MISSION

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To improve educational outcomes in adolescents by promoting reading, literacy and moral values as a means to close the achievement gap across traditional cultural and social barriers.

•  Review and acquisition of age-appropriate character-building reading materials that help mold positive thinking and behavior in young people;
• Sponsoring programs and services to strengthen positive character development among youth through volunteer mentors and neighborhood-based reading clubs;
• Working with local and state organizations to provide character-building reading 

• Children's Hospitals
• Inner-City Reading Programs
• Overseas Orphanages
• Adoption/Foster Care Programs

To work with young people to develop standears of the heart; teaching them to become caring, contributing, productive, and responsbiel members of society.  These attributes are vital to youth becoming successful in school, making responsible decisions, caring about others, contributing to society, developing social and personal skills (such as problem solving), processing various perspectives, setting and attaining goals, and developing a core set of common values.