http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/09/magazine/0309-FACES_index.html
Above is a great artcile from the New York Times. The site is a slide show of four great examples of people who have sought to fill a societal need by starting their own organizations, with support from grant-giving nonprofits like Ashoka’s Youth Venture and Echoing Green.
‘‘Our generation is replacing signs and protests with individual actions,’’ says Kyle Taylor, 23, an advocate for the social-entrepreneur movement who started his own mentoring organization. ‘‘This is our civil rights movement and what will define our generation.’’
These are great examples of how a single person who thinks "big" can literally change the world with some determination and hard work. Each has proven that we all can find ways to improve the communities we live in and come from.
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Is your class thinking about doing something big in your community? Sounds like you have a lot of great examples to follow.....
ReplyDeleteyes, as part of our semester group project we will be doing some community service hours (20) and then as a group we are going to create a self sustaining plan for that organization that will better the lives of the people involved with it.
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