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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Uplifiting Images Of Tenderloin CommunityStudents Help Change Perception Of Tough Neighborhood See the Video From ABC7 KGO-TV/DT San Francisco By Carolyn Tyler Mar. 28 – KGO – We want to take you to a school in a tough San Francisco neighborhood that’s helping their students rise above their environment in a very creative way. De [...]

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Moving beyond prison system From the Philadelphia Inquirer By David Parrish Today, everyone is concerned about crime. We all live with the threat of becoming victims. The alarming costs of crime include loss of life, traumatized people, disrupted families, and the enormous financial burden involved in maintaining a police presence and housing an ever-growing prison [...]

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Jamesburg packs revitalization meeting From the Princeton Packet By: Audrey Levine, Special Writer 03/23/2007 The meeting focused on finding ways to better the downtown business district. JAMESBURG — More than 100 residents attended a meeting at the Grace M. Breckwedel School to talk about how to improve the borough’s downtown. The March 15 meeting was [...]

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Olympic ambitions for lots From: The Booster Wicker Park January 24, 2007 By ANITRA ROWE Staff Writer Sean Parnell of Wrigleyville is doing his part to get Chicago ready for its 2016 Olympic bid. Parnell doesn’t have millions for a new temporary stadium. But he does have a plan to turn abandoned Chicago properties into [...]

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Landmark Graduates and Jewelry Business Owners Launch a Clear Concience Project See Coverage on KTVU News Oakland, CA Lori Bonn Designs, a 15-year old jewelry business based in Oakland, CA, founded by Lori Bonn Gallagher and operated by her husband, Bill Gallagher, has launched a long term industry project called Clear Conscience jewelry and accessories [...]

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