About Us
27Reasons Charitable Foundation is designed to teach children and teenagers the growth mechanics of self-discipline and empowerment regardless of socio-economic status or learning impairment. Our organization mission has one goal: to build dreams one heart at a time.
Our twenty-seven principles help support Reason Kids™ and Reason Teenagers™ with the steps necessary to accomplish their desired goals. We provide growth opportunities for our future generation through programs, activities, and community ventures.
- DREAMS: “If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.” -Donald Trump
- VISION: “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.” -Woodrow Wilson
- GOALS: “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” -Booker T. Washington
- COURAGE: “All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.”-Walt Disney
- MOTIVATION: “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”-Jim Ryun
- CONFIDENCE: “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”-Rosalynn Smith Carter
- UNDERSTANDING: Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
- FAITH: “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”-Martin Luther King Jr.
- EDUCATION: “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” -Robert M. Hutchins
- FOCUS: “Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.”-Oprah Winfrey
- PATIENCE: “He that can have patience can have what he will.”-Benjamin Franklin
- TIME: “Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”-Leonardo Da Vinci
- DISCIPLINE: “By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.” -Grenville Kleiser
- DEDICATION: “Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.”-Dr. Thomas Dooley
- INSPIRATION: “Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.” -Eric A. Burns
- ACTION: “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
- EXCELLENCE: “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” -Pearl Buck
- LEADERSHIP: “Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.” -Stephen Covey
- RESPECT: “Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”-John Herschel
- EQUALITY: “I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.” -Rosa Parks
- TRUST: “The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.” -Henry Stimson
- LOVE: “Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.”-Robert C. Pollock
- HAPPINESS: “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.”-Marcus A. Antoninus
- LIFE: “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”-Thomas Carlyle
- GENEROSITY: “… true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.” -Simone de Beauvoir
- GROWTH: “Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.” -Author Unknown
- SUCCESS: “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”-Abraham Lincoln