Jonathan Conrad Christopher
Foundation Twentyone is a non-profit organization. It was created to honor the life of Jonathan Conrad Christopher, son of Karen and John Christopher. Jonathan died in a tragic accident.
The more we ponder this loss the harder we work for our purpose and a cause that is growing beyond our expectations.
Memorial Foundation
John and Karen Christopher Founders of the Jonathan C. Christopher Memorial Foundation.
Foundation Twentyone is a non-profit 501c(3) organization that depends on your generosity to help us fund opportunities for our youth.
The mission is to connect with young adults and help them make responsible choices in their life and career while staying on track towards achieving a positive future.
We continue to build an organization that will help people remember the true values and responsibilities of friendship as well as respect for themselves and each other.
Our Foundation fosters in youth an awareness and respect for many available career options and offers them assistance in meeting the challenges of dependency.
We have fun events and educational projects all year. Please help us make a positive difference in our community by joining in the effort as Friends of Foundation Twentyone.
Meet the Founders
John was born in the Bay Area and moved to Novato in 1979. He and his wife Karen have been involved with sports and community events for over thirty years in Novato. As a member of the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local No. 8, John is employed by Kone Elevator Company. He loves all sports, baseball most of all, as well as barbequing, hunting and fishing. He has supported and coached Novato Little League from T-ball through Senior League.
We are committed to creating an organization that will help our young people remember the true values and responsibilities of being friends.
With the support of dear friends and the community, we are reaching out to the local Little League, High Schools, and Junior Colleges to ensure that our youth can play baseball through the assistance of our scholarship program.
When John was eighteen years old, he met some people in the elevator business. John realized they made more money than him.
John Christopher has worked for over forty-seven years in the elevator trade. The elevator trade incorporates several different trades. It is a great place to start a successful career in the trades.
John enjoys the mechanical aspect of the trade and working with his hands.
Because of his upbringing, he took many different industrial art classes in high school (including Automotive and Metal classes).
Friends of the Foundation
Our Foundation has been granting scholarships since 2008 to help local Little League youth participate in team sports, as well as granting scholarships to high school students who demonstrate exemplary efforts to incorporate the values of friendship in school and community activities. We support career planning for youth who seek to position themselves successfully in the workplace.
Since 2018, Foundation Twentyone has been actively promoting our Trades Trailer project on behalf of all high school students, whether or not they consider college as an option in the pursuit of their ongoing education.
We want to encourage the idea that a vocational path or “blue tech” as we prefer to call it—such as apprenticing to the Building Trades— is a respectable part of our society and can be personally and financially rewarding. It can require considerable ongoing education–geared not only to acquiring technical proficiency but also to the learning and implementation of important life skills such as:
COMMITMENT – TRUST – RESPONSIBILITY – RESPECT – HONESTY – INTEGRITY
These are the same principles of friendship that we espouse and encourage in our foundation activities and which form the basis of our scholarships.
With the support of dear friends and the community, we are reaching out to the local Little League, High Schools, and Junior Colleges to ensure that our youth can play baseball through the assistance of our scholarship program.
We sincerely thank all of our donors that have made this progress possible, and those that continue to contribute. Foundation Twentyone thanks every one of you!