The Encouragement Foundation exists to raise awareness about the benefits of encouraging others. The foundation provides tools and resources to create opportunities to encourage. The foundation also strives to challenge people of all ages to make encouraging others part of their daily lives.

History:

The Day of Encouragement finds its history in a group of high school students who attended the National Leadership Conference in Searcy, Ark. in June of 2007. The students were asked to identify the greatest problem invading their school systems and generation. Though the students acknowledged drinking, drugs and other harmful activities, they found that every problem their generation faced stemmed from a greater and more devastating issue: discouragement.

These students decided to set aside one day each year to be a day of encouragement, a day to ask those of all ages and backgrounds to unite in one cause: using encouragement to bring light to a discouraged world.

The Encouragement Foundation was then founded in September of 2007 when former president George W. Bush acknowledged September 12 as the National Day of Encouragement through Senate Resolution 672.

Vision:

The Encouragement Foundation has a vision of change, a vision of empowering people across our nation and world to support each other and make a difference in the lives of all.

Goals and Mission:

The Encouragement Foundation wishes to raise awareness of the benefits that come from encouraging those around us. We strive to challenge those of all ages and backgrounds to make encouragement something practiced daily and habitually.
 
As a foundation, we promote encouragement as a life philosophy, an attitude that calls for action.