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.

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Options & Opportunities: The Choice Program

Equipping the Youth of Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow

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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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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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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.

Options & Opportunities: The Choice Program (OOCP)

A nonprofit organization focused on providing life skills and mentoring programs for middle school to high school young adults.

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with James Cooley a motivational speaker here to equip you to strive for greatness and overcome adversity. Life is a series of circles and cycles, phases, and stages. These are the experiences that teach you the lessons of life. You can either ignore them or EMBRACE them. James Cooley offers motivation and inspiration for life's challenges.

James “JC” Cooley is the author of several books.

“Country Boy, City Boy, A Journey That  Ain't Over Yet” is the title of his latest book, a memoir based on his life experiences.

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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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