At Manners of the Heart, our approach ensures that the resources contributed by our organization, volunteers and donors will train, support, and sustain our programs. It is our goal to meet the long term needs in our homes, schools and communities through character education that we call "heartwork."

Manners of the Heart programs are designed to strengthen morals, improve social and emotional skills and increase respectfulness — the lack of which we believe is the cause of today's problems in education. Through our programs, manners are used as teaching tool. Manners are taught not as a set of rules, but as an attitude of the heart rooted in self-respect and respect for others.