Honoring Our Heroes Oct 19, 2023
Charcuterie Challenge Oct 19, 2023!
There will be a special flare to Honoring our Heroes this year with a wonderful mix of CHARCUTERIE tables from some of the best local cooks in the area. And, Don't forget the great silent auction items we have every year!
Honoring our Hero
Guess Who? - Change Maker
Honoring our Hero
Guess Who? - check back - Change Maker
Honoring our Hero
Guess Who? - Change Maker
after school tutoring/mentoring & healthy me Initiative
Celebrating 20+ years of changed lives and changed communities!
After-School Tutoring/Mentoring
Grades: K5 - 12th, August 2023 to May 9, 2024
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00-5:00PM
No cost / space is limited
Snack Provided
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
Summer 2023; Fall 2023, and Spring 2024 Schedule...
Back To School BASH, August 2, 6PM
After School Tutoring/Mentoring
In-School Mentoring - Aug 2023-May 2024
Youth Servant-Leadership Program - ongoing
Spring Break Youth Retreat - March 2024
Healthy Me Initiative - ongoing
Wisdom Challenge (City-wide, March 1-31, 2024)
Keeping Marriage Healthy - ongoing
Details: 6019397517
Trips: july 14-26, 2022. Getting ready for Uganda Aug 2024
Building on Mentoring Principles by having Fun!
Building on Mentoring Principles by having Fun!
Building on Mentoring Principles by having Fun!
The PEARSON Foundation is prayerfully planning to take a select group of students from our Youth Mentoring Program on a once in a lifetime experience to attend the World Athletics Championships, July 13-26, 2022. The event is being held for the first time ever in the USA, and will be hosted at Haywood Field in Eugene, Oregon. This event brings together World-class track and field athletes from over 200+ Countries.
The purpose of the trip is to build on many of the character and conduct principles taught from the Book of Proverbs throughout our mentoring program, and to expand the educational experiences of the students.
Will be a life impacting experience --for sure!
Building on Mentoring Principles by having Fun!
Building on Mentoring Principles by having Fun!
If the July 2022 trip is anything like the last trip (photo above) we took prior to COVID, it will be a BIG TIME!
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.