2025 You Can Scholarship campaign by JC Cooley Foundation

2025 Scholarships


 Scholarship Program FlyerThe average annual cost of attending college in the United States, including books, supplies, and living expenses, is $38,270 per student. (EducationData.org).
The JC Cooley Foundation is committed to educating today's youngsters to be tomorrow's leaders. In 2024, the group gave $500 scholarships to 14 students as part of our pledge.

This year, our plan is to awards deserving high seniors at least 30 scholarships of $250 and $500 or more to graduating seniors. To assist in not only lowering the debt of our future leaders and to help acknowledge hard work and dedicated students, please consider sponsoring a student for a scholarship.

Since the JC Cooley Foundation is a nonprofit, all donations are tax-deductible. We can provide you with a receipt of your donation along with our EIN number for employers who provide matching funds.

 

The J C Cooley Foundation
Options & Opportunities: The Choice Program

Equipping the Youth of Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow

New Release - A Black Man's Point of View

 

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The James Cooley Show - It's Your Life

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Options & Opportunities: The Choice Program

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It's Your Life Radio Show

With your Host J C Cooley

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J C Cooley The Author

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Dr James JC Cooley
Recipient of The 44th (President Obama) Presidential Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award (2023)

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Dr Michelle Cooley
Recipient of Outstanding Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy in the field of Entrepreneurship & Business Administration, December 2022.

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Dr James J C Cooley
Recipient of The Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award December 2022.

"Cabin Fever" guests Adam Dailey, Dr. Joy Wright, Mark Glover & 2020 graduating student Elijah Perry.

About Adam Dailey, Owner of historic Buckner Hotel, San Diego

Adam DailyAll American collegiate track athlete and multi-time national champion.
Driven entrepreneur looking to build and innovate across any and every channel available. Expertise in team building, business strategy, public speaking, digital media and company core values.

Dailey has lived all over the world, setting up businesses in Canada, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany and the USA. Dailey is a recognized expert in the fields of sports hospitality, sponsorship and entrepreneurialism. Dailey has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Sports Business Journal, Bloomberg, the NY Times, Business Week, Frommer's, Inc. Magazine and more. He has also been cited in various books (including A Guide to Planning the Perfect Family Vacation and Double Double).

Dailey founded Ludus Sports in 2003 and built it up to an Inc. 500 business in less than seven years. Ludus is the recipient of various awards, including San Diego's Fastest-Growing Businesses, the #2 Fastest-Growing Travel Business in the USA, Best Places to Work, San Diego's Healthiest Companies and a Finalist for one of San Diego Chamber of Commerce's Most Innovative Products.

Dailey has been a panelist and speaker for various organizations and events, ranging from Inc. Magazine to the United Parcel Service and EO's Alchemy.

Dailey has served in leadership positions on the Board for the San Diego Sports Commission, Entrepreneur Organization (EO) San Diego and San Diego Sport Innovators (SDSI).

Dailey was named a Finalist (2011, 2012) for San Diego's Most Admired CEO. Dailey is an extremely entrepreneurial-minded executive who is always looking to build teams, learn from others and lead.


About Dr Joy Wright

Dr Joy Wright

Dr. Joy Wright was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama with three brothers and two sisters. She graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and was selected for flight training in Pensacola, Florida. She earned her Naval Flight Officer Wings and served as an Active Duty Officer flying F-14 Tomcats. She was selected to be part of the integration of women on aircraft carriers and served on the USS Roosevelt as the first female in the ship’s company. After serving eight years of active duty in the navy, Joy was diagnosed with lupus and was medically retired from the navy. Although she loved serving in the military, she also loved the training programs she provided on active duty. She decided to go to graduate school and obtained a master’s degree in Psychology and a Doctorate in Organizational Development to continue training. She has over 17 years of experience in consulting with the military, corporate sector, and non-profits. Dr. Wright and Ray Leonard Jr Co-founded Launch Team Consulting and provide consulting to the military and many corporate organizations designing and providing leadership and management training programs, diversity and inclusion training, facing adversity training, and high-risk behavior prevention.

Dr. Wright met her husband, Will Wright, in the Navy. He also flew jets in the Navy flying F-14s, F/A-18s, and C-40s, including a mission where he launched in an F-14 on September 11th, 2001 to defend our country and protect our freedom. After Will finished his active duty flying, Joy and Will moved to Temecula in 2007. Their oldest son, Thomas, is a freshman at Yale University and is studying Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology. They also have twin boys, James and Jack Wright who are juniors at Great Oak High School enjoying track and field in pole vault and throws. They recently have been dancing their way to the Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, and ad campaigns on the social media platform, TikTok.

Joy is on the Advisory Committee for Rose Again Foundation. She is also an active volunteer with the Semper Fi Fund and her entire family is active volunteering at their events assisting with disabled veterans and active-duty members in our local area. Both Joy and her husband have provided coaching in soccer, track, and football over the years in the local community and at Linfield Christian. Joy volunteered as the football team mom at Linfield for over three years. She continues to volunteer on the Safety Committee and safety task force at Linfield. Joy loves to volunteer especially in her local community.

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About Mark Glover, CEO of High Grade

Mark Glover

Mark Glover is a seasoned professional and effectual leader with a proven ability in his 10+ year sales career.

Throughout Mark's career, he has been a Master of presentations and production, has powerful but gentle and creative closing abilities, and a passion for growing personal relationships with clients. These abilities give Mark the edge in being able to recognize and capture exceptional talent in the sales industry. 

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"Time is your most precious asset

it is the only possession you own.

Don't waste it. How you plan to use this time will determine your future. Develop a plan of action, write it down, commit to your plan, and focus on the execution of the plan. Time will not stop, slow down or wait on you. Use your time wisely." ~ J C Cooley

Our Mission

The foundation exists to provide youth life skills and mentorship programs to all young adults in need. To accomplish this goal, the youth are placed in an environment designed to promote a positive relationship between the youth and professional mentor. This environment will allow the youth to create his/her own successful learning environment, obtaining life-long skills sets which reinforce personal responsibly while educating on life skills and goal setting. We believe in helping our youth focus on a personal change that will enhance their opportunities of success in society.

 
Our goal is to provide our youth and young adults with options and opportunities that will allow them to make the best choices in their life decisions. The program is designed to assist youths and young adults in self-identifying skills of leadership, motivation, guidance and mentorship that will formulate a sense of positive thinking, direction, and the pursuit of excellence, ensuring our youth are prepared to take on tomorrow’s challenges.

Our Vision

Options & Opportunities: the Choice Program’s initial goal is to create a life skill academic pilot program, in partnership with the local high schools in Riverside County. The concept of this program is to provide leadership and life skills curriculum for six consecutive weeks (2 hours sessions) with a variety of learning topics each week. With the assistance of certified professional counselors, this program will provide the right training material and curriculum required to equip these young adults for their futures, as our great nation’s leaders of tomorrow.

To accomplish this goal, OOCP is pursuing partnerships, sponsorships, fund raisers, donations, grants and other options to acquire the necessary funds to make OOCP a reality.

In addition, OOCP’s primary goal is to provide four separate one-week camp programs that will include a controlled boot camp, life style program that will provide: time management, goal setting, self-esteem and confidence building, guidance, critical thinking, conflict resolution and learning how to ask the right questions as it relates to the needs to achieve in society. The Options and Opportunities: the Choice Program will strengthen interpersonal relationship and improve the young person's confidence through character building, while providing the right direction for our youth for a brighter future.

The ultimate goal is to become a global force, expanding our vision and leadership by insuring our organization is a guiding force for excellence as it relates to the world's youth.

J.C. Cooley Foundation LLC 
5505 Bandelier Trail, Fort Worth Texas 76137
Phone:(817) 729-6272 or Email: info@cooleyfoundation.org

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