CDTB was originally founded by a group of educators and community leaders as a response to the State of Florida’s new requirement that public schools institute programs aimed at character development in all grade levels. The organization’s goal was to address what it felt to be the greatest challenge facing the public school system in developing programs that would satisfy the state requirement—the lack of any shared vision of exactly what constitutes good character or, even more critical, the absence of any commonly accepted view about what might constitute the foundational source for defining how good character could be attained. CDTB responded with classes, workshops, and its own curricula, all based on the assumption that world religions through the ages have provided the single best means by which the concept of morality has been defined and promulgated.

Though our original intent was to address these local concerns, interest in our program has expanded. Consequently, we are now providing programs and fielding questions of interest on the state, national, and most recently, international level.