborated to enrich and impact a group of youth with multiple programming from STEM, dining ettiquete/manners, and culinary group cooking all imparting life skills, and Operation WorkFORX© Development were developed to expose youth and returning citizens to hands-on learning, career pathways, environmental conservation, entrepreneurship, and trauma-informed support systems.
What began as one man mentoring youth within his neighborhood has evolved into a regional network of mentors, educators, behavioral health professionals, environmental advocates, workforce partners, clergy, and community organizations working together to strengthen families and transform communities.
Today, OMOL Mentoring is recognized for its culturally responsive, community-rooted, and innovative approach to mentorship, workforce development, mental health intervention, environmental education, and wraparound support services. Through collaboration, compassion, and lived experience, OMOL continues to create pathways toward healing, resilience, self-sufficiency, and long-term community impact — one life and one opportunity at a time.