By George F on Jul 16, 2008 in Health/Medicine, Landmark Education, Women's Issues, new jersey | 1 Comment
Keisha Sapp and her close friends created Stephanie’s Angels Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day on Saturday, July 12, which had cancer awareness in a variety of locations in Northern New Jersey. Moved into action by the death of her friend Stephanie Wilkins from Ovarian Cancer and her participation in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Sapp […]
By Vincent Cahill on May 19, 2008 in Issues, children, new jersey | 0 Comments
Where Peace Lives, the peace through art and dialogue non-profit organization founded by Jeff Clapp, Donna Clapp and Jeff Rudy out of their participation in Landmark Education’s programs is getting prepared for a unique mural exchange: Between students in Costa Rica and attendees of New Jersey’s largest mosque. Where Peace Lives works with schools and […]
By George F on Mar 10, 2008 in Homelessness, new jersey | 1 Comment
Sometimes it starts with with seeing one injustice in the world. Four years ago, New Jeresey Landmark Forum graduate Gini Mundy asked her family to give anything they were going to spend on her for Christmas to the Pediatric AIDS foundation. Upon receiving a check from Mundy’s family, someone from the foundation remarked that this money […]
By George F on Feb 18, 2008 in Aging, Seniors, new jersey | 0 Comments
Out of taking Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership program, New Jersey native Jackie Hardrick has designed a new program, ‘Adopt-A-Senior,’ in which volunteers spend time with seniors in nursing homes or rehabilitation centers. The program began with a holiday party where seniors got to meet the volunteers on December 20, 2007 at the South Mountain Healthcare and […]
By Vincent Cahill on Feb 9, 2008 in Health/Medicine, Latin America, new jersey | 0 Comments
Called the ‘Fire Lady’ by children in Peru, New Jersey Landmark Forum graduate Jeannette Grauer is a dentist by trade. She has committed herself to creating sustainable healthcare in the Amazon in an environmentally friendly way and in partnership with the local peoples. To this end, she has created annual trips to the Amazon jungle in […]
By George F on Feb 6, 2008 in Arts/Entertainment, Music, new jersey | 0 Comments
When it came time for Landmark Forum graduate Sara Lazarus to choose a project in her Self-Expression and Leadership program, she was not inspired. She thought of doing a benefit for a favorite charity. As a successful theatre director, Sara knew lots of big name Broadway talent and could have asked them to perform. But she realized […]
By George F on Feb 1, 2008 in Health/Medicine, new jersey | 1 Comment
When Princeton, New Jersey Landmark Forum graduate Khurt Williams’ wife was diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few years ago, both of their lives were changed forever. Af first, Willams tried to pretend the symptoms were all in her head. “What a jerk I was!” he recalls. He thought that the stress of running a household by […]
By George F on Jan 31, 2008 in Elementary, children, new jersey | 0 Comments
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 […]
