Integrity
Leading with honesty and honoring the charitable purpose of the Foundation.
Our Founder
Evelyn Morris
Founder, The Evelyn Morris Family Legacy Foundation, Inc.
"I am creating this Foundation for my family, but I am not creating it only for my family."
Evelyn Morris founded the Foundation with the hope that her family's legacy can extend into the community through education, opportunity, and service.
Her vision is not simply to create something that carries her name.
It is to create something that demonstrates what that name can represent.
A student who graduates.
A person who receives an opportunity.
A family that has food when they need it.
A child who receives a winter coat.
A mother who receives clothing for her children.
The Three Parts of Our Legacy
PREPARE
Mor’AlE University — The Foundation's Legacy Project
Education is one of the greatest forms of inheritance we can give another person.
Money can be spent. Things can be lost. Circumstances can change. But knowledge, confidence, critical thinking, skills, wisdom, and preparation can change the direction of a person's life.
Mor’AlE University, the Foundation's Legacy Project, is designed around preparation and development.
Its purpose is to help people gain knowledge, develop skills, discover opportunities, and build the confidence and preparation necessary to pursue their goals.
Through education, development, mentorship, leadership, and exposure to opportunity, Mor’AlE University seeks to help participants understand that their current circumstances do not have to define their destination.
Our goal:
Prepare people for what's next.
ADVANCE
The Clear Pathways Scholarship
Preparation matters, but sometimes preparation alone is not enough.
Students may work hard, complete programs, discover their direction, and still encounter financial barriers when they are ready to take their next step.
The Clear Pathways Scholarship was created to help qualifying students who have participated in the Mor’AlE University Legacy Program continue moving toward their educational and professional goals.
The philosophy is simple:
If we help prepare you, we should also try to help you continue forward.
The Clear Pathways Scholarship represents the Foundation's commitment to helping qualified Legacy Program participants move from preparation into opportunity.
Our goal:
Help prepared students take their next step.
PROVIDE
Doe's Closet
Doe's Closet is the Foundation's community support initiative, created in honor of Evelyn Morris's mother.
For Evelyn, the meaning behind Doe's Closet is deeply personal.
During seasons when Evelyn was raising her children as a single mother, her mother was someone she could turn to when her family needed something. Sometimes it was food. Sometimes it was clothing. Sometimes it was simply something that Evelyn could not afford to provide at that moment.
Her mother's large walk-in closet became more than a place for clothing. It became a source of help — almost like a pantry, clothing closet, storage room, and resource center combined.
Her message was simple:
"I may not have everything, but I have something."
That lesson became part of Evelyn's vision for the Foundation.
Doe's Closet carries that spirit into the community by supporting organizations that already provide essential resources to people and families in need.
The Foundation may support qualifying organizations through:
Financial awards
In-kind donations
Community resource support
Support for food distributions
Clothing drives
Seasonal giveaways
Programs serving mothers and children
Programs supporting families and individuals experiencing difficult circumstances
Doe's Closet does not have to be a physical closet.
It can be a way of making sure organizations that open their own "closets" to the community have additional resources to continue their work.
Our goal:
Support those who provide for others.
Our Commitment
The Evelyn Morris Family Legacy Foundation is established with a commitment to:
Transparency
Treating charitable resources with care, accountability, and responsibility.
Stewardship
Recognizing that resources entrusted to the Foundation exist to support its charitable mission.
Compassion
Remembering the people and communities the Foundation exists to serve.
Opportunity
Creating pathways that can help people prepare for and pursue their next steps.
Generational Responsibility
Teaching future generations that a family legacy is a responsibility to serve, not simply something to possess.