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Hearts of Fire Rolls through California »

Hearts of Fire, the project Bob Ballard created in Landmark Education's Power and Contribution course as a way of connecting homeless people to art and music, is flourishing. In July, the group received 5013C nonprofit status from the IRS. This summe, Hearts Afire has toured Southern California, visiting homeless shelters and putting on art and [...]

TestToob Gives Kids Science Opening »

Out of her project that she created in Landmark's Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Lopa Mehrotra embarked on an innovative quest to allow young people to collaborate and experiment together in science. The idea is TestToob, a website that gives young people the tools to post videos and view and rate videos of other young people. [...]

Key Rings for Change »

Bryan Davis used Landmark’s Self Expression and Leadership Program to partner with his friend AJ Bontempo to create a novel key ring: The ChangeRing. Inspired by Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and its message of change, the key ring has a delta symbol, the Greek symbol for change at its heart that is also used in [...]

Sing Out Against Hunger, Created Six Years Ago, More Relevant than ever »

Jane Bitto formed "Sing Out Against Hunger" six years ago as a music festival to raise money and food for the hungry of the East Bay of Rhode Island. Formed in her Self-Expression and Leadership Program that she took with Landmark Education, the festival has raised over $40,000 and many trucks full of food for [...]

Young People Create Day with Parents »

One of the most common problem parents face today is finding the time and energy to spend quality time with their kids. Lynne Richardson could empathize, being a parent who struggled to make time for her children and who felt guilty when she didn’t think she did enough. In the Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Richardson [...]

Lost Princess Discovers her Past and Helps Rebuild Sierra Leone »

In the Landmark Forum, aspiring Los Angeles Actor Sarah Culberson realized that she was terrified to find her biological father. Culberson was adopted and grew up in West Virginia, and in the Landmark Forum she decided that she would find him. The story of what happened next was told on CNN, and written about in [...]

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Pedal for Pads »

Jeanne Thompson resolved to use her Self-Expression and Leadership program to raise money for an organization that reconnects homeless people to their community. In so doing, she created the Pedal for Pads Bikeathon and raised about $10,000 for an extremely worthy organization. The Daily Herald of Suburban Chicago wrote a story about the July 12 [...]