OUR MISSION
To educate, equip and empower faith-based leaders to embrace and apply biblical principles to life and in the marketplace
DLI was created to equip men and women of faith for civic engagement and leadership, with a special focus on the Black community. Our uniquely tailored programs excite, inform, and activate participants across the country to lead positive community change.
What is the Frederick Douglass Foundation?
The Frederick Douglass Foundation is a public policy and educational organization which brings the sanctity of free market and limited government ideas to bear on the hardest problems facing our nation. We are a collection of pro-active individuals committed to developing innovative and new approaches to today’s problems.
OUR VISION
The Frederick Douglass Foundation is a national education and public policy organization with local chapters across the United States which brings the sanctity of free market and limited government ideas to bear on the hardest problems facing our nation.
We are a collection of pro-active individuals committed to developing innovative and new approaches to today's issues with the assistance of elected officials, scholars from universities and colleges and community activist.
WHAT WE DO
Act as liaisons to Black, Faith Based organizations, Conservative candidates, party and elected officials.
We will reach out to educate the social, cultural, spiritual, and civic rights needs of our nation.
Train political workers, volunteers, and candidates as leaders in the political arena.
Provide tools for improving the economic status of the individuals, families and businesses within the targeted communities, thus, enhancing the quality of life.
OUR LEADERSHIP
Members of the Frederick Douglass Foundation believe: We live in a land of liberty where natural rights of individuals precede and supersede the power of the state. We are a constitutional republic in which government power is limited and employed for the purpose of providing legitimate public goods rather than for the benefit of insiders and narrow interest groups.
We believe in the free market in which persons, individually or collectively, have the natural right to sell goods and services to willing buyers, and in which the individual pursuit of economic opportunity benefits all.
We are a free society where citizens solve social problems not only through government but also by working together in families, neighborhoods, churches, charities, and other private, voluntary organizations.
MEET LETITIA WONG
She attended her first two years of college at Phoenix Community College in AZ on a scholarship and graduated with a BS in Health Sciences from Purdue University in Indiana in 1997.
Letitia is passionately involved in the thoughtful, public defense of the Christian faith and of pre-born life from the injustice of abortion.
In college, she served as a student leader in her university chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (Purdue) and at Campus Ambassadors Christian Fellowship (Arizona State), tutoring fellow students how to engage with peers with tough questions about the Christian faith and worldview.
In 2000, Letitia married her husband Conway and moved to St. Louis where both volunteer in Christian youth ministry and teaching others how to answer difficult worldview questions. She has also spent the last 11 years volunteering for a youth ministry called Faith Ascent Ministries
as a curriculum developer, a "camp mom," and a speaker.
Beginning in 2009, Letitia joined the Tea Party Movement. From 2009 to 2014, she and former FDFMO president and founder of the Missouri branch, Thomas Smith, hosted TRU-Life Fridays Radio, an online talk radio program about pro-life issues and public policy.
She also conducts Navigating Media Pitfalls on Pro-Life Issues, a strategy seminar designed to prepare pro-life speakers, public officeholders, and candidates to speak about pro-life measures with the news media in interviews.
Letitia blogs occasionally at Talitha, Koum! Files, her personal blog about anything on her mind.