The PEARSON Foundation’s Annual HONORING OUR HEROES Reception & Silent Auction
Thursday, September 25
6:00 PM
City of Pearl Community Center
Join us for an evening of inspiration, gratitude, and purpose as we come together to celebrate the heroes among us—those who uplift our community through their service, dedication, and sacrifice.
This signature event serves as our ONLY major fundraiser of the year, helping us continue our mission of positively transforming the lives of children and families. We aim to secure the support of five major event sponsors and table sponsors, along with featuring an exclusive advertising booklet to enhance visibility and engagement. Additionally, individual tickets will be available, ensuring broader attendance and active participation in this meaningful event.
Hear powerful testimonies from students, parents, supporters, and community partners whose lives have been touched by the PEARSON Foundation.
Be part of something extraordinary. Secure your spot today!
Your support fuels our vision. Let’s stand together in honor of our heroes. 🇺🇸
For sponsorships, tickets, or more information, contact PEARSON Foundation, 601.939.7517 or 601.942.2990 or email: pearson39208@gmail.com.
Through your participation, we will create a meaningful and enduring impact that strengthens our community and uplifts those we serve.
The PEARSON Foundation's Founders and Honorees Scholarship is awarded to graduating high school seniors who have demonstrated meaningful involvement in mentorship, tutoring, community service, or servant leadership as Servant Leaders in Training (SLIT) workers. Their dedication and service reflect a commitment to personal growth and positive impact.
Join us in celebrating these outstanding students!
Let us know your thoughts after watching!
The PEARSON Foundation's Founders and Honorees Scholarship is awarded to graduating high school seniors who have demonstrated meaningful involvement in mentorship, tutoring, community service, or servant leadership as Servant Leaders in Training (SLIT) workers. Their dedication and service reflect a commitment to personal growth and positive impact.
Join us in celebrating these outstanding students!
After-School Tutoring/Mentoring
Grades: K5 - 8th, August 2025 to April 2026
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00-5:00PM
No cost / space is limited
Snack Provided
Summer Learning & Enrichment Institute May 28-July 2, 2025
Must Register in advance! Space is limited!
LOCATIONS:
1. PEARL LOWER ELEM SCHOOL - PEARL CITY PARK, PEARL PARKS & RECREATION
Spring, Summer & Fall 2025-2026 Schedule...
Back To School BASH, Wednesday, July 30, 6PM
After School Tutoring/Mentoring
In-School Mentoring - Aug 2025-May 2026
Youth Servant-Leadership Program - ongoing
Spring Break Youth Retreat - March 2026
Healthy Me Initiative - ongoing
Wisdom Challenge (City-wide, October 1-31, 2025 & March 1-31, 2026)
Keeping Marriage Healthy - ongoing
Details: 6019397517
Meeting weekly with boys in-school for mentoring!
Meeting weekly with boys in-school for mentoring!
Each year, community partner organization host a Harvest Festival filled with games, prizes, food and special presentations.
Last time there was a special flare to Honoring our Heroes with a wonderful mix of CHARCUTERIE tables from some of the best local cooks in the area. Once again, the silent auction was fantastic! MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER 25, 2025!
It is vital that our students in the Greater Jackson Metro/Central Mississippi area are prepared and equipped to read with comprehension in order to achieve life-skill potential and success. Better educated, better equipped and better skilled students simply means better families, better schools, better workers and workplaces, better public servants, and a better and more culturally progressive Central Mississippi.
Designed to help students in grades K-5 to sixth grade who are marginal or below standard reading and reading comprehension to improve 1/2 or more grade levels in reading and reading comprehension (per student) through a designed program Monday-Thursday (four days weekly), 2 hours daily during June-July, and August-April. The success of the Reading Institutes will contribute towards the strong and positive potential of each student succeeding in life and adding value back into our local, national and global communities.
PEARSON Foundation operates what many in the education field considers a State of Mississippi Best Practice Model Mentoring-Leadership Program currently in three schools and one school district. Through a carefully constructed multi-year collective community impact collaboration with parents, educators and government, students are lovingly and constructively nurtured through in-school and community mentoring. �
Focused on the long term while also addressing the immediate!
The PEARSON Foundation, Inc.—People Employing Available Resources to Strengthen Our Neighborhoods— (non profit organizations) was founded in 2000 by a group of community-minded change makers with a mission to provide services and activities that add value to people’s lives so that those lives are transformed. We seek to do this through what we call a Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle approach or process. Our target audience is families: parents and children. The Foundation very intentionally has targeted (but not exclusively) Jackson-Pearl, Mississippi because of their high percentage of socio-economically disadvantaged households. Some families in these communities are plagued with problems of pervasive drugs, teen pregnancies, school dropouts, violence and a host of other companion ills.
Board or Directors:
Jarvis Ward, Chairman
Brena Husband - Treasurer
Trey Ross, Secretary
Tina L. Carroll-McAllister
Jenell Chavis
Kaitlyn Ward
Thornton (TC) Castleberry
Maurice Henderson, Sr.
(non profit organisation - Not For Profit - Nonprofit Organizations)
The PEARSON Foundation is currently operating three sites in Pearl, Mississippi. Our in-school mentoring currently serves 40 boys in Pearl High, Jr High and Upper Elementary Schools. We hope to secure female staffing so that we can offer in-school mentoring for girls. Our Summer Reading Program operates three sites. We seek to prepare a generation of youth for advanced education and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) through reading enrichment and mentoring. After-school researchers and providers have recognized that hands-on, inquiry-driven science, technology, engineering and math programs are in line with our after-school's overall approach to education. Today's jobs require proficiency in STEM. There is great concern that without access to adequate educational experiences, segments of the population will be unable to participate effectively in the modern workplace. We are establishing partnerships and relationships as we integrate STEM. We believe PEARSON’s outreach to an underserved populace is a major positive to conduct, character, culture and career change in our communities. The fact that we integrate in-school and community-based mentoring and multi-agency collaboration set our programming apart as a "Best Practice Model".
It is vital that our students in the Central Mississippi area are prepared and equipped to read with comprehension in order to achieve life-skill potential and success. Better educated, better equipped and better skilled students simply means better families, better schools, better workers and workplaces, better public servants, and a better and more culturally progressive Mississippi.
Check out this great video
One of the students in our after school tutoring/mentoring program share briefly.
Check out this video of Pearl High School students helping younger students!
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