Building Stronger Communities
Through Education & Action
The Cobra Back Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community education organization offering self-paced, online life skills courses and hands-on STEM programming to individuals, schools, and organizations — at no barrier to access. Founded in Chicago and expanding nationwide, we empower people, strengthen families, and transform lives.
Courses That Change Lives
Structured, certificate-bearing programs — free for all. Start anytime, go at your own pace, from any device.
"Obstacles are things in the way, MOVE THEM!"
— E Dixon, President, Cobra Back Foundation
Inner-City RC
with Police
A STEM/STEAM program that brings police officers and community youth together through the science, engineering, and competition of RC monster truck racing.
What Is ICRCP?
Inner-City Radio-Controlled with Police (ICRCP) is a STEM-based youth mentorship program that uses competitive radio-controlled racing to build stronger relationships between children and police officers from the communities they serve. Through hands-on learning, teamwork, discipline, communication, mentoring, and friendly competition, ICRCP creates a positive environment where trust is built, skills are developed, and young people are encouraged to grow with confidence and purpose.
Community Bridges
Officers remain consistent throughout the 9-week program to establish and maintain personal connections with youth — building trust that extends beyond the track.
STEM/STEAM Learning
Participants learn to calculate travel, speed, distance, time, gravity, and weight. Reverse-engineering trucks teaches electronics, mechanical systems, and applied mathematics.
Competitive Racing
Side-by-side bracket track racing where youth compete for accumulated points. Vehicles are painted to replicate the top 10–20 Monster Jam trucks on the circuit.
The Training & Racing Experience
A 9-week course hosted throughout the year. 15–30 participants at any given time, with Police Officers as active team members every week.
📐 Physics & Math in Action
Youth calculate speed, distance, gravity, and weight in real time — turning the track into a classroom where the lessons are impossible to forget.
🔧 Reverse Engineering
Participants drive, repair, and train with technologically advanced RC trucks. Teams are responsible for maintaining and repairing their assigned vehicles.
🏆 Bracket Racing
Each racing event features youth drivers competing head-to-head. Driver skill, technique, and course-adjustment ability determine the outcome — not luck.
🎨 Truck Sponsorship & Art
RC trucks are painted to replicate real Monster Jam vehicles. Youth learn about each truck's history and the professional drivers behind them.
🎟️ Monster Jam Field Trip
All participants are taken annually to see the actual Monster Trucks race live — connecting their classroom experience to the real world.
👮 Police as Teammates
Officers are not observers — they are active team members. The same officer stays with the same team for all 9 weeks, building real relationships.
A Complete Learning Experience
ICRCP was designed to address the whole person — not just the student on the track.
🧠 Character & Social Skills
- ✦ Teamwork & collaboration
- ✦ Competing with respect & dignity
- ✦ Winning & losing with grace
- ✦ Conflict resolution & mediation
- ✦ Social-emotional therapy
- ✦ Mentoring & discipline
🛡️ Safety & Community
- ✦ Open communication about trauma
- ✦ An outlet to speak about violence
- ✦ Escape from toxic environments
- ✦ Deterrent to becoming offenders or victims
- ✦ Alternative to engaging in mischief
- ✦ Intervention to violence
🚀 Growth & Discovery
- ✦ Physics & mathematics in a fun way
- ✦ Fun alternative to athletics
- ✦ Art through truck design
- ✦ STEM/STEAM education seamlessly embedded
- ✦ Vehicle repair & mechanical skills
- ✦ And much more!
Our Ultimate Goal
Our vision is to secure a dedicated, standalone facility in Chicago or a nearby suburb that serves as the permanent home of Inner-City RCP. This space would bring together youth from across the city and surrounding communities, along with police officers from their respective areas, for competitive STEM-based racing, mentorship, fellowship, and positive community engagement. With your support, we can expand the Training & Racing Experience to its full potential and build a place where learning, trust, and opportunity can grow under one roof.
About the
Cobra Back Foundation
Founded to fill voids. Built to build bridges. Committed to community.
Our Story
The Cobra Back Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit community education organization — Chicago-founded and expanding nationwide — dedicated to filling critical voids in communities through education, mentorship, and hands-on programming for youth, adults, and families. Founded by E. Dixon, a longtime civil servant and community leader, the Foundation was built on a lifelong commitment to service, leadership, and meaningful community engagement. The Foundation advances its mission through programs like Inner-City RCP, a competitive STEM-based radio-controlled racing initiative that connects youth, police officers, mentors, and community members through teamwork, discipline, problem-solving, and positive engagement. Beyond youth programming, the Cobra Back Foundation offers Courses of Life Lessons — self-paced, online courses covering topics such as Financial Literacy, De-Escalation, Home Buying, Phishing & Scam Awareness, Credit Building, Safety in Compliance, and Influence of Groups — all designed to equip individuals, schools, and organizations with real-world knowledge and confidence. Through education, mentorship, community partnerships, and meaningful engagement, the Foundation empowers individuals, strengthens families, promotes safer communities, and builds bridges between law enforcement and the people they serve. Our work is rooted in one belief: when people are informed, supported, and connected, communities rise.
Our Mission
The Cobra Back Foundation exists to build bridges and fill voids by delivering transformative programs and educational opportunities that empower youth, families, and communities through STEM, life skills, awareness, and unity.
Our Vision
We envision a future where communities are stronger, safer, and more connected — where education, opportunity, and partnership create lasting impact from Englewood to neighborhoods across the city and beyond.
Our Programs & Initiatives
Every CBF program is built around one goal: equipping people with the tools they need to thrive.
Life Lessons Courses
Structured, certificate-bearing programs covering Financial Literacy, De-Escalation, Home Buying, Phishing & Scam Awareness, Credit Building, Safety in Compliance, and Influence of Groups — all delivered online and funded through partner organizations and CBF scholarships.
Inner-City RC with Police
A 9-week STEM/STEAM program that brings youth and police officers together through competitive RC monster truck racing, engineering, and mentorship. Currently active in 2 Chicago Police Districts.
Community Partnership
CBF works directly with schools, churches, police districts, and community organizations to bring programs to the people who need them most. Organizations can partner with CBF through our referral program.
"Obstacles are things in the way, MOVE THEM!"
— E Dixon, Founder & President, Cobra Back Foundation
Financial Literacy
Master budgeting, saving, credit, investing, and avoiding scams — 20 mini chapters of practical financial knowledge that will change how you manage money for life.
20 Mini Chapters. Real Knowledge. Real Change.
Each chapter builds on the last — from understanding what money is to investing, credit, and protecting yourself from financial scams.
"Obstacles are things in the way, MOVE THEM!"
— Enrico Dixon, President, Cobra Back Foundation
De-Escalation
Managing Conflict in Everyday Life — 20 mini chapters of practical tools for conflict resolution, emotional regulation, and peaceful communication.
20 Mini Chapters. Real Skills. Real Impact.
Each chapter builds on the last — from understanding conflict and stress to mastering de-escalation in every area of your life.
"Obstacles are things in the way, MOVE THEM!"
— Enrico Dixon, President, Cobra Back Foundation
🛡️ Phishing & Scam Awareness
25 mini chapters of real-world scam protection — for all ages, with a special focus on keeping elderly loved ones safe. Earn a formal Certificate of Completion.
25 Mini Chapters. Real Scams. Real Protection.
Every chapter covers a real scam threat active today — with practical tools to recognize it, avoid it, and protect the people you love.
"The goal is not to make you paranoid. The goal is to make you prepared."
— Cobra Back Foundation
🤝 Safety in Compliance
Learn how to interact with law enforcement to protect yourself and significantly reduce your risk in any encounter. Knowledge and preparation save lives.
20 Mini Chapters. Real Scenarios. Real Safety.
Every chapter covers a real situation — giving you the knowledge, language, and approach to handle any law enforcement encounter safely and confidently.
"Knowledge is the most powerful tool you can carry into any encounter."
— Cobra Back Foundation
🏠 Home Buying
Navigate the home buying process with confidence — from credit preparation and mortgage basics to closing day and building lasting equity.
20 Mini Chapters. Real Process. Real Ownership.
From understanding your credit score and getting pre-approved, to making offers, closing day, and building equity — every step of the home buying journey, covered in full.
"Home ownership is not a privilege for the wealthy. It is a strategy available to anyone willing to prepare for it."
— Cobra Back Foundation
👥 Influence of Groups
Understand the dangerous power of mob and crowd mentality — and why your decision to not show up is the most powerful choice you can make for your community.
26 Mini Chapters. Real Accountability. Real Power.
From understanding deindividuation and crowd psychology to the real cost of spectating — property damage, injury, death, and community damage — this course will change how you see every group situation you encounter.
"Without the crowd, there is no show. You are not a bystander — you are the most important variable."
— Cobra Back Foundation
🚫 Sexual Harassment and Active Bystander Awareness
Recognize, report, and stop sexual harassment — and learn the skills of the Active Bystander. One course, two credentials, zero tolerance.
20 Mini Chapters. Two Credentials. Real Protection.
From the legal definition of sexual harassment and the hostile work environment standard, through the STOP framework, digital harassment, bystander intervention, investigations, retaliation, and culture-building — this course equips you with everything you need.
"Knowing the law is not enough. Knowing what to do in the moment — that is what changes outcomes."
— Cobra Back Foundation
💳 Credit Building
Master the credit system from the ground up — build, protect, and leverage your credit score to unlock home ownership, financial freedom, and generational wealth.
21 Mini Chapters. Real Strategy. Real Results.
From understanding how scores are calculated to velocity banking, authorized users, co-signing risks, HELOCs, and the direct path from strong credit to home ownership — this course covers everything.
"Strong credit is not a destination. It is a discipline that opens every destination worth going to."
— Cobra Back Foundation
Your Community Deserves
More Than the Status Quo.
By partnering with the Cobra Back Foundation, you can bring practical, life-changing Lessons directly to the people you serve. Our Life Lessons courses — Financial Literacy, De-Escalation, Home Buying, Phishing & Scam Awareness, Credit Building, Safety in Compliance, and Influence of Groups — equip youth, adults, families, and community members with real-world knowledge and skills that create lasting change.
Partner with us today and help close the knowledge gap in your community.
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What Would Change If Every Member of Your Organization Was Financially Literate? Scam-Resistant? Equipped to Handle Conflict?
Think about the people in your organization, your congregation, your students, your neighbors, your members. How many of them are one financial mistake away from crisis? How many elderly members are vulnerable to scams they cannot recognize? How many people have never been taught what to do during a traffic stop, or how to build credit, or how to buy a home?
The Cobra Back Foundation was built because the answer to those questions is: too many. We exist to close that gap, with structured courses that deliver real, life-changing lessons to real people. And we have made it our mission that cost will never be a barrier.
Anyone can access our courses for free by registering directly at cobraback.org. For organizations that want to formally enroll and track their members — with a dedicated referral code, a live dashboard, and progress visibility — a suggested contribution helps sustain the platform that makes it all possible. Every certificate is real. Every lesson is built to create lasting impact.
Four Reasons This Decision Will Change Lives
Professional Grade Life Lessons
Our courses are built like premium programs — structured mini chapters, interactive exercises, knowledge quizzes, and formal Certificates of Completion. The only difference? Your members pay nothing. Zero. Ever.
You Become the Catalyst for Change
When you bring these courses to your organization, you are not just offering a program. You are investing in the future of every single person who enrolls. You become the reason they knew better, did better, and lived better.
Track Every Success Story
Your organization can monitor member progress, see course completions in real time, and celebrate every certificate earned. You will watch your community grow stronger — chapter by chapter.
Start With One. Grow Without Limits.
Begin with one approved course and watch your members transform. Then request access to more courses and expand the impact. There is no ceiling on what your organization can achieve through education.
Every Course Is a Door to a Better Future
These are not just courses. They are the lessons most people were never taught — skills that protect your members, strengthen your families, and build more resilient communities.
21 mini chapters · Certificate included
Budgeting, saving, credit, investing, avoiding scams — the financial foundation every person deserves but most never receive.
78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck with no financial safety net.
20 mini chapters · Certificate included
Conflict resolution, emotional regulation, peaceful communication — skills that protect relationships, families, and lives.
Up to 80% of interpersonal conflicts escalate due to a lack of communication skills.
25 mini chapters · Certificate included
From gas station skimmers to AI voice clones — 25 mini chapters of real-world scam protection for every age group, especially your most vulnerable members.
96% of all cyberattacks begin with a phishing attempt. (Verizon DBIR)
20 mini chapters · Certificate included
From credit preparation and mortgage basics to the closing table — the roadmap to homeownership that far too many people never get.
72% of renters want to own a home but feel financially unprepared to start the process.
20 mini chapters · Certificate included
Build it, repair it, maximize it — a step-by-step guide to mastering the credit system that affects every major financial decision in life.
1 in 3 Americans has a credit score below 670, limiting housing, employment & opportunity. (Experian)
20 mini chapters · Certificate included
How to interact with law enforcement to protect yourself and reduce your risk in any encounter. Knowledge that saves lives — and everyone deserves it.
93% of injury-occurring police encounters involve non-compliant subjects. Compliance knowledge saves lives. (NIJ multi-agency study)
20 mini chapters · Certificate included
Understanding the power of crowd mentality and peer pressure — and why one person's decision to walk away can protect an entire community.
75% of juvenile crimes are committed in groups — one decision to walk away changes everything. (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Two Ways In.
Both Lead to Free Courses.
For individuals: Register directly at cobraback.org — courses are always free, no referral code needed.
For organizations: Register your org to get a referral code, enroll your members under your account, and track their progress from your dashboard. A suggested contribution per member helps sustain the platform — but no organization will be turned away.
Suggested organization contribution rates:
No organization will be turned away due to inability to contribute. Reach out and we will make it work.
Your Organization Has the Power
to Change Someone's Life Today.
One referral code. One course. One member who finally has the knowledge they needed. That is how transformation starts — not with a massive budget or a perfect plan, but with a single decision to invest in your people.
Simple pricing. Real impact. Scholarship options available.
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The courses offered by the Cobra Back Foundation are life lessons programs designed to provide perspectives, options, insight, and ideas drawn from real-world experiences. They are not accredited, rated, or regulated by any formal educational institution, public school system, or government body. Completion of any Cobra Back Foundation course does not certify, license, or qualify any participant in any professional or regulated capacity. A certificate of completion is an internal recognition only and holds no standing in any professionally or governmentally regulated field.
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Our course materials are based on the observations, lived experiences, and expertise of industry professionals, community leaders, victims, and participants. There is no single "right way," and the Cobra Back Foundation makes no claim that its materials represent the only valid perspective on any given subject. Our goal is to enlighten — to offer different points of view — not to direct individuals on exactly what to do.
Not Professional Advice
Nothing contained in any Cobra Back Foundation course constitutes financial, legal, medical, psychological, or any other form of licensed professional advice. Users must consult a licensed professional for their specific situations before making any decision related to finances, real estate, legal matters, personal safety, or any other subject area covered in our courses. The Cobra Back Foundation bears no responsibility for any decision or action — good, bad, or otherwise — made by any individual as a result of engaging with our course content. Everyone should consult a professional.
No Guarantee of Outcomes
Results may vary significantly depending on individual circumstances, background, environment, and the actions taken by each person. The Cobra Back Foundation makes no guarantee, expressed or implied, that completing any course will result in any specific financial, personal, professional, or life outcome.
Personal Responsibility
It is the sole responsibility of each individual to exercise their own due diligence, conduct their own independent research, and draw on their own experiences to confirm or challenge any information presented in our courses. The Cobra Back Foundation is not responsible for any perception, interpretation, action, or inaction taken as a result of engaging with our course content, regardless of the outcome.
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Course materials are educational in nature and are not a substitute for contacting emergency services. In any situation involving immediate danger to yourself or others, contact 911 or your local emergency services immediately.
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Individuals under the age of 18 must have the express consent of a parent or guardian to register for and participate in any Cobra Back Foundation program.
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The Cobra Back Foundation reserves the right to modify, update, or remove course content at any time and without prior notice.
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This disclaimer shall be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois.
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By registering, you agree not to hold the Cobra Back Foundation, its founders, staff, contributors, or affiliates liable for any decision, action, or inaction taken as a result of your participation in any course or program.
🧠 Pre-Test: What Do You Already Know?
Before we begin, let's see where your financial knowledge stands today. Answer these 20 questions honestly — there's no grade, just a baseline! You'll see how much you've grown by the end.
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🎓 Your Certificate of Completion
Congratulations on completing the Cobra Back Foundation Financial Literacy Program!
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Final Comprehensive Exam
You've completed all the chapters! Now prove your financial literacy with this comprehensive exam. Score 70% or higher to earn your certificate. You have 2 attempts.
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In consideration for the opportunity to attend and observe the Inner City RCP program as a spectator, I hereby release and hold harmless the Cobra Back Foundation, the City of Chicago, its agents, representatives, and employees from any liability that may arise in connection with my attendance, including but not limited to potential liability from accidents, injuries, or death. I understand that motor vehicle events carry inherent risks and that my attendance is entirely voluntary.
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