JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT, INC.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Choose Love Enrichment Program
The Choose Love Enrichment ProgramTM is a no cost Pre-K through 12th grade social and emotional learning program that teaches educators and their students how to choose love in any circumstance and helps them become connected, resilient, and empowered individuals. These skills, tools and attitudes have been proven through decades of scientific research to be the best way to ensure a healthy, meaningful and purpose-filled life.
Where we work
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Photos
Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of students with good social and leadership skills and self-discipline
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Choose Love Enrichment Program
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Choose Love Enrichment Program has been downloaded more than 40,000 times and has impacted more than 1.7 million students.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The world has never needed love and compassion more than we do now. Our objective is to ensure that every child has the opportunity to benefit from an SEL curriculum. Our goal is to help make sure that all of our children are fully equipped and empowered to choose love. We aim to provide every young person with the tools necessary to change angry thoughts into caring thoughts. Ultimately, we believe this is the answer to ensuring that what happened at Newtown does not happen again.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The Foundation will be a central place for educators and individuals to access videos, individual courses and programs, proprietary and other compiled from existing programs. Our web-based method of dissemination will be offered for free, is easily accessible, and readily available for every classroom and home. Children and adults will be able to learn from tools that promote a peaceful, loving and happy way of life and then follow through with civic action oriented activities and programs that encourage them to use the concepts they've learned in real life situations and gain confidence in outcomes that positively impact others.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Over the course of two years, the Foundation worked with educators and youth development experts from across the country to develop our programmatic materials.
Additionally, the JLCLF has established ongoing partnerships and collaborations with some of the most effective proponents of SEL in the US with decades of research and experience, including:
Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Charter for Compassion
Committee for Children
HeartMath
MindUp, The Hawn Foundation
Mission Be, a 9/11 Initiative
Yale's Ruler Program
We are proud to receive support from the Novo Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We've developed a comprehensive SEL-based program, the Choose Love Enrichment Program. The Foundation has partnered and aligned with educators, funders, partners, schools, community groups, and other organizations to launch the program in 2016.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT, INC.
Board of directorsas of 07/16/2020
Lt. General Martin Steele
Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation
Term: 2017 -
Christopher Kukk
Western Connecticut State University
Nicolas Ortner
The Tapping Solution
Dan Anderson
Merill Lynch
Martin L Steele
USMC
Vince Benevento
Causeway Collaborative
Jane Hunt Meade
NorthWest Arkansas Community Foundation
Scarlett Lewis
Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation
Dawn W. Brolin
Powerful Accounting
Robert Haines
MasterCard Advisors
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.