The Full Story
About
Lead By Example Foundation Inc.** is dedicated to fostering positive change and empowering individuals, particularly the youth, to lead fulfilling and productive lives. Our comprehensive programs are designed to harness the transformative power of sports, the guidance of mentorship, and the impact of charitable activities. Through these initiatives, we aim to build stronger, healthier communities and inspire the next generation to make informed, life-enhancing choices.
Mission
Founded in 2017, Our mission “To inspire the community, with an emphasis on the youth, to
make smart, healthy, and life-changing decisions through sport, mentorship, and charity.”
History
Lead By Example Foundation started based off a conversation that happened between
family members (William Craig, Antonio Beard, D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera ). We praised my
brother D'Vauntes for how he handled himself during his college basketball career at
Georgetown University through the ups and downs. He always did things the right way with his
work ethic and positive energy surrounding the game of basketball. With the inspiration from
D’Vauntes and my surroundings ; my love for the community and trying to inspire people to
make better decisions I knew I wanted to make a change. So I figured in order to get people to
follow you have to lead them by your actions "Lead By Example" since we don't talk a lot , we
let our actions speak instead #LBE. In our mission statement we state “Lead By Example
Foundation was created to inspire the community to make smart, healthy and life changing
decisions through sport, mentor ship and charity.” which we truly believe in and follow daily
even in our everyday life. Even though we are community based our focus is on our youth
because it starts with them. A couple of events we are doing is every Friday, we feed the
homeless in the Metropolitan area where our goal is by the end of the year to have passed out
2,000 bags to the homeless. The other events consist of book reading events with up and coming
authors locally and well known , along with doing a fit boot camp for kids at a Boys & Girl Club
where we do different exercises while teaching them the importance of staying active. We are
branching out to do different events to serve our community not only focusing on the local area
but in the United States. It is up to each individual to make a difference.
Each one teach one, everyone reach one!
Teamwork
