CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF CHANGED lIVES AND cHANGED cULTURE!
Join us in Celebrating the PEARSON Foundation's 25th Anniversary by financially supporting the $400K Fund for the Future Campaign!
Scenes from the 2025 summer learning enrichment institute day kamp!
celebrating our 2025 SCHOLArship Recipients' success!
Our Mission
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!
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 31st!
Each year, community partner organization host a Harvest Festival filled with games, prizes, food and special presentations.
Mark your calendar for September 24, 2026
On October 30, 2025, there was a special flare to Honoring our Heroes with powerful testimonies about our remarkable honorees! Can it get even better, as we plan for our year-long 25th anniversary celebration? Come and See! MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026!
Who We Are
About PEARSON
- Founded in 2000 by a group of visionary, community-minded changemakers, the PEARSON Foundation exists to transform lives by offering services and activities that add lasting value. At the heart of our mission is the Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle, a relational approach to outreach, discipleship, and holistic support.
- We focus on families—parents and children—especially in the Pearson, Carver, Oak Grove, and Greenfield communities of Pearl, Mississippi. These neighborhoods, marked by high rates of poverty, face persistent challenges including drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school dropout, and violence. While not exclusive to these areas, our intentional presence reflects a deep commitment to bringing hope, healing, and transformation where it’s needed most.
Board or Directors:
Jarvis Ward, Chairman
Ezra Snell, V. Chairman
Brayden Cook - Treasurer
ShaRhonda Gipson, Secretary
Titus Dillard
Melony Braxton Horton
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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.
come experience impact!
Two Decades of Christ-Centered Community Transformation