By George F on Oct 17, 2008 in India, Landmark Education, children | 0 Comments
Sanjuktha Mukund of Bangalore, India, recently won a citizen journalism contest sponsored by Citizen Matters, a Bangalore focused publication that spotlights the contributions and activities of individual citizens. Mukund’s essay discussed two different projects that he undertook in Landmark Education’s SELP program. The essay appears below:
August 29, 2008
I celebrated this Independence Day with a bang. […]
By George F on Oct 14, 2008 in Arts/Entertainment, Books, Film, Landmark Education, Los Angeles | 0 Comments
Noted director, actor and writer Troy Byer was recently interviewed by Los Angeles Wave about a variety of subjects, including getting away from Hollywood, her new career as a writer, her study of ontology, making a difference with people and how the Landmark Forum helped her establish a powerful relationship with her ex-husband. Landmark Education […]
By Vincent Cahill on Oct 10, 2008 in Homelessness, california | 1 Comment
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 […]
By Vincent Cahill on Oct 8, 2008 in United States, children | 0 Comments
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. […]
By George F on Oct 6, 2008 in san francisco | 0 Comments
In today’s challenging and uncertain times, financial knowledge and literacy is a key skill for most adults. Peter Johnson took Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program in San Jose this summer, and out of it created the Financial Literacy Project, which is designed to bring financial professionals and consumers together in community bookstores. Consumers will have […]
By George F on Oct 4, 2008 in Entreprenureship, new jersey | 0 Comments
New Jersey businessman Jack Licata has an invention that he’s been thinking about for 20 years: ‘Bag Ups’, a unique system by which one biodegradable garbage bag attaches to another, meaning that as soon as one bag is removed from a trash can, the next one pops instantly in to place. Now his invention has […]
By George F on Oct 1, 2008 in Elementary, Homelessness, Texas, children | 0 Comments
When Leila Salmons of Houston created the “Supplies for Star Students” project in her Landmark Self-Expression and Leadership Program, her intention wasn’t to collect school supplies for students with good grades. Rather, she and a team of professionals are making sure that personal living supplies - items such as socks and underpants as well as […]
By George F on Sep 29, 2008 in Gulf Coast, NewYork | 0 Comments
Love Knows No Bounds, the organization created by Catherine Martinez in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as her project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, continues to spearhead the rebuilding of the 7th ward of New Orleans. The organization worked tirelessly towards a sister city partnership between New Orleans and Ithaca, New York, where […]
