About the Foundation
A hands-on education for the real world.
Welcome
The Hope Elizabeth Foundation exists to equip Jesus’s kingdom — with every tool we can build, write, or share. Free-market education is one of those tools. The John Shepherd Project is another. They are not separate efforts; they are different avenues of the same purpose. We are based in Fort Worth, Texas, and our work is freely shared with the people and organizations who can put it to use.
Our Purpose
At its root, our purpose is to equip Jesus’s kingdom — with every tool we can. That work shows up as free-market education for emerging entrepreneurs and as theological writing and study under the John Shepherd Project. Different avenues, same purpose.
More specifically, our purpose is to enable people to imitate their Creator in free thinking, free creating, and freely empowering others — with the end goal of founding institutions which mirror the free market’s sustainability in their organization, administration, and curriculum.
Students are best prepared to enter the real world’s free market economy if they have worked with their hands, been allowed to fail, developed a good work ethic, understood the free market, and started several businesses. Students need more than technical skills; they need free market skills and the courage to take risks.
Our Mission
The Hope Elizabeth Foundation strives to give individuals the freedom of self-determination by empowering people to think freely and to create in the free market world — so that they can achieve health spiritually, emotionally, financially, physically, and relationally, and have the opportunity to generously empower others.
Education must reflect the modern age more than the education of Antiquity or Feudal Europe. Success and leadership today require expertise in financial literacy and economization of resources. Money and capital are not magical. They are tools, and students must know how to use these tools in the real world.
Our Vision
The Hope Elizabeth Foundation envisions a society of self-determining, free thinking, and freely creating individuals.
The classroom is not only for the mind but for the whole person. The Hope Elizabeth Foundation supports traditional Christian morality and ethics derived from the Bible — including integrity, diligence, and generosity.
Since all persons, knowledge, and actions must operate within a worldview, the Hope Elizabeth Foundation openly supports a holistic Christian worldview based on global expressions of Christianity. While the freedom to think and the freedom to create allow for human success, lasting joy is found only in Christ Jesus and in imitating Him alongside other believers in a local church.
“Our future is dependent upon our children’s education freeing them to think, to create, and to determine their own destiny.”
— The Hope Elizabeth Foundation