By Vincent Cahill on Feb 29, 2008 in Chicago, Sports | 0 Comments
Chicago police officer and Landmark Forum graduate Nial Funchion has an extraordinary goal planned for June of this year: To swim around the entire perimeter of Lake Michigan, a distance of over 1,000 miles. Funchion’s motives in taking on the swim are not rooted in a daredevil spirit or a desire for glory.
“I am not concerned about […]
By Vincent Cahill on Dec 6, 2007 in Education, High School, Los Angeles, Sports, Video Features | 1 Comment
Landmark Forum Graduate Sean Mckeon is a teach and coach at Manual Arts high school in Los Angeles. While a participant in the Self Expression and Leadership Program, he created a community project called LAX in LA.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=911238804471689711
Here is a story by Dan Heimpel a journalist and former lacrosse player who was so inspired by the […]
By Heather D on Sep 14, 2007 in Education, Environment, India, Sports | 0 Comments
Indian Landmark Forum Graduate Mahalakshmi Viswanathans has created a project to help bring adventure sports and outdoor education to people with disabilities.
Here is an article about the project from the Deccan Herald in Bangalore India.
Giving wings to their dreams
Mahalakshmi Viswanathans purpose of setting up Wings was an attempt to give differently-abled people a chance to […]
By George F on Sep 5, 2007 in Los Angeles, Sports, Video Features | 0 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZce97LkKA
Landmark Education graduates in the Team Management Leadership program in Los Angeles watched as thousands of American soldiers returned from Iraq with permanent disabilities and knew they wanted to do something. The way Tom Tapp saw it, these soldiers were defending our freedom, yet to the thousands of those who returned without limbs lost in […]
By Derek Dearden on Sep 4, 2007 in Commentary, Innovation, Music, Sports, UK | 0 Comments
Graham Smedley has created a project in the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program with the goal of getting people to sing John Lennon’s give peace a chance before football games. This unusual idea has been getting some attention in his home town of Swindon England.
Sing your hearts out
By Matt Jackson
Graham Smedley who wants […]
By admin on May 15, 2007 in Family, Health/Medicine, Parenting, Sports, United States, Video Features | 0 Comments
Special Spectators was a project created in 2002 by Blake Rockwell while he was a participant in the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program. Blake is a huge sports fan and got the idea to give seriously ill children a chance to attend College Sporting Events. In the 5 years since the project began, Special […]
By admin on Apr 6, 2007 in Education, Health/Medicine, Landmark Education, Parenting, Sports, Video Features, Virginia | 0 Comments
Limbs For Life
From 9NEWS NOW Washington D.C.
If there was ever a pitch for a cause, Jessica Rogers knows how to hit it.
“Some kids that don’t have legs and arms, they’re gonna get money for them to get fake legs and arms.”
“How important is that?” asks 9NEWS NOW reporter Emily Schmidt.
“That’s really important because you want […]