Choices Foundation, a national non-profit 501(c)3 foundation, is designed to educate people about choices, consequences and ethics through presentations, training, and educational scholarships.

As we journey through life often unusual circumstances can help us find a meaningful purpose for our existence.   Every choice we make has a consequence, sometimes positive or sometimes negative, each a lesson.  Our mistakes can often imprison us and frequently become our teacher.  When we least expect it and just when we need it most, often we find a helping hand along the way.   Sometimes we are presented the rewarding opportunity to “pay it forward” by extending a hand to other people.

If youth in our colleges, universities, or high schools can understand the connection between choices and consequences and the importance of ethics and integrity, perhaps they can be spared painful life lessons.  Learning from Gallagher’s experiences or the experiences of other people can provide a successful outcome.  By illuminating stories from those who have experienced negative consequences and recovered, the Choices Foundation provides hope, inspiration and guidance.

In 1996, as a result of making unethical choices, Chuck Gallagher was an inmate in federal prison.  Since prisons provide the opportunity of significant time alone, they are places where real growth from lessons can occur, a form of rehabilitation.  As such, through self-evaluation some people can experience truly meaningful inner changes.   Gallagher was allowed to participate in a program where inmates shared their experiences and made presentations to impressionable youth in school.  The experience was profound and the introspection that followed became the spark that established the Choices Foundation