Two amazing women; Natasha Ferro and Martha Kay have been mentoring groups of middle school girls, after school, since 2012 at the Normandin Middle School. "The Sorority" morphed into a Youth Philanthropy Group this year and with the guidance of Natasha and Martha...
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from...
Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an African-American writer, best known for his controversial novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, which was first published in London by Allison & Busby in March 1969 (having been rejected by dozens of...
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. Elwyn Brooks "E....
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama. Dalai Lamas are...
Learn, Lead, Serve, Succeed is the mantra for the Alma del Mar Public Charter School. We are huge fans of the work they do and especially of how much they have been able to accomplish since starting four years ago. We have always supported their community service...
We think Christopher Bowe knows what he is talking about. If you care about what is going on with the Opioid epidemic, then this article is insightful. Repost of the HBR article, "Fixing Pharma’s Incentives Problem in the Wake of the U.S. Opioid Crisis." June 13,...
Donovan Livingston's Harvard Graduate School of Education May 2016 Convocation Speech
"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." Aung San Suu Kyi: (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese social democratic stateswoman, politician, diplomat and author who serves as the First and incumbent State Counsellor and Leader of the...
Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the firsthand American female war photojournalist, and...