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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Landmark Education Graduate Ben Zander, best selling business author and conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Symphany was interviewed on Canadian Televsion. He is show leading a seminar for musicians in Toronto Canada and speaking about leadership, transformation, Landmark Education and The Landmark Forum. http://landmarkeducationnews.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

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Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Project called G.O.P.A.T. (Giving Old People A Thrill) New Zealand Self Expression and Leadership Program Participant Max Vodane created a project that brought the Ulysses Motor Bike Club together with the St. Andrews Retirement Community. Bike Club Members took Senior Citizens from St. Andrews for rides on motorcycles. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL6INKv6p1s[/youtube]

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Everyone at some point has been approached by a smiling kid selling candy bars to raise money for their school or sports team. Most people find these kids and the opportunity to support their endeavors difficult to resist. In fact we gladly buy candy bars that we don’t really want just to support the cause. [...]

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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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240,000 Miles, $1,000 in Shots, Two Feet From Instant Death Jessica and Bill Kizorek are not strangers to international travel. They have been to a combined total of 200 countries, including one journey involving all seven continents. By the beginning of 2007 the pair had committed to a unique kind of travel mission—giving away, in [...]

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Bringing joy to the world … From the The Star Canterbury, New Zealand 14.03.2007 By AMANDA LEGGE Les and Bridgette Richards no longer have concerns about an empty future without children. The Bromley couple, who had been trying to conceive since they married in 1999, will not only have their own child next month – [...]

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EarthTimes.org SAN FRANCISCO, Landmark Education is offering its flagship program, The Landmark Forum, in the Korean language for the first time on March 23, 24, 25, and 27 in Seoul, South Korea. With the launch of The Landmark Forum in South Korea, Landmark Education has expanded its operations to 25 countries. Over the years, Seoul, [...]

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Reprinted from RecordBreeze.com Glo. Twp. students give books ‘from the heart’ Books recently took on a different meaning for students at Loring-Flemming Elementary School in Gloucester Township. The school launched its first “Books from the Heart” this year. The project asked students to bring in a book for needy children in Camden. “Books from the [...]

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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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How the Other Half Lives: “Walk a Mile” dares welfare policymakers and welfare recipients to swap lives How’s this for a devastatingly simple solution to an age-old social problem? While Natasha Grossman was studying social work and interning at a welfare-reform lobbying organization in Washington state, she saw first-hand the cultural gap that existed between [...]

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Learning center for cancer patients’ children teaches new frames of reference Seattle Times March 1, 2007 By Alan Berner Staff Photographer Through My Eyes, Photography taught to kids at Hutch Cancer Research Center Hutch School A camera company used to advertise, “You push the button, we do the rest” — as if good photography comes [...]

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