Our Strategy

The Moral Courage Foundation has adopted a two-fold strategy for fulfilling our mission.

1. Reward Good Kids

  • The Foundation provides annual scholarships to college-bound high school seniors who have consistently demonstrated Moral Courage in their lives as defined by the Foundation.
  • The Foundation provides Moral Courage Awards (certificates, cash awards and prizes) to elementary school students who make right choices.

    This strategy seeks to reward those young people who are already making good decisions based on biblical morals, while at the same time providing tangible motivation for other young people to do the same.

2. Counsel "At-Risk" Kids


  • The Foundation provides a Character Development Program to elementary and secondary school students who have been ordered into the program by the Truancy Court. Truancy is often an outward symptom of deeper issues related to poor decision-making skills or even domestic instability.
  • The Character Development Program is also taught to junior high and high school students who have been assigned to the school district's Alternative Education Program because of behavioral issues or insufficient grades. Some of the same issues that often result in truancy can also be found in the lives of these students.

    This strategy seeks to provide a glimmer of hope to young people who may not even realize there is a better way. Our goal is to someday be able to award a Moral Courage Scholarship to a student we have helped earlier in life through the Character Development Program.

 

"We must build communities that support the development of good moral character. Once we teach respect and manners to our children, make sure they understand the difference between right and wrong, and model courage for them, it is imperative for us to increase the reinforcement they get in order to develop good character. Reinforcement must come from entire communities that are committed to the moral training of the next generation."

[Igniting the Moral Courage of America, Dean Kilmer, p. 43]

 

 

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