Power of One Foundation

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CEO/Executive Director

Andre Roberson

CEO/Executive Director Experience

Andre Roberson has over 20 years of experience working in the nonprofit sector in Orange County, CA. Previous to becoming the Executive Director of Power of One Foundation, he was the Executive Director of a grassroots organization in Santa Ana, No One Left Behind. Andre Roberson is a music artist, actor, film/TV producer and humanitarian whose passion for life and heart for others propels everything he accomplishes. He is a unique combination of visionary and leader with the ability to both dream big and succeed bigger. He creates space for others to grow while guiding them by example and through service. Since 2005 Andre has ran a small No One Left Behind which he started with his mother and grandmother that provided food assistance in Santa Ana, CA. In 2019 Andre co-founded Power of One Foundation (POOF) with the vision of creating replicable models to more efficiently care for our at-risk communities. In 2020, Andre became an even more prominent leader in his community as he stepped up to provide food assistance to over 2 million individuals in California through POOF. Because of the foundation’s efforts it was chosen as 2020 California Nonprofit of the Year by Senator Tom Umberg, inducted into the Congressional Record, the Mayor Award from the city of Costa Mesa, and awarded by partners such as IKEA and the City of Santa Ana. In the film and music industries, Andre has made waves for years. He first entered the entertainment industry as a recording artist on his own independent label, Beat Lounge Record. An award-winning R&B/Hip-Hop artist, Andre has performed at iconic venues all over the country including Whiskey-A-Go-Go, The Troubadour, the Key Club, and the House of Blues in various locales; he has headlined events in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay, Caesar’s Palace, Planet Hollywood, Luxor, and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. As an actor, Andre has been featured in movies (Notorious, Dangerous Minds, Powerplay, and Sunset Strip) and in recurring and guest starring roles in TV shows such as Days of Our Lives, The District, and Angel. For the past seven years, Andre has been a key development executive specializing event production, entertainment consulting, and film development, as well as record production, music consulting, and scoring for the film and television industry alongside running Power of One Foundation serving the underprivileged and fighting hunger in and around Southern California.

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