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Beauty Flowers in New Rochelle, Thanks to Local Landmark Education Graduate »

Landmark Education graduate Leonard Pouder believes that he is by nature a selfish person, the last one who would jump into a community project. However, during his Self-Expression and Leadership program last year, he began to get inspired about making a difference. His home town of New Rochelle, New York was in the middle of an urban renewal project. […]

Breakthrough Foreign Relations Project Created by Landmark Education Graduate Arnold Keiser »

Breakthrough Foreign Relations Project Created by Landmark Education Graduate Arnold Keiser, President of the
ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The OIC Foreign Relations Breakthrough Project was created in late 2006 and it’s intention is to end some of the 21st century’s pervasive problems such as conflicts in the Middle East, global terrorism, WMD proliferation, genocide and human rights […]

Gerald Schwartz Working to Resolve Northern California Water Disputes »

Gerald Schwartz is a Landmark Education Graduate and leads introductions to The Landmark Forum.  He has also been a farmer in California’s Central Valley for most of his life and was recently appointed to be the Central Valley Regional Liaison on water issues.  The history of water rights in California is fraught with lawsuits, animosity […]

Landmark Education Graduate Project "Genesis at the Crossroads" has Been Bringing The Arab and Jewish Communities Together Since 1999 »

Quilt communicates–One Peace at a Time
From: Sun Times News Group
December 4, 2006
By FELICIA DECHTER Staff Writer
The seventh-grade class from Nettelhorst School was as diverse and patchwork as the peace quilts its students were meticulously creating colorful, cotton squares for.The kids were participating in the humanitarian project, One Peace at a Time, which will ship bright […]

Innovative Prison Project Utilizes Landmark Education Course Concepts »

Moving beyond prison system
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
By David Parrish
Today, everyone is concerned about crime. We all live with the threat of becoming victims.
The alarming costs of crime include loss of life, traumatized people, disrupted families, and the enormous financial burden involved in maintaining a police presence and housing an ever-growing prison population.
The evidence continues to […]

Landmark Self Expression and Leadership tackles the revitalization of a New Jersey Town »

Jamesburg packs revitalization meeting
From the Princeton Packet
By: Audrey Levine, Special Writer
03/23/2007
The meeting focused on finding ways to better the downtown business district.
JAMESBURG — More than 100 residents attended a meeting at the Grace M. Breckwedel School to talk about how to improve the borough’s downtown.
The March 15 meeting was sponsored by the Jamesburg Revitalization […]

Self- Expression and Leadership Program Project Works to Stop Child Labor »

Landmark Graduates and Jewelry Business Owners Launch a Clear Concience Project
See Coverage on KTVU News Oakland, CA

Lori Bonn Designs, a 15-year old jewelry business based in Oakland, CA, founded by Lori Bonn Gallagher and operated by her husband, Bill Gallagher, has launched a long term industry project called Clear Conscience jewelry and accessories that […]

Landmark Graduate Creates Project to Allow Policy Makers and Welfare Recipients to Truly Understand Each Other »

How the Other Half Lives: “Walk a Mile” dares welfare policymakers and welfare recipients to swap lives
How’s this for a devastatingly simple solution to an age-old social problem? While Natasha Grossman was studying social work and interning at a welfare-reform lobbying organization in Washington state, she saw first-hand the cultural gap that existed between […]