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The Jewel Guild Foundation Providing youth with positive mentoring role modeling and scholarship assistance to higher education institutions. The Jewel Guild Foundation is a 501 c 3 organization that supports the various communities located within and around Shelby County Tennessee through its educational programs to improve academic achievement financial literacy and social equilibrium. Our focus is to provide youth with positive mentoringrole modeling and scholarship assistance to higher education institutions. One of our aims will be to discourage criminal activity and highrisk behavior among youth with the goal being to facilitate systematic changes in the areas of economic empowerment community leadership social involvement and to help facilitate healthy families.