Mission Statement

The Tyler Joseph Leonard Memorial Foundation is a non profit organization created to raise awareness for mental health and suicide prevention. Our main fundraising event held every September allows us to donate and support organizations focused around mental health and contribute to our scholarship account. Each year the foundation gifts a total of $5000.00 in scholarship money to a few of our local high schools to include Tyler’s alma mater, Dartmouth High School. 

Who was Tyler, you ask? Tyler was a funny, kind, loving young man with a passion for music. His smile was one that could light up a room. He loved with all he had and often questioned,  "why do I love so hard?" ...Hence the meaning behind our logo, “LOVE HARD”.  Tyler struggled with mental illness and lost that battle to suicide on 10/17/18, just one day before his 30th birthday. To honor Tyler’s legacy will not be in how he died, but rather how he lived in everyone that knew him. it is the goal of this foundation to change the lives of those battling mental illness. If we can play even a small part in that change by helping someone that is struggling, then we have accomplished what we have set out to do. It’s ok to not be ok. Tell your truth, for everything you want in life is on the other side of vulnerability.  Everyone has the power to say “THIS IS NOT HOW MY STORY WILL END!”