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Seated Senior Tap Dancers »

Ruth Pillet put together a team of senior tap dancers as part of a project started in a Landmark Education course.

Fundraiser Helps Women Dress for Success »

Vicki LaRosa of Pennsylvania is holding a fundraiser for the Dress for Success Program on May 1 in Tullytown. The fundraiser is LaRosa’s project in her Landmark Education SELP program. Dress for Success is a volunteer driven organization that helps provide professional outfits for low income professional women. LaRosa’s project was recently the subject of an [...]

Knitting for Newborns Warms Babies, Brings Community Together »

The Colonial newspaper of Montgomery county and Bucks county Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia) recently wrote a profile on Landmark Education graduate Elgar Richards. In his Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Richards has created "Knitting for Newborns", a team of people who are knitting clothes for the winter months to be given away to newborns at Norristown's Montgomery [...]

Monti’s Pretzels a Hit in Maryland, Guyana »

Megan Monti got two big things out of taking the Landmark Forum and other Landmark Education programs: She got committed to making her dream of owning her own business a reality, and she got committed to using that business to make a difference in the world. Her fresh approach to her new retail pretzel business [...]

Food Sales Aid Breast Cancer Survivors »

Caralea Arnold works as a waitress in Philadelphia. When she participated in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program offered by Landmark Education, she decided her project in that program would be to raise money in the fight against breast cancer. As a waitress, she found a unique way to raise money inside the food industry that [...]

Sports Radio Pundit Gets 2nd Chance »

Acclaimed Philadelphia sports radio personality Mike Missanelli, known to listeners as “Mikey Miss”, has transformed from an angry radio host to a thoughtful, even mellow pundit. Philadelphia Magazine attributes some of this change to Missanelli taking the Landmark Forum. Excerpts of the magazine article appear below.

The Misadventures of Mikey Miss
Dumped by WIP for being a [...]

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 [...]

Students Write Cards to Encourage Troops in a Community Project Created by Laura Newcomb »

Laura Newcomb cares deeply about the troops serving in Iraq and wanted her Self Expression and Leadership Project to contribute to them.
Woman sends encouraging words to troops
 
By ED MOORHOUSE
Burlington Country Times
SHAMONG — Laura Newcomb said she wanted her community to be a model of encouragement for the military men and women serving overseas. [...]