Fulani co-founded the All Stars Project, a performance-based youth development organization serving low-income youth in New York City.
In 1981, Lenora Fulani co-founded the All Stars Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the developmental growth of low-income young people through performance, theater, and community-based programming rather than traditional deficit-based social services.
The organization was rooted in Fulani's academic and clinical background in developmental psychology, drawing on social therapeutic principles that emphasized creativity, performance, and collective growth as tools for personal and community transformation. Rather than treating poverty and underachievement as pathologies to be clinically corrected, the All Stars Project approach positioned youth as performers and creators of their own development.
Over subsequent decades, the All Stars Project grew into one of the most recognized youth development organizations in the United States, operating programs in multiple cities and partnering with schools, law enforcement, and philanthropic institutions. It became particularly noted for programs that brought together inner-city youth and police officers to build mutual understanding.
The exact founding date within 1981 is not documented in available sources, but the organization's establishment that year represented a pioneering model in applying performance and developmental psychology to youth empowerment, and it remains Fulani's most enduring institutional legacy outside of electoral politics.