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The Brown Foundation of Nokesville, Virginia was originally created in the backwaters of Labadeville, Louisiana in Summer of 1986 by Lewis R. Brown. It serviced the areas of Greater Baton Rouge, New Orleans, ,and the greater Thibodaux areas. The main function of this foundation was Grant Writing/Researching for non-profits and profit business throughout the above mentioned areas. From about 1986 through December 1997 business was booming for the Brown Foundation and the CEO/Founder, now known as Dr. Lewis R. Brown, added his then girlfriend, Shamira A. Jones, to the fold and made her his research partner for many grant-writing and grant-proposal making projects. Together this young duo also did some work for the historic Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) on the Mississippi River Keeper Project in addition to working in conjunction for the Mississippi Environmental Action Network (Based out of Biloxi, MS)and some research for the Health Research Center at Southern University and A&M College under the guidance of the Drs. S.K. Bashar and Dr. Talmage P. Bursh in the areas of Mercurial Exposure to freshwater fish (Rainbow trout) and estuarine/marine fishes (Sheepshead minnow).

On December 2, 1996 Lewis and Shamira were formally inducted in the National Golden Key Honor Society at Southern University's Baton Rouge campus. For both it was quite an honor that they still cherish and thank our Holy Father for today.

On April 4, 1997 Lewis Won second place at the 57th Annual Beta Kappa Chi and Beta Beta Beta Biological Society Awards that were held at SUBR's campus loosing first place to a fellow Graduate School Student at SU. On December 24, 1997 Lewis and Shamira married and began making plans to relocate to the Mid-Atlantic areas of DC-Va-MD for economic reasons. Their wedding was held at the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Labadeville, Louisiana with one of Lewis' cousin on his mother's side performing the ceremony. On June 7, 1998 Lewis and Shamira relocated the Brown Foundation to the Northern Virginia and began setting up shop in Northern Va. Lewis and Shamira were both immediate hired as Environmental Scientists by the federal government and have remained in these positions since June 1998. Presently, they reside in Nokesville, Virginia and the Brown Foundation is headquartered from one of their properties in Prince William County. Today the Brown Foundation is a full service foundation dedicated to writing and researching grants of all kind and also to preserving Afro-American and Latin History across the Southern United States. Drs. Lewis and Shamira Brown presently have eight children with their oldest daughter being born on August 23, 1999 in Alexandria, Virginia. Both are members of the Stafford County NAACP as well as the National NAACP and National Action Network and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Potomac Chapters of the Society of Toxicology and the American Industrial Hygiene Association.

They are both heavy advocates of Civil Rights and are presently serving as Civil Rights Advocates throughout Northern Virginia. Drs. Lewis and Shamira are presently working with several Afro-American Museums and HBCUs across the the southern US and have been large supports to the restoration of Afro-American films and music spanning as far back as 1900 thru 1978. The Brown Foundation also working on an Ecological Restoration project with the aquatic and terrestrial organisms found near the Richmond Bay areas.

On October 26, 2011 Drs. Lewis and Shamira and their oldest daughter, Shamira Anitra Kyrita Brown (age 12 at this time) teamed up with the Charles Beatly Library in Alexandria, Virginia  to sponsor a celebration for Mahalia Jackson's 100th Birthday Celebration. The celebration drew over 200 people and was a smashing success. At present the Brown Foundation of Nokesville, Virginia is seeking to create and Environmental Justice Program and Office in the Greater Prince William County area. If created this program will be the first of its kind and will serve the people of the Greater Prince William County.