Archive for January, 2008

Jersey Grad Celebrates MLK Day with ‘Bag of Dreams’ for Newark Teens »

When Landmark Education graduate Cinda Gaskin grew up in Harlen, there wasn’t a lot of dreaming. “If you were lucky you got a job and got a roof over your head,” she says. When Cinda started Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership program last fall, Martin Luther King Day was a few months away. She realized she wanted to have King’s […]

Visionary Landmark Education Graduate Ends Vacation; Builds Schools in Kenya »

It’s a hard to think of a person who embodies the boldness of unstoppability of Landmark Education graduates more than Paul Boutin. In December of 2006, he went to Kenya for a 10-day safari. He didn’t make it through the first day. On that first morning, he noticed an unfinished building and asked about it. […]

Landmark Education Graduates Celebrate the True Spirit of Thanksgiving with Homeless Children and their Families »

Committed to impacting the lives of the over 12,000 homeless children attending schools in Maricopa County, Arizona in direct, positive and meaningful ways, the Real Gift Foundation is a volunteer-based organization committed to impacting the lives of the over 12,000 homeless children attending schools in Phoenix area.

The mission and purpose of the Real Gift Foundation […]

Where Peace Lives: Landmark Education Graduates Create Global Peace Group Where Students Cause Peace Through Art »

 
The origins of Where Peace Lives, an incredible new organization for peace in the world, lie in friendship. New Jersey natives Jeff Rudy and Jeff and Donna Clapp completed Landmark Education’s curriculum for living and then assisted as Introduction Leaders together over the last decade, during which time they became fast friends. Their involvement with Landmark Education […]

Landmark Forum Graduate Project: Bringing Green Groups Together »

people who knew Ariane Delafosse before she took the Landmark Forum last year would tell you that she would be the last person to do any kind of community project. “I was a complete introvert,” she recalls. “I had no interest in my community at all.”
In the Landmark Advanced Course, she decided that she wanted […]

Landmark Education Graduate Creates New Economic Opportunities for Rural Villagers in Karnataka »

G.V. Bhat lives in Sirsi, India, a small town with a problem common to rural India: no jobs, or more accurately, no middle class white collar jobs. This problem causes educated youth to leave the villages they grew up in as soon as they are of working age, overpopulating the cities and emptying rural communities. Bhat took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression […]

Ojai Landmark Education Graduate Sets Hearts Afire with Art by the Homeless »

Bob Ballard is an Ojai, California graduate of the Landmark Forum who has used his participation in Landmark Education’s programs to discover and cultivate his commitment to make a difference with homeless people in unique ways, such as by giving them an outlet for artistic expression. Several years ago, he realized that he was uncomfortable around homeless […]

Landmark Education Graduates Discover Their Hearts in the Amazon; Make a Difference with Pachamama Alliance »

Be careful what you wish for, says Landmark Graduate David Usner. It might come true. By any measure, David and his wife Pat were extremely successful people. They lived in a huge, beautiful house in Philadelphia where Pat was vice president of a prominent hospital. Eventually, she quit this job and became extremely successful as […]