Landmark Education Self-expression and Leadership

Julia Hammer’s plans to create a LGBT center in Long Beach, NY, were the subject of a recent Long Island Herald article.

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.

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.

Kim Dunsmore was inspired by Landmark’s SELP to create The Big Book Swap to benefit Pelican Post.

Clayton Elliott aims to improve the lives of at-risk Toronto youth with a bold project that looks to provide sky-diving, scuba diving and white water rafting to kids that ordinarily would never be able to afford such important outdoor experiences.
Elliott has entered the project in the Aviva Community Fund Competition, which is offering up to [...]

Our website has received word of a self-expression and leadership programme (held by Landmark Education) project held at Oxford Brookes University. The project involved an urban design workshop from the perspective of homeless people as clients for urban design.

On September 7th he will complete the third part of a course that, he says, has changed his life forever. And the forthcoming function will represent his commitment to his own community – a key component of the Landmark Education programme he involved himself initially in towards the end of last summer.

In what looks like a new landmark self-expression and leadership program project in the news, The Middletown Journal of Ohio is reporting that Floating Smiles is a new project offering balloon rides to children with cancer.

Joe Amantea’s project in the Landmark SELP program made a difference for senior citizens in Ontario, Canada. The Pickering News Advertiser wrote a story about Amantea’s project, which was called Operation Clean Sweep.

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 [...]

Joanna Faso’s project in Landmark’s SELP program was to bringing yoga to underprivileged citizens of Chicago. Nancy Gerstein wrote a story about the project and the issue Faso is addressing.
Taking Yoga to the People
Chicago’s affluent areas are rife with yoga studios that offer exquisite bodies and stress- free, enlightened spirits. Just the thought of yoga [...]

Yvonne Evans’ project in Landmark’s SELP program involves providing places to live for foster children who turn 18 but who have no place to live. According to Evans, over half of all foster care children who turn 18 have no place to live and a quarter of them eventually end up in prison. Watch the [...]

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. [...]

Books for Africa ships more donated books to the African continent than any other organization. The group partnered with the Invisible Children organization in a book drive on the campus of University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, to collect 500 textbooks to send to Africa. Jasmine Sereda’s project in the Landmark education SELP program involved [...]

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, [...]

Ben Flood’s project in the SELP allowed students from four schools to create an art exhibition which aided children in South African townships. The Anglo-Celt newspaper wrote the story.
Schools do their Art for Africa
Michael Cryan
The four secondary schools in Cavan town took part in an art exhibition in the Town Hall to raise funds for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ryan Mueller’s project in the SELP is literally an adventure: He is embarking on a “grassroots project that is committed to giving back to others through community projects and cultivating cultural exchanges through artistic expression,” according to Mueller’s Extra Mile Adventure website.
On December 1, a team of 18 people will board a biodiesel bus in [...]

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 [...]

Liza Shaw created a powerful project in her Landmark self expression and leadership program earlier this year – an anonymous, online program to allow people the opportunity to make amends; to forgive and ask forgiveness. According to the Amends Project, participants have the opportunity “to heal their pasts, share the powerful impact of forgiveness with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Chris Kriklas of Texas has created a project in his Self-Expression and Leadership Program to make books available to underprivileged youth and the homeless in his community. Titled ‘1000 Books – 1000 Lives’, the project will get the books to people in need through two different charities. Here are excerpts from his website and why [...]

Roxanne Renee was in a severe, treatment resistant major clinical depression for four years until an experimental treatment snapped her out of it. She was told that there was a 90% chance she would experience a relapse. Determined to prevent this, she took active steps to modify her behavior and reduce the chance of relapse. [...]

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 [...]

Chris Gardner wished to find a way to encourage random acts of kindness in the world. To this end, her project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, “Pass It On,” involved creating acknowledgment cards for people to give away to thank others for their acts of generosity. The idea is for that person to [...]

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. [...]

Jessica Kizorek is a Self-Expression and Leadership program leader for Landmark Education and a founding partner of Two Parrot productions, a video production company that specializes in getting out the word about worthy charities around the globe. Kizorek also recently wrote a book, titled Show Me: Marketing with Video on the Internet that helps readers [...]

Ivan Vega lives in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Northwest Chicago. As gentrification continues to expand into the Puerto Rican part of the neighborhood, it has become more difficult for residents and businesses to stay connected to their heritage. Out of doing Landmark Education’s Self-Expression program, Vega decided to start a project and contribute to [...]

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 [...]

You might find it suprising to discover that the famously afluent Brentwood Area of Los Angeles is home to a non-profit that provides vital services to Homeless People. There are estimated to be as many as 3 million homeless people in the United States. The living conditions that most homeless people find themselves in make [...]

Lisa Hagerman of Sarasota, Florida, rallied her community together to complete one couple’s dream of home ownership. Working with Habitat for Humanity, who built the home of Harry Gonzalez and Wanda Torres, Hagerman helped the couple furnish their new home through the help of various community members and business associates. Hagerman’s work was her project [...]

My project was to build a ‘house of hope’ for orphans of AIDS victims in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
There are many children who have lost their parents through HIV/AIDS or violence in the country, KwaZulu-Natal having the highest level of 40 % HIV in the country. Children live in crumbling mud huts [...]