Mission Statement THE MISSION OF THE FREEDOM AND VIRTUE INSTITUTE IS TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, SELF-RELIANCE, AND HUMAN DIGNITY. The Freedom & Virtue Institute believes in fostering attitudes and leading initiatives that build off the principle of creating self-reliance among at-risk underprivileged children and individuals enduring hardship that wish to better their situations and live a dignified, self-sustainable life. Presently, the Freedom & Virtue Institute conducts two unique programs: The Self-Reliance Clubs and the Effective Compassion Training.
Promoting self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship, the work ethic, financial literacy education, and banking education allows children at risk and lower income families to find a way out of dependency on government assistance and to create a better economic future. The Freedom and Virtue Institute partners with Title 1 schools, the business community, the faith and non-profit sector, and all men and women of good faith to strive together for a better community where:
- People in need are supported and respected as having the capacity to become active participants in the building of better lives for themselves and their community
- The virtues of civic engagement, compassion, and generosity are aligned with the work ethic and entrepreneurship as the best instruments for a better economic future.
- The skills and knowledge of how to engage in a market economy are communicated in simple and practical ways to place children at risk and low-income families as protagonists of their own development instead of remaining merely as passive recipients of magnanimity.
- Government assistance and the welfare state do not take center stage in the process of building better lives but remain as secondary and temporary resources for authentic crisis situations of need.
- The process of wealth creation and economic activity is supported through effective but simple education on finances, banking, and the workings of the free market economy