Let's Put Our Future First!
Our mission is to create opportunities for our youth to have real success in life while building and supporting our communities and schools. To establish genuine & sustainable change, we promise to always put our future, our children, first!
About Us
Brought together by the tragic loss of our friend and student Maurice Lewis, our team consists of individuals who share the belief that we must put our children, our future, first. We are normal people, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, wives and husbands, educators and community leaders, who understand that we must act now if we want to create lasting change for our future. We all have different backgrounds, life experiences, professions, hobbies, views, and more. Our journeys give us unique perspective to help our communities, schools, and organizations grow and thrive. Let us help you!
What We Do
We provide professional and personal growth opportunities in schools, businesses, & organizations, youth empowerment events, community coalition building, and much more! Just ask!
Community Building
Collaborating with community members to identify areas of need and organize together to make it a reality.
Education & Growth Opportunities
Decades of experience allow us to create programs for students, teachers, communities, and schools to bring real change and growth.
Youth Empowerment
Committed to working with youth to build their power, confidence, and ability to impact their world.
Reese’s House: An Update
We officially started our fundraising efforts to build Reese's House, featuring a collaboration with Wildflower Vegan Cafe, last December. We had a deadline to raise the down payment for the building, about $30,000, by March. Within the span of 3 months, we had...
Recap: Our 2nd Annual Holiday Toy Drive
When we announced our Second Annual Holiday Toy Drive in the middle of a global pandemic, we anticipated receiving many requests for help from families in our community. Within a month of launching our sign-up form, we had over 400 responses for individual children...
Help us build Reese’s House!
We started Our Future First, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit, after losing our friend Maurice Lewis in May of 2018 to an act of random gun violence in our hometown of Millville, NJ. At 19 years old, Reese was the kind of person who did everything he could to help...