After leaving Iona College Jim became Program Coordinator at Nepperhan Community Center in Yonkers where he now serves as their Executive Director, responsible for all agency staff and programs. He hosts their Voices of the Community Cable Television show, which is aired on Wednesday evenings at 10:30pm on channel 18. Jim is also the founder of the Yonkers Midnight Basketball, and the Say Yes To Life Basketball Programs. Since assuming the leadership of Nepperhan Community Center, he has been responsible for creating numerous new programs including the 125 member Nepperhan Youth Corp, a violence prevention program which features one of the Metropolitan areas top drum and bugle corps. The addition of an outdoor basketball court which is now home of the Yonkers Midnight Basketball Program, a major food drive to feed the hungry, a Black Tie Gala, a walk-a-thon, the creation of the states first Parent Teacher Student Association sponsored by a community based organization, five Youth Tackle Football teams, the largest provider of afterschool programs in Yonkers and the surrounding area., and is currently working on a project to expand the Nepperhan Community Center to a new site location. Dr. Bostic has not only expanded the agency to have offices throughout the Lower Hudson Valley, but currently they are also operating programs in Tanzania, Cote D’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Ghana on the continent of Africa, and in Haiti

Dr. Bostic is the author of the recently published book “Daily Words of Encouragement To Live By.” He was also member of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Yonkers for over 50 years, while there he served as the Chairmen of the Board of Trustees, former President of their Men’s Ministry, former Teacher in their Bible Institute, and Director of their Youth Church Ministry. Currently he is member of the Union Baptist Church in New Rochelle, where he serves as Youth Pastor, and an instructor in their Kingdom Empowerment Classes. Also as part of Jim’s ministry he has teaches Bible study at Valhalla Correctional Facility in Westchester County, he ministers to inmates throughout the New York State Correctional Institutions, and his agency serves as an After-Care Facility for inmates released from prison. Jim is also the Business Manager of the Gospel Recording group The Sound of Hope. Jim was inducted in the Yonkers Sports Hall of Fame in 1987, the Westchester County Sports Hall of Fame in 1994, the Rucker Professional Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007 and the New Rochelle Sports Hall of Fame in 2016. He has been the recipient of numerous awards which include The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, Outstanding Young Men of America, Outstanding Teachers of America, Commendations from The City of Yonkers, County of Westchester, State of New York, State of New Mexico, the United States Congress, The Ossie Davis Award, The Champion of Human Rights Award, The African American Advisory Board of Westchester’s Trail Blazer Award, numerous Community Service Awards, and many more. He also serves as a member of the Mayor’s Education Advisory Committee, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Sharing Community, Co-Chairman of the Faith Based Health Initiative, The Drug Free Advisory Committee, the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Committee, the Gang Task Force, former member of the African American Advisory Board of Westchester County, former Chairman of the Workforce Investment Board Youth Council, and currently Founder/Chairman of the City of Yonkers Violence/Gang Prevention Coalition, the Board of Directors of St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Mayor Mike Spano’s Advisory Committee, the Chairman of the Hudson Valley After School Network, Chairman of the Lower Hudson Valley My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a former board member of the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce and many more. He is happily married to Pearlie Goodman, and they are proud parents of two children Donica, and Jim Jr (deceased), both young adults and three grandchildren. Jim’s entire adult life has been dedicated to the service of youth, their families, people who are in need, and the cause of racial equality.