Inspiring Generations, both Young and Old
Launched in 2020, The Jewkes Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides artistic and recreational opportunities to communities that are often overlooked, specifically socioeconomically disadvantaged youth and seniors.
5Specific Outreach Programs
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500+Hours of Community Service
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1,000+People benefitted
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Last Seven Days
The Jewkes Foundation is currently all in on Last Seven Days, addressing the current suicide and mental health epidemic among military Veterans.
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About
The Jewkes Foundation was created by Reggie, Rickey, and Michael J. Jewkes as a way for them to give back in their areas of passion and expertise.
Reggie has been coaching and training basketball players since 1997, and later became a certified personal trainer, training clients in a vast background of fitness and healthy living. She began shifting most of her efforts towards seniors, a group that often gets left behind during civic planning and funding. She's expanded her area of trade by incorporating senior brain fitness, Tai Chi, and basic ASL (American Sign Language) instruction to her portfolio. Through the Jewkes Foundation, she offers free-of-charge classes to seniors in the aforementioned fitness areas, in edition to many others. She also continues her youth basketball clinics, with increased emphasis to providing clinics for economically-disadvantaged youth.
Reggie's sons, Rickey and Michael, are accomplished young filmmakers whose early work has garnered attention from around the world. Learning and experiencing the difficulties of the film industry early on, they've developed programs that help aspiring filmmakers learn key aspects of the trade to jump-start their careers. They've also conducted, in harmony with the mission of the Jewkes Foundation, film classes and projects for seniors.
Reggie has been coaching and training basketball players since 1997, and later became a certified personal trainer, training clients in a vast background of fitness and healthy living. She began shifting most of her efforts towards seniors, a group that often gets left behind during civic planning and funding. She's expanded her area of trade by incorporating senior brain fitness, Tai Chi, and basic ASL (American Sign Language) instruction to her portfolio. Through the Jewkes Foundation, she offers free-of-charge classes to seniors in the aforementioned fitness areas, in edition to many others. She also continues her youth basketball clinics, with increased emphasis to providing clinics for economically-disadvantaged youth.
Reggie's sons, Rickey and Michael, are accomplished young filmmakers whose early work has garnered attention from around the world. Learning and experiencing the difficulties of the film industry early on, they've developed programs that help aspiring filmmakers learn key aspects of the trade to jump-start their careers. They've also conducted, in harmony with the mission of the Jewkes Foundation, film classes and projects for seniors.
"We want to make our community a better place to live."
