Freedoms Foundation At Valley Forge

Programs: During the reporting period, over 2,000 students participated in educational programs which promote american rights and responsibilities focused on our five principles of responsible citizenship - accountability, respect, generosity, participation, and productivity. Student programs emphasize american history, the declaration of independence, us constitution, and bill of rights, the medal of honor, character development, leadership training, and service learning and are meant to inspire young citizens to make a contribution to understand and defend our freedoms. Freedoms foundation also provides content-rich, graduate-level, professional development for k-12 teachers focused on topics like the us constitution, american history, the medal of honor, and character development. In 2017, 360 teachers participated in seminars and history workshops, a 47% increase over the previous year. Since our participating teachers average 100 students annually, these programs impacted 36,000 students this past school year. Since its inception in 1965, we have impacted the education of over 200,000 elementary, middle, and high school directly and over 5,000,000 students through our teachers.

founded in 1949, freedoms foundation's primary mission was to recognize civic virtue and responsible citizenship. This mission continues today. Over 57,000 people have been recognized with the george washington honor medal for the daily actions that embody the freedoms foundation bill of responsibilities. The distinguished citizen award recognizes individuals who life of civic virtue and service stand as a exemplar for all. Finally, the leavey awards for excellence in private enterprise education recognize teachers for unique and innovative instruction about entrepreneurship and the free enterprise system.