Landmark Education Self-expression and Leadership

A fundraiser for the Devon Air Ambulance Trust took place this February at the Globe Inn, in Newtown, with about 100 people attending. The event was created by Martin Sanders, for whom it was his project in Landmark Education’s self-expression and leadership programme.
Sanders says that £447 has been raised so far as a result of [...]

Kelly Maria’s project in the Landmark SELP program was to create Hearts at Home, to bring hand sewn blankets to new foster kids.

Angela Eren’s recent fundraiser (her project in the selp program) raised money for Lime-Aid, an organization that aids Haitian orphans.

An event at the Rain Bar & Grill in Abbotsford raised money for the Salvation Army Haiti Relief fund.

Rich Jochum raised over $8,000 for facilities that treat homeless men recovering from alcoholism.

Bob Talan has put together huge teams of climbers/fundraisers for Chicago’s acclaimed Hustle up the Hancock to fight lung disease (originall a Landmark selp project).

A drum circle is Craig Evans’ landmark selp project.

Family fun day, a landmark education selp project.

A fundraising walk across the most famous bridges in London is benefiting the largest children’s hospital in Hungary.

Susana Garcia Cervero took fun to a new level when she created a fundraising event to benefit Medical Aid for Palestinians (www.map-uk.org). Cervero, who created the project in Landmark Education’s SELP, created the project to benefit those with an urgent need and bring an extremely entertaining event to the community at the same time.

In her Landmark Self-Expression and Leadership Program earlier this year, New Yorker Sue Sena put on a volunteer expo event through SWiSH – a gay rights group that she had founded – the acronym stands for Straight Women in Support of Homos.

Dr. Montgomery Douglas took on an ambitious project in his Self-Expression and Leadership Program: the rebuilding of the Portsmouth Roman Catholic Church in the Domincan Republic which was destroyed by an earthquake in 2004.

The Bucks County Courier Times of Pennsylvania recently published a story about the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program of Vicki LaRosa, whichy  raised money for the Dress for Success Organization.
Helping women dress for success
by Kate Fratti
The hardest part of the work day, in my estimation, is getting dressed.
What to wear? What to wear?
And the [...]

Tessa Mills created a fundraising event to raise £1,000 for new classrooms at a Himalayan school. The event, which was her project in the self expression and leadership programme, actually raised £1,500 and the attention of the London Informer.

The Michigan newspaper Hometown Life featured James Labadie’s Self Expression and Leadership program in a recent article. Labadie’s project involves raising money for no-kill animal shelters, using Texas-Hold em’ poker and other events and a raffle at a day long extravaganza on Saturday, April 25. Details are in the article below.
Play poker, walk, bowl to [...]

Over £1,000 were raised for cancer research at a U.K. dance event, thanks to the SELP project of Monne Whyte-Macpheson. The following article appeared in The Express newspaper on February 13th.
Cha-cha-cha raises cancer cash
Breakfast with a kick was the order of the day in Windsor at the weekend.
New Windsor Community Association came alive [...]

Todd Chisholm wasn’t the first resident of Uxbridge, Ontario to propose a dog park in his town, but he may be the first to succeed in making it happen. The park, his project in the SELP program, is on its way to becoming a reality thanks to his willingness to raise funds and do whatever [...]

Mary McKee has a strong commitment to animals – She runs her own pet grooming center. As her SELP project, McKee spearheaded a fundraiser for animal rescue groups in her home city of St. Louis, partnering with ROAR (Resources for Org. Animal Rescue). The event took place November 16 at Dressel’s pub in St. Louis.
A [...]

Mike Arazyan’s SELP project involved making a difference for sick children, but just as important to him, it has his children and their friends learning the value of making a difference for others. The family took on doing raking, snow shoveling and other chores to raise money for the Hospital for Sick Kids in Canada. [...]

Jessica Dragan of California has taken on the opening of the What a Life Animal Shelter which will be opening in February. The first fundraiser to raise funds for the shelter took place on November 15 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, and featured a silent auction, prizes, live music, viewing of horse races and more, [...]

An all day Yoga training/day fundraiser raised money for the cancer assistance program as a result of Vanessa Pazzi’s Self-expression and leadership programme project. The following documentary video gives a picture of the event, which took place January 3 for over 100 people at the Hamilton Convention Centre in Canada.

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 [...]

Tricia Tarantino of South Florida is a third grade teacher at the Sabal Palm elementary school. For her project in the SELP program, Tarantino led her class to raise money for the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. The Collier County Public School district wrote about the event.
Sabal Palm Elementary Operation Inspiration Update
Recently we told you about [...]

Allison Osborn’s Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program project aimed to aid women in the Congo, many of whom have been the rargets of violence during Congo’s long running civil war. To do this, Osborn raised money for City of Joy, a refugee center that provides shelter and services to these women. The fundraiser took [...]

Lisa Stachler’s project in the Landmark Education SELP program was a benefit to raise money for college scholarships for those afflicted with cerebral palsy. The Benefit, named “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” took place on Sunday, November 2 at Cafe Live in Philadelphia, and featured top-end entertainment, as well as a mention in Philadelphia Weekly.
Oh [...]

For her project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, Joanne Kelly created a fundraiser event for the Northern Ireland Chilren’s Hospice. The event took place on Sunday, November 30 at the Ballysillan Leisure Centre. The event was a “Bounce-Athon” for children, which goes from 1:30-2:3-pm for 8-13 year olds and 2:30-3:30pm for 5 [...]

As a project in the Landmark Education SELP Program, Hamilton Simons-Jones took on having a fundraiser dinner for the Gulfsouth Youth Action Fund be an extraordinary event. Based in New Orleans, the GYAF is a youth-led philanthropy initiative developed to empower them to make strategic investments in their peers and their community. Hamilton’s work [...]

For his project in Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Program, Eric Riley held a gala, black tie fundraiser for Betty’s Haven, a prominent women’s shelter located in Houston. The event, which he named the ‘Essimage Beauty Celebration’ also featured some of the women from the shelter as guests of honors. The details come from [...]

Caroline Glasner’s project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Programme (offered by Landmark Education) is clearly a first: She put on a public walk and fundraiser with people wearing their underwear on the outside to raise underwear, money and attention for destitute asylum seekers in the U.K. Glasner’s walk on October 12 raised over £5,000 [...]

Chicago resident Allison Lerner is holding a fundraiser on Wednesday, October 29 for the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s Women Cancer Programs as an outgrowth of her project that she initiated in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program. Held during and in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Lerner is naming the event HAIRoic MEASURES – Those [...]

In July, Sue Lee-Lows created a parachute jump fundraising project (in her Landmark Education SELP programme) to benefit brain cancer research through the Samantha Dickinson Brain Tumor Trust (SDBTT), in honour of her friend Penny who suffered from brain cancer (see previous story).
Sadly, Penny died shortly before the parachute jump event in July. Lee-Lows has [...]

When Dave Benjamin received an email from a friend requesting a donation for the “Reaching Out for Rob” traumatic brain injury (TBI) recovery fundraiser, he knew he wanted to help in a larger capacity because he had witnessed the impact that TBI can have on a person’s life. Soon it became his May 2008 Self-Expression [...]

The Vindicator, a leading newspaper of Youngstown, OH, recently wrote about the Self-Expression and Leadership progam project of Keith Coleman, who teamed up with his brother Kevin to form a worthy scholarship fund.
YOUNGSTOWN — A runathon has been scheduled from 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Wick Park as an inaugural fundraiser for the Otis Christian [...]

As her project in the Self expression and leadership program offered by Landmark Education, Illinois resident Ann Pellegrini helped put together a fundraiser for the Northern Illinois Food Bank, held in Cantigny Park, IL. The event, held in partnership with Oberweis Dairy and titled the 1st Annual Art of Giving, took place on Thursday, September [...]

Sing Out Against Hunger, the Musical fundraiser for the hungry in Rhode Island formed by Jane Bitto in her Self-Expression and Leadership program back in 2003, is still going strong as an annual fundraiser/foodraiser. This year’s festival will be held on September 7th to 9th. The Providence Journal mentioned the event:
Singing Out Against Hunger: Evelyn’s [...]

Gwyn Jones enjoys both wine and making a difference. When he took Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, having an organic wine tasting that also served as a fundraiser for a good cause was a natural choice for his project. The event was held at the Adam and Eve Cafe in Bournemouth, which also promoted the [...]

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 [...]

LeeAnn Mason of Hunter Village Utah wants to make the park that has been promised to the community a reality. In Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, she has been working towards this goal, which was written about by the West Valley Journal.
Residents Raising Funds to Make Community Park a Reality
by Kimberly Martinez
Homeowners at [...]

 
Various television stations and newspapers have recently covered the story the the Self-Expression and Leadership Program project of Charlene Westgate. Westgate, who tragically lost her son to suicide two years ago, created a series of events in the form of tea parties to raise awareness about teen suicide and raise money as well. Two stories [...]

The De Soto, Kansas, Multi-Service Center food pantry, which feeds an average of 50 needy families a month, got aid from an unexpected source when its supplies were running low this summer. Jeremy Pryor created a “pancake feed” event for his project in the self-expression and leadership program to raise money for the needed food. [...]

Kansas City resident Candace Vanice began her passion for helping victims of domestic violence by volunteering at a local shelter, teaching a physical fitness class. In so doing see saw first hand how much was still needed to support these victims.
When she took Landmark Education’s Self Expression & Leadership Program, she used her project as [...]

Inspired by a friend with an inoperable brain tumor Sue Lees-Low is using her Self-Expression and Leadership Programme to raise money for brain cancer research using a novel fundraising method–Parachute Jumping. Sue describes her project:
My project is to organise parachute jumps for 10 or more people and raise over £10,000 for the Samantha Dickson Brain [...]

In 2004, Kevin Burch gave 1,000 pounds to Pump Aid, a charity that works with local residents in Africa to install pumps to produce clean water where it would otherwise not be available. He forgot about the donation until, much later, a personal, hand written letter came from a child in the village giving thanks. [...]

Third grade teacher Tracey Mott decided to make her Landmark Education Self-Expression project be something that would directly impact her students, as well as the lives of students around the world. She decided to bring the “Pennies for Peace” program to the Hickory Grove Elementary School where she works.
Pennies for Peace is a program that [...]

A Landmark Education Self-Expression and Leadership program project that took place recently in the UK featured a dance fundraiser for both cancer research and impoverished children in Peru. Richard Hoffman combined a passion for dance with a passion for making a difference in the lives of those less fortunate with a charity dance held on [...]