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Robles Helps Kids get their Sport on »

The project created by Okashi Robles when she took her Landmark SELP program brought a variety of sports to West Seattle middle schoolers through a unique after school program. The Seattle Times wrote a story about Robles’ project.
Middle-School students get their sport on at the southwest community center
Get Your Sport On is a first-of-its-kind, after-school [...]

Kposowa Blog Shows Bumpe Rebuilding »

The Kposowa Foundation, co-founded by Landmark Education graduate Sarah Culberson out of her commitment to people of the town of Bumpe and the country of Sierra Leone has launched its own blog, giving updates on the progress of the work being done there to rebuild the town and introducing visitors to the people of Bumpe.
When [...]

David Cunningham on Dealing Powerfully with Relatives over the Holidays, Part 1 »

we can have all the dinners, we can have all the decorations, but really what’s at the heart of a great holiday, no matter how great the food was, how beautiful the decorations were, what makes or breaks a holiday is the relationships we have with people and whether we enjoy the people or not.

Hooks Shows Students Mother Wilkerson’s Farm »

Sunherald.com, a news website for the Biloxi-Gulfport and Southern Mississipi area, recently took note of a book published by Earnest Hooks Jr., "Let's Go See Mother Wilkerson's Farm: Adventures in Learning Excellence," that features the art of Lizzie Wilkerson and educates children and adults on early 20th century farming culture. The article also makes note [...]

Culberson, Long Lost Princess, Spearheads Home Town Rebuilding »

Sarah Culberson’s story is known to many viewers of Good Morning America and CNN–How she had grown up adopted in West Virginia, used Landmark Education’s Landmark Forum program to get up the courage to look for her birth father (her birth mother had died years earlier), and discovering that she was in fact a long [...]

Salmons Sources Supplies for Star Students »

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 [...]

Martinis for Music: Chicagoans Party to Save Program »

Joanna Burgraf has created a project out of Landmark’s Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program that is raising substantial sums of money towards saving the music program at the Armor Elementary School in the south side of Chicago.
Named S.O.S., or Save Our Song, the initial idea for the project came from a partnership between Burgraf’s employer, [...]

Give me the Words Aids Guatemalans »

Mars Tanumihardja used his participation in Landmark Education's Self-Expression and Leadership program to create a benefit concert to raise funds for some of the poorest people in central America. Tanumihardja arranged for the concert to be held at the Newman Center at the University of Washington, where he is the head of the music ministry. [...]