What We Do
Encourage & Promote
Encourage and Promote education performance. Studies have shown that rewarding or positive feedback and reinforcement results in an increase in performance vs. negative feedback or punishment for children.
Student Achievement
Identify students that are performing well in school. We aim to encourage students to continue their current behavior of performing well in school through rewards and positive reinforcement.
Rewarding Students
Inspire students to continue to self-motivate and excel in studies. We provide various ways to reward students for performance to promote continued success in academics.
How We Have Helped
Laura’s Gift Foundation and Memphis Academy of Health Sciences High School Partnered to Expose Students to Accounting and Finance as careers and the importance of credit scores and savings.
Our Inspiration
Laura’s Gift Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that was started from the simple concept of “encouragement and support”. As humans, we are affected by our natural character as well as the environment. The environment brings about situations that exude our natural character. And, as we all know, we have multiple environments and external influences that are impacting us. Environment can have lasting effects in both positive and negative ways.
Growing up, there was a man in church that would give me $5 for every “A” and $4 for every “B” on the report card. In addition, if making the honor roll, my dad would give $25. This encouraged me to continue to make good grades as I looked forward to the reward.
In addition to these rewards received, I was raised by a woman that taught herself the Bible (and preached at some churches), many words in the dictionary and started an organization. With this organization, she would raise funds that were used to help others pay bills or buy food. Never once did she misuse those funds for personal reasons, even though we didn’t have much ourselves. From her, I learned integrity, morals, perseverance, wisdom, encouragement, will-power, moving forward, and what it means to be a “Human” and treat everyone else as you treat yourself.
Her name…………Laura.
How You Can Help
We are non-profit organization. Any and all donations are welcomed. No amount is too small in contributing to the future professionals of our country and world.
Where your money goes:
To students that are performing well in school. They will be rewarded in different ways: School supplies, Clothes, Funds that go toward higher education, Recognition to name a few.
Effects on Punishment vs. Rewards on student academic achievement
States with the longest history of forbidding corporal punishment, resulted in ACT improvement rates three times higher than states with frequent use of corporal punishment (Human Rights Watch). Extrinsic Rewards inspire students to continue to self-motivate and excel in academic achievements.
- Punishment – Significant Effect
- Intrinsic Reward – Intangible - No Effect
- Extrinsic Reward – Tangible – Significant Effect
