Archive for the 'Business and Commerce' Category
Career Awareness Event Benefits Women
0 Comments Published by DJacoby March 3rd, 2010 in Business and Commerce.Mary Ellen Keller’s Landmark SELP project was a career awareness day for women who have been out of the workforce for quite a while.
New Year New You
0 Comments Published by DJacoby January 22nd, 2010 in Business and Commerce, Humanitarian.Susan Trost’s project helped 38 Denver women suffering through difficulties with an event that provided a wide range of services. Created in Landmark SELP.
Computers for Kids
1 Comment Published by DJacoby January 22nd, 2009 in Business and Commerce, Children.Peter Landau of Chicago has created a project in the Self Expression and Leadership Program to get computers and computer equipment to children in need. Landau reports on what the organization is creating:
I’d like to share with you an exciting new organization that I am starting with a group of fellow technology professionals. It is [...]
Community Garage Sale Reinvented and Launched Anew
0 Comments Published by DJacoby January 21st, 2009 in Business and Commerce, Fund Raising.Linda Artac leads Landmark’s Self Expression and Leadership Program in Arizona, and she recently created a project to jumpstart and expand her local community garage sale. She wrote and article in the Lakes Log about the event and about how to run a success garage sale.
Lakes Nov. 8 Garage Sale fundraiser will be ‘going green’
Trying [...]
Del Toro Takes on Patterson Garbage
0 Comments Published by DJacoby January 6th, 2009 in Business and Commerce, Environment, Humanitarian.When garbage began to pile up in the commercial district of Patterson, New Jersey, Francisco Del Toro took action, leading a cleanup campaign as his project in the Self Expression and Leadership Program he took with Landmark Education. The Latino News wrote a story about the campaign.
Passaic Business Owners Clean Their Block
by Juan Esteban Villegas
Business [...]
Making a Difference with Loan Problems
0 Comments Published by macaniff October 2nd, 2008 in Business and Commerce.Licensed real estate broker Jim Chubb of San Jose, California, took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program this spring, and in the course he saw he wanted to make a difference with people who had loan problems. He decided to take on ways to help, including the planning of a website designed to answer questions. [...]
Lewis Creates Chicago Technology Summit
0 Comments Published by Tom September 18th, 2008 in Business and Commerce.Chicagoan Ed Lewis took on bringing a cutting edge technology summit to fruition as his project in the Landmark Education self expression and leadership program.
The Tech Insiders Summit was a forum to explore in depth what’s working and not working in the Chicago Tech start-up community. The panel discussions are slated to be moderated by [...]
Mehotra Makes Science Fun for Kids
0 Comments Published by Julia Taylor September 16th, 2008 in Business and Commerce, Children.Lopa Mehotra’s TestToob project is gaining acclaim from the media. This project, which began in the Self Expression and Leadership Program, creates a website for youngsters to share science videos and experiments. Here’s a piece of an article from the Lane Report, Kentucky’s leading business publication. The original story can be found here.
Lopa Mehrotra is [...]
Busting out against Breast Cancer
0 Comments Published by Toby August 25th, 2008 in Business and Commerce, Fund Raising, Health and Wellness.Caralea Arnold designed a novel way of fighting breast cancer as her project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, creating Bust Out! Eating Awareness Day among businesses in her Philadelphia community. So far 14 restaurants and cafes have signed on to participate in the event, which took place August 1. The eateries will sell [...]
Jamaica Gleaner Writes about Step Up For Life
0 Comments Published by Tom July 23rd, 2008 in Entreprenureship, Health and Wellness, Sport and Leisure.MaryKay Mullally, a Jamaican born woman whose Self-Expression and Leadership Program of training women to run marathons and half-marathons led her to form the “Step Up For Life” organization, was recently interviewed by the Jamaica Gleaner, a leading Jamaican newspaper. Mullally talked about being honored by ABC News and Prevention Magazine as one of five [...]
Chicagoan Takes on Abandoned Lots
0 Comments Published by Julia Taylor June 17th, 2008 in Business and Commerce, Humanitarian.Chicago resident Sean Parnell is a kind of local celebrity–He is well known for his Chicago Bar Project, a website that reviews practically every notable bar in Chicago. Perhaps less well known is Parnell’s work to combat urban blight. While taking the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership class, Parnell decided to take on the problem of abandoned buildings and [...]
Stepping Into Your Shoes
0 Comments Published by Allison Wright May 8th, 2008 in Business and Commerce, Children.When Claudia Beltran tutored for the East Village Youth Program (EVYP) a couple of years ago, she was impressed by the ambition of the young people she worked with. The EVYP provides tutoring and mentoring youths in Chicago, with the mission of encourage and prepare primarily low-income, Latino youth for a college education. She worked [...]
When Effie Brunson took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program last year, she became inspired to both make solar power more widely available in her home state of Texas, and help low-income families reduce their energy costs. She took on both of these goals with the creation of Rays of Hope, which works with other [...]
Taking Care of the Earth: One Woman’s Project
0 Comments Published by Julia Taylor March 25th, 2008 in Business and Commerce.My name is Kathy Peterson. Through taking Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Program, I started a grass roots project in December 2007. The project is at my church, to plant seeds of “eco-justice”, that is, taking care of our earth, and describe here that project about the environment.
The first goal of the project was to [...]