About the Foundation
Remember when you were on the playground as a kid and you went to kick the ball but somehow slipped up and missed completely? The disappointment? The shame? But once in awhile, on a rare lucky day, the kids you were playing with would yell, “Do-over!” and you’d get a chance – a second chance – to try again.

We created The “Do-Overs” Foundation because sometimes grown-ups need a “do-over” too. The purpose of our organization is to foster hope and help people transform their lives. The foundation offers a program, namely a series of steps which the subject helps to create, in order to assist him or her in experiencing a successful life transformation. These steps include:

• Gathering community volunteers to help enact and support a
  major change in the subject’s life
• Participating in life coaching
• Learning goal-setting skills
• Creating a life plan so the subject can continue to move forward
  

Pilot Project: "Let the Sun Shine In"
We are well underway on our foundation’s pilot project, called “Let the Sun Shine In”. We have assisted our first subject, Angela, a mother of three children who recently found the courage to end her marriage to her chronically depressed, emotionally abusive husband. She is a perfect candidate for our program because she had already shown her willingness to help herself and had enacted changes to make a better life for her kids before we even entered the picture. She has been seeing a registered counselor for over 24 months and has worked hard over the past year to get her financial situation in order and pay off debts.

She had begun trying to figure out who she was without her spouse’s negative interference, but found it too difficult because she was still surrounded and overwhelmed by the chaos of a house filled with extreme clutter and serious disrepair.

That’s when The “Do-Overs” Foundation came in – we raised funds, organized a wide variety of volunteers including friends, family and community members, and solicited discounts and donations from local businesses. Angela’s home has now received repair work, new carpets, new paint, furniture, yard clean-up and interior decoration. Angela and her children assisted with the labor, participated in counseling and goal-setting exercises and has agreed to nominate and help lead a future “Do-Over” event for another person. Now that the "home improvement" part of our pilot project is complete, Angela now has a clean, fresh place in which to begin to heal, grow and achieve her dreams!