When Bobby Ray Phills, II, founded the Bobby Phills Educational Awareness Foundation in 1996, he envisioned an organization that would promote and develop educational awareness among children who were less fortunate. The goal of the Foundation is to provide children with a means of academic and intellectual stimuli and growth through academic programs, athletic/sports programs and activities; mentoring programs; and social and leadership development programs. The Foundation is registered in the State of Louisiana as a non-profit 501.3C tax exempt organization. It operates through a Board of Directors who have as their primary responsibilities, the furtherance of the ideals Bobby, II established as a blueprint of his life and set forth in the goals and objectives of his Foundation. Chief among them was the art of maintaining a proper balance between academics and athletics.
Goals and objectives
- To promote and develop educational awareness throughout this State and Nation without regards to race, creed, color, sex, physical condition or socio-economic level by means of academic and intellectual stimuli and growth and through physical, athletic, civil and social development;
- To encourage in and conduct educational awareness projects and programs, counseling and consultation to the public and private sectors;
- To develop and implement educational awareness through academic programs and psychological development;
- To foster positive and wholesome interaction and good will in families, neighborhoods and communities;
- To purchase, acquire, construct, lease, maintain and operate in this State and elsewhere educational and athletic facilities for enhancement of the total person;
- To acquire and hold by purchase, lease or otherwise, lands, tenements and hereditaments in the United States and its territories and any other places where the business of this corporation may be carried on, to use, improve, manage, lease, mortgage, or otherwise encumber any and all of said land, tenements or hereditaments and real property;
- To borrow from any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or organization with or without security, collateral or endorsement in any sums whatsoever as it shall see fit which shall not be contrary to provisions of these Articles of Incorporation and its By-Laws;
- To receive donations, gifts, bequests and other advantages to and for the fulfillment of the objectives and purposes of this corporation;
- To perform any and all acts which are not contrary to the corporation’s laws of this State and the Nation, and in particular the Internal Revenue Code.