How Big Is Your Dream?! Foundation Youth Arts Programs
How Big Is Your Dream?! Foundation, 3035 Stone Mountain St, Lithonia, GA 30058
About
How Big Is Your Dream?! Foundation Youth Arts Programs offers youth arts experiences that include the Academy of the Arts, in-school programs, Career Days, M.A.D.E. For the Industry, P.A.I.D Career Readiness, Student-Artist Spotlight, and School Talent Show Coaching Support. The programs include music education activities, performing arts, multidisciplinary programs, and training clinics for youth, their parents, and community advocates.
The How Big Is Your Dream?! Foundation came into fruition on March 24, 2011, and was founded in 2011 with a focus on three core values. The Foundation states that its mission is to promote, educate and develop youth to excel and reach their dreams through these programs, and it is committed to maintaining interactive teaching and learning models that connect youth with resources that prepare them for transitions into healthy adulthood. Its stated mission includes empowering youth through arts and education, promoting community engagement, and building sustainable partnerships, and its vision is described as a blueprint that begins with an ambition to serve, offer engagement programs, and provide scholarships that support personal and career development. The Foundation creates, delivers and evolves the promotion, education and development of youth in all sectors of music and performing arts, and it establishes a platform that fosters learning and performance, enabling mastery of diverse talents through multidisciplinary programs and training clinics for youth, their parents and community advocates.
The programs are described as working with all talent levels in the arts, from beginning to advanced, and are targeted toward individuals who desire a sustainable career in the entertainment industry. The Foundation states that its programs provide students the ability to express what others may struggle to convey, enhance confidence, and support the development of a mature delivery. It also states that students gain increased knowledge to help organize ideas and teams, develop skills that transfer across multiple careers, understand contemporary sound across diverse genres, and develop skills in organizing creative concepts and collaborating with teams or bands. The Foundation notes that students learn from seasoned industry professionals and gain enhanced confidence and refined delivery to achieve a more mature artistic presence.
Jorel “JFly” Flynn is the CEO and Founder of the How Big Is Your Dream?! Foundation. He is described as a dynamic musician with a profound mastery of the drums who has collaborated with Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Bobby Brown, Peabo Bryson, André 3000, Cameo, New Edition, Aretha Franklin, After 7, Grammy award-winning Kristian Bush of Sugarland, and John Hopkins of the Zac Brown Band. He is the former President of the Recording Academy Atlanta Chapter and co-chair of its Education Committee. His television credits include serving as music director for WSB Centennial Olympic Park’s 4th of July Celebration, the Soul Train Music Awards, BET’s Sunday Best, the Heisman Trophy Awards, and Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself and A Madea’s Family Funeral, and he contributed to the movie Genius: Aretha. He serves on the Georgia Tech School of Music advisory board and is a Berklee College of Music alumnus, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts Studies.
The Foundation focuses on community outreach through performing arts and sustainable civic engagement via hyperlocal partnership development opportunities. It provides mentorship and resources to aspiring students seeking careers in the entertainment industry. Its community work includes activities such as Academy of the Arts Session, Clayton County Back To School, HBIYD Changing Dreams Into Reality, HBIYD Unity Concert on Fox 5, How Big Is Your Dream?! in the Schools, and HBIYD Servicing Our Schools. The Foundation also unites youth in the “No More Blood on Our Hands” movement against gang violence.
How Big Is Your Dream?! Foundation has received an Outstanding Georgia Citizenship Award. Jorel “JFly” Flynn has received proclamations as an Outstanding Georgia Citizen from the Secretary of State. Testimonials about the Foundation describe it as an awesome foundation creating pathways for aspiring artists, very informative, and greatly needed to share with students, and they state that J Fly and his team have created an environment to grow future “Super Stars.”
Last updated July 31, 2026.
The How Big Is Your Dream?! Foundation came into fruition on March 24, 2011, and was founded in 2011 with a focus on three core values. The Foundation states that its mission is to promote, educate and develop youth to excel and reach their dreams through these programs, and it is committed to maintaining interactive teaching and learning models that connect youth with resources that prepare them for transitions into healthy adulthood. Its stated mission includes empowering youth through arts and education, promoting community engagement, and building sustainable partnerships, and its vision is described as a blueprint that begins with an ambition to serve, offer engagement programs, and provide scholarships that support personal and career development. The Foundation creates, delivers and evolves the promotion, education and development of youth in all sectors of music and performing arts, and it establishes a platform that fosters learning and performance, enabling mastery of diverse talents through multidisciplinary programs and training clinics for youth, their parents and community advocates.
The programs are described as working with all talent levels in the arts, from beginning to advanced, and are targeted toward individuals who desire a sustainable career in the entertainment industry. The Foundation states that its programs provide students the ability to express what others may struggle to convey, enhance confidence, and support the development of a mature delivery. It also states that students gain increased knowledge to help organize ideas and teams, develop skills that transfer across multiple careers, understand contemporary sound across diverse genres, and develop skills in organizing creative concepts and collaborating with teams or bands. The Foundation notes that students learn from seasoned industry professionals and gain enhanced confidence and refined delivery to achieve a more mature artistic presence.
Jorel “JFly” Flynn is the CEO and Founder of the How Big Is Your Dream?! Foundation. He is described as a dynamic musician with a profound mastery of the drums who has collaborated with Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Bobby Brown, Peabo Bryson, André 3000, Cameo, New Edition, Aretha Franklin, After 7, Grammy award-winning Kristian Bush of Sugarland, and John Hopkins of the Zac Brown Band. He is the former President of the Recording Academy Atlanta Chapter and co-chair of its Education Committee. His television credits include serving as music director for WSB Centennial Olympic Park’s 4th of July Celebration, the Soul Train Music Awards, BET’s Sunday Best, the Heisman Trophy Awards, and Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself and A Madea’s Family Funeral, and he contributed to the movie Genius: Aretha. He serves on the Georgia Tech School of Music advisory board and is a Berklee College of Music alumnus, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts Studies.
The Foundation focuses on community outreach through performing arts and sustainable civic engagement via hyperlocal partnership development opportunities. It provides mentorship and resources to aspiring students seeking careers in the entertainment industry. Its community work includes activities such as Academy of the Arts Session, Clayton County Back To School, HBIYD Changing Dreams Into Reality, HBIYD Unity Concert on Fox 5, How Big Is Your Dream?! in the Schools, and HBIYD Servicing Our Schools. The Foundation also unites youth in the “No More Blood on Our Hands” movement against gang violence.
How Big Is Your Dream?! Foundation has received an Outstanding Georgia Citizenship Award. Jorel “JFly” Flynn has received proclamations as an Outstanding Georgia Citizen from the Secretary of State. Testimonials about the Foundation describe it as an awesome foundation creating pathways for aspiring artists, very informative, and greatly needed to share with students, and they state that J Fly and his team have created an environment to grow future “Super Stars.”
Last updated July 31, 2026.
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