Landmark Grads in the News

Landmark Education’s contributions go far beyond our corporate giving and relief campaigns. We have built into the structural design of our curricula courses specifically designed to support people going beyond their personal, relationship, and organizational interests to the betterment of the community.

A catalyst for community improvement, Landmark’s programs equip participants with the tools that they need to make a measurable impact in the communities they serve. Course participants generate projects in their community organizations, neighborhoods, schools, and churches.

One of the greatest strengths of the international community of Landmark graduates is the ability to learn from one another, share new ideas, and deliver positive change in their own organizations and communities.


The following articles highlight several Landmark graduates and their community achievements:

News Blog: Landmark Graduates
News stories about Landmark Education graduates and the difference they are making in their communities, and news around the world.


Sewickley Herald 
A local community newspaper reports on the issues of bullying and what one Landmark Education graduate is doing about it in his own neighborhood.
Carmel Valley News 
On May 1 ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" announced that MaryKay Mullally was one of five 2008 "Picture of Health" finalist nominations in the second annual contest for women over 40.
The Colonial 
"Looking back now, Elgar Richards 'can't believe the impact [The Landmark Forum] had on my entire outlook on life. It...showed me the impact I can have on other people's lives, the world, even.'"
St Louis Post-Dispatch
"I wanted regular New Yorkers to know that they also were in the thoughts and prayers of the nation."
Donnybrook/Bridgetown Mail
"The Medieval Festival came about through a Landmark Education course in which Roz Benson participated.
'In the program you create a community project that brings a certain possibility into being,' she said."
Antelope Valley Press
"[Landmark's] Self-Expression Leadership Program?teaches individuals and organizations how to be leaders and effective communicators? Participants came up with a community project?Thus the 'Happy Birthdays!' project was born."
The Gazette
"An eye-opening course about community, how we're all connected as human beings, and how one person really can make a difference in the world."
Parma Sun Post
"Extraordinary things are happening in a corner of Parma...'Students at Landmark Education powerfully take out into their lives the tools they learn...'"
The Detroit News
"What if more [community leaders] took courses such as The [Landmark] Forum that sparked new ways to communicate, see past blight, and seize new possibilities?"
 
The New York Times
"Neat Street started as part of a [Landmark Education] course on leadership and self-expression...The assignment: create a program that affects a community, be it family, neighborhood, whatever."
 
Bucks County Courier Times
"There was an energy with these kids. They wanted to get involved in everything...[They] came away knowing that art can be fun."
Hunterdon County Democrat
"In addition to helping needy athletes, the equipment drive satisfies a class requirement...in the Landmark Education leadership seminar."
Marin Independent Journal
"I don't want to go home," he said. "Most fun I've ever had...since I was paralyzed."
 
The Miami Herald
"As you work with them in terms of their coping skills and managing the impact of AIDS in the household, you also work with educating them so they won't put themselves at risk."
Press-Telegram
"Business owner hires ex-gang member as part of the program. She urges others to join effort."
 
Record-Courier
"Grandparents and teenagers, skateboarders and senior citizens, musicians and music fans of all ages have found reasons to celebrate together..."
The Arizona Republic 
"Camp Hakuna Matata...named for a phrase in the movie The Lion King that means, "No Worries," [gives] families a four-day escape...and a chance to learn from others affected or infected by [HIV]."
 Valley News Dispatch
"[Tim Stevens] started B-PEP, Black Political Empowerment Project, during a Landmark seminar. In one year, B-PEP registered 8,000 African-Americans in Pittsburg [to vote]."

Landmark Grads Making a Difference

One created health programs for children in Haiti. Another initiated job training for homeless people in the United States. A third launched Internet access to refugees in Kosovo. Read about grads making a difference around the world.


A Participant's
Perspective

Several years ago the project I selected in my Self-Expression and Leadership Program was bringing Internet access to developing countries and refugee camps. Since then, the United Nations has become an active partner and companies such as IBM, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, and Apple have participated both with funding and resources. I attribute my success with this project and the courage it took to carry it out to my participation in Landmark?s programs.

Melanie Edwards
San Francisco, CA, USA

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