2024 Scholarship Recipients
Our Mission
The PEARSON Foundation's Founders and Honorees Scholarship is given to graduating high school seniors who have been meaningfully involved as either a mentee, mentor, tutee, tutor, or community service volunteer: servant leader in training SLIT worker. Join us in celebrating these students!
Scenes from Summer learning instituteS 2023-2024
spring EVENT 2024
In-School Mentoring!
Meeting weekly with boys in-school for mentoring!
In-School Mentoring!
Meeting weekly with boys in-school for mentoring!
Community Harvest Festival Oct 31, 2024!
Each year, community partner organization host a Harvest Festival filled with games, prizes, food and special presentations.
Mark your calendar for September 25, 2025
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 2025!
Highlights from Honoring Our Heroes!
Many gathered to celebrated the four "Heroes" who were honored our annual reception and silent auction.
Honoring our 2023 Hero
Dr. Christopher Bullin
Honoring our 2023 Heroes
Ann Bingham and (Maurice Bingham-deceased)
Honoring our 2023 Hero
Tena McNair
Celebrating 20+ years of changed lives and changed communities!
After-School Tutoring/Mentoring
Grades: K5 - 8th, August 2024 to May 9, 2025
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00-5:00PM
No cost / space is limited
Snack Provided
Summer Learning & Enrichment Institute May 28-July 11, 2025
Must Register in advance! Space is limited!
LOCATIONS:
1. Payton Garden Apartments, 825 Boston Road – PEARL
2. PEARSON Foundation Office, 206 Old Whitfield Rd-PEARL
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, March 1-31, 2025)
Keeping Marriage Healthy - ongoing
Details: 6019397517
Who We Are
About PEARSON
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)
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MISSION In Action
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".
A Better Vision
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.
