Job Well Done! Bonita Springs Charter School has 20 graduates from this year's Self Reliance Club. They range from 3rd to 8th graders. Please join us on Tuesday, May 22nd at 10 am at Achieva Credit Union in Corkscrew Village located at 21301 S. Tamiami Trail, #360 in Estero. We will tour the bank and help the students celebrate opening their own accounts and depositing the monies they have earned this year.
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May 2017
You are Invited! The Heights Foundation's Self Reliance Club will be bring 6 students who have completed the course this year to BB&T Bank on Monday, May 22 at 3 pm. The bank is located at 12971 McGregor Blvd in Fort Myers. The students will tour the bank and open accounts to deposit the money they have earned this year.
Read MoreJune 2017
Founder, Ismael Hernandez will deliver two topics at the conference.
Theories of Race
Hope for the Inner Cities
July 2017
Founder and executive director, Ismael Hernandez will be speaking at the Hope for Miami luncheon on August 16th. About Hope for Miami - Our goal is to help children, youth and families flourish and to support groups who serve them.
Read MoreAugust 2017
Ismael Hernandez will lead an Effective Compassion Training with the staff at Grace Place for Children located in Naples on August 15, 2017. Please feel free to contact us should your organization would like to be involved or have the training offered to your leaders, staff and volunteers.
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The Freedom & Virtue Institute is helping to shape the youth in our communities. We have less than 100 days to raise $25,000 for the Self Reliance Clubs. The Self-Reliance Clubs exist to educate the next generation to understand that they are the champions of their own lives. Through their own initiative, ingenuity, and hard work, they will realize that they have the power to determine the direction of their future. Check out our campaign, donate and share with you friends.
Read MoreSeptember 2017
A group of churches are coming together to receive the full day Effective Compassion Training in Austin, TX. Ismael Hernandez will personally be leading the training and offering new ways for these community leaders to effectively help the improvised and poor in their communities. To learn how your church or organization can receive training click HERE.
Read MoreNovember 2017
Hope for the Inner City gives a new perspective on how to manage Intelligent giving and intelligent withholding while empowering the poor.
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Ismael Hernandez is the executive director for the Freedom & Virtue Institute. The Freedom & Virtue Institute believes in fostering attitudes and leading initiatives that build off the principle of creating self-reliance among underprivileged children and individuals enduring hardship that wish to better their situations and live a dignified, self-sustainable life.
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"In short, although very few anthropologists still stick to the biological roots of race, race does not seem to be a biological reality reflecting history, but an artificial construct based on superficial similarities and offering no objective, discrete boundaries." ~ Ismael Hernandez
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