As one of America’s top speakers, it is an event you won’t want to miss! Kevin Saunders has a tremendous passion and the leadership it takes to get the message to our nation’s youth. Kevin believes that teaching students and giving them the power with education, knowledge and learning how to make wise choices for staying active and eating the right foods that those students will be able to reach their personal goals for their individual fitness levels.
Kevin Saunders was the first person with a disability to be appointed to Presidents Council – Physical Fitness & Sports & Nutrition by President H.W. Bush and the only person to be reappointed by President Clinton where he served for two terms of the Clinton Administration as the Senior Member.
Kevin with help of a local Houston CPA Anegli Arjunani and firm Kevin was able to submit his 1023 to get a tax free I.D. from the IRS. First Kevin had to have some lawyers fill out the bylaws & a Certificate of Filling of the “Fitness 4 All 50 State Tour” to the Texas Attorney General for accreditation and received a EIN # It was also necessary to get a DUNS # from Washington D.C. for a profile for Government grants. This all enabled Kevin to move forward with his dream of the “Fitness 4 All 50 State Tour” To help educate the youth of America and the American people about the positive effects of physical fitness and proper nutrition, in such way that they are inspired to actively make healthier choices for a lifetime and pass it on to their children.
Kevin Saunders was nominated by Senator Roberts, to chair Presidents Fitness Council, which Kevin was humbly grateful and ready to serve and begin his “Fitness 4 All 50 State Tour”. President Obama appointed Drew Brees QB Super Champion of the New Orleans Saints & Dominique Dawes a 3 time Olympic Gymnast as Co-chairs of the Fitness Council.
That’s when Kevin decided to go forward with nonprofit corporation, “Fitness 4 All 50 State Tour,” on his own by raising grant monies to fund this herculean effort!, Kevin & a team will travel to all 50 states, covering each state center, north, east, west, south, to educate our nation’s youth on the importance of education why our students should eat good balanced nutritional meals, healthy snacks, get involved in fitness activities, sports, and educating and motivating them to making healthier choices a habit for a life time.
Here is the Vision, Mission, Purpose & Organizational Summary for the Fitness 4 All 50 State Tour:
PURPOSE:
Our purpose is to educate the youth of America and the American people about the positive effects of physical fitness and proper nutrition, in such way that they are inspired to actively make healthier choices for a lifetime and pass it on to their children.
MISSION:
Our organization’s mission is to inspire, motivate and empower our nation’s youth, through education to make healthier lifestyle choices by helping each student develop a vision for their personal fitness, activities, sports, making good daily nutritional choices and build internal motivation of those ideas so they are motivated from within to seek out healthier choices on a daily basis. So they can make better choices that will enable them to lead healthier lives for a lifetime of quality living for generations to come. They will have that knowledge available to pass on to their family, siblings, children and grandchildren now and later in life.
VISION:
It is our vision for our nation’s youth to have a solid background, knowledge and understanding of the huge importance and the significance of lifelong positive implications of taking part in physical fitness, activities, sports and how to and why making good overall nutritional choices versus not taking action. We will use daily personal accountability journals for students to help them (write down & visualize themselves reaching their goals and taking action on them) set short and long term goals for participation in fitness activities, sports, making good nutritional choices along with choosing to make daily improved overall healthier choices. This way they can look at their personal daily journals over a period of weeks and months and see how their personal choices and each decision they make effects how they feel, their self esteem, how they see themselves, their energy levels, and increases their ability to learn. This type of accountability helps each student develop a personal desire to make the necessary changes to make better choices to lead healthier lives.
During our 50 state tour our focus is also to keep a balance between big and small schools, cities and towns located in the center, north, south, east and west corners of each state in all 50 states. Our vision is for our presentations to create a synergy with our audiences where we are able to become simpatico with the students with through a sharing of information, thoughts, ideas, examples and facts to help create a deep desire within the students by synergizing with them through our presentations, media interviews and website. To create an environment where students throughout each state are motivated from within to set and reach personal goals for their own fitness, health and well being. We will help create a desire within the students to become motivated and inspired to carry on active lifestyles, with good nutrition and making healthier choices on a daily basis for a lifetime.
ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY:
For the “Fitness 4 All 50 State Tour” which is a nonprofit organization dedicated and focused towards our nation’s youth to help educate, motivate, and inspire students and participants to set and reach daily personal goals and accept personal responsibility for their health, fitness, sports activities, making good and better nutritional choices and overall healthier choices regardless of their challenges, adversities, or personal tragedies.
We will provide “My Daily Healthy Lifestyle Journals” to the students in selected schools we visit throughout each state in all 50 states so they can see how their fitness, nutritional and overall health goals, minds and bodies are affected by their daily choices. Through government and corporate collaborations, we aim to directly educate our nation’s youth, parents, teachers, Mayors, community leaders, Governors and state leaders on why, when, how and where to make fitness activities, sports and healthier lifestyle choices a normal part everyday life for our nation’s youth, parents, teachers, administrators, workforce, community and state. Why increasing the state budget to fund public schools with educational programs for fitness, activities and sports and nutritional classes is absolutely necessary and absolutely paramount for today’s millennium generation with 60% of our teenagers overweight and 17% obese with almost 150 billion dollars being spent in America on obesity related diseases, the time for action is now!
