Who We Are and What We Do

The Foundation and Ministry of L.I.F.E. is a 501c4 tax-exempt non-profit Social Welfare organization established by Dr. Brian N. Hewlett originally in Arizona in 2017 and moved to Denver, Colorado in 2019 with the goal of facilitating greatness through the ideology of Limitless Ideas and Free Environments.

The Foundation and Ministry is tasked with helping to facilitate the removal of mental, physical, and/or sociocultural limitations to the citizenry of Colorado and the world and we manage this mission by facilitating programs designed to benefit five primary causes set forth by our charitable sister organization, ULC Denver.

Learn more about who we are and these five primary causes at the About Us section of our website.

The major work objectives of the Foundation and Ministry of L.I.F.E. are to:

  1. raise awareness about issues and problems related to existing limitations to free environments
  2. raise and help administer funds and collect resources necessary to remove or reverse various limitations for persons with mental and physical challenges, underrepresented populations, and populations commonly targeted for discrimination or oppression

The Foundation and Ministry of L.I.F.E. recently helped raise awareness about losses suffered by artists and musicians that were negatively affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton in September and October of 2024. The damage from these hurricanes is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars and hundreds if not thousands of artists and musicians in those areas lost equipment, previous work, instruments, studios and performance spaces in those storms.

In an attempt to assist in the recovery effort The Foundation and Ministry of L.I.F.E. helped produce Carolina, Florida, Georgia On My Mind: A Hurricane Relief Event that benefitted the ULC Denver Festival Friends Charitable Fund, which directly assisted artists and musicians who suffered to the twin hurricanes.

Held on Sunday November 23, 2024 at Your Mom’s House in Denver, Colorado, the event brought together over 15 artists, musicians and poets from the Denver area and as far away as the Florida and Georgia areas affected by these devastating storms.

Simultaneously, the Foundation and Ministry of L.I.F.E. has embarked upon a number of community projects and is currently working to secure grant funding needed to facilitate them.

  • The Mystery Latrine is a mobile project that attempts to address everyday difficulties in gaining necessities associated with homelessness. Some of the greatest needs of the homeless is finding food, assess to bathrooms, meaningful social interaction, places to maintain physical hygiene, places to wash and dry clothing, assess to seasonal clothing, safe places to exist, mental and physical healthcare and employment, just to name a few. The mobile station provides laundry facilities, relaxing space to socialize, showers, coffee and juice bar, clothing exchange, and relevant workshops. The project attempts to also serve as a mobile introduction to other services offered to the homeless in the area including complimentary food from local food pantries, restaurant meals in exchange for work, complimentary clothing and toiletry outlets, etc.
  • The Denver Area Urban CSA is a Community Sponsored Agriculture program that provides members with materials and equipment needed to grow crops in the urban places and spaces where people currently exist. Members grow specific crops that they bring to a central market where they are distributed along with the yield from other members in monthly CSA boxes. Members are also participate in farming workshops that teach them to efficiently grow in their urban environments.
  • Project Redemption is a program that seeks justice for unfairly incarcerated individuals that have committed non-violent offenses. Poor people and people of color are disproportionately represented in the U.S. prison system due to policies that force mandatory minimums and require incarceration after multiple offenses and the fact that they didn’t have the resources necessary to fight for their freedom. This program works with various legal services to get sentences appealed with the hopes of being commuted or overturned and dismissed.

Learn how you can help these projects grow and thrive by volunteering your time and efforts and/or providing financial assistance through gifts to the ULC Denver Charitable Funds on our Support Page.

It is only with the help of local communities will these projects grow and survive.

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