for your entertainment the promise of youth lebron james aims to inspire students to push for their dreams by judi ketteler iving back to his community was never an afterthought for lebron family foundation at the very beginning of his james explains that he always knew-even before he got drafted to the nba-that he wanted to find some way to give back to the community that had done so much for him the foundation had some early success efforts needed a sharper focus to make the most connect with the students and their families and really address what they need,” he says the foundation started a program to serve in addition to teaching a stem-focused to support the students' families—from helping parents earn a ged diploma and find career enough to eat and have other personal care inaugural class of 240 third- and fourth-grade students who were behind in critical academic through eighth grade students at ips make a set of promises to themselves at the beginning of the year and the difference it makes for students to hold that we wanted to share with kids everywhere.” that's why he wrote a picture book called metaphors that james' fans will no doubt let my magic shine."