Founder and CEO of Powerful Women International (PWI), Valeri Bocage, tells her story of losing everything in Katrina to inspire women not to worry about things, but enjoy life.
Weathering the Storm
From: The Bay Area Business Woman
By: Julia Dodge
Valeri Bocage was visiting a friend in Bay St. Louis, Miss. — 40 minutes away from her hometown […]

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Quilt communicates–One Peace at a Time
From: Sun Times News Group
December 4, 2006
By FELICIA DECHTER Staff Writer
The seventh-grade class from Nettelhorst School was as diverse and patchwork as the peace quilts its students were meticulously creating colorful, cotton squares for.The kids were participating in the humanitarian project, One Peace at a Time, which will ship bright […]

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In 2002 Penny Beatty had an idea to create a resource fair that specifically addressed the needs and interests of women. 5 years and 25 events later, this project is still going strong.
From: Suburban Woman North Shore
The spirit of community was a key factor for many of us who
decided to be part of the […]

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Special Spectators was a project created in 2002 by Blake Rockwell while he was a participant in the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program. Blake is a huge sports fan and got the idea to give seriously ill children a chance to attend College Sporting Events. In the 5 years since the project began, Special […]

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Group offering help to mothers
Volunteers assist by tackling tasks
From: Sun Sentinal South Florida
By Laura Burdick-Sherman
Mothers need as much help they can get as far as Joelle Smith is concerned.
And that’s her vision for a newly created organization, Mothers For Mothers.
“Every mother needs assistance with watching their kids; either they can’t afford it or don’t know […]

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Kids Hit the Books to Build A Kitchen
From WCAV- Alexandria Virginia
Elementary school students at Greer and Stony Point are hitting the books to help poor students in rural Mexico build a kitchen at their school.

The second graders have read 2,000 books. They hope people and businesses will donate $5 for each book read. They want […]

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Really big chill: Polar Plunge’s top fund-raiser has warm heart
From: the Chicago Sun-Times
by Rummana Hussain
On Sunday morning, Jennifer Kramer will throw on a Dopey costume and run into the frigid waters of Lake Michigan.
Some of her girlfriends, dressed as the remaining Seven Dwarfs, will follow close behind.
“We tried to recruit a male Snow White but […]

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The Great Squash Cook Off
From: The Park Slope Courier
By: Mathew Moll
While millions around the country are focused on a game to decide football supremacy, the local squash world will be lining its stomachs, preparing to crown its own champion.
Twenty contestants are slated to compete in The Great Squash Cook-Off, a community-based “Iron Chef” inspired contest, […]

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Using Improvisational Comedy to Bring Laughter and Light Heartedness Back Into the Lives of Survivors of Sexual Assault.

Andrea Howe used the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership Program to create an organizations called “Living Out Loud”. A survivor of sexual assault herself, Andrea had come a long way in her healing proccess and wanted to […]

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Limbs For Life

From 9NEWS NOW Washington D.C.
If there was ever a pitch for a cause, Jessica Rogers knows how to hit it.
“Some kids that don’t have legs and arms, they’re gonna get money for them to get fake legs and arms.”
“How important is that?” asks 9NEWS NOW reporter Emily Schmidt.
“That’s really important because you want […]

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