Inspired To Action

At the Humanity Project, we had the opportunity within the past seven days to hear in person from two inspiring moral leaders. The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu both spoke at Nova Southeastern University – and we were lucky enough to be there both times. Each man offered meaningful ideas about world peace, from two different perspectives. The Dalai Lama talked about the importance of compassion and forgiveness and recognizing the common qualities among all human beings. Archbishop Tutu spoke about becoming instruments of good through our own efforts, rather than relying on God to make a difference on our planet. We walked away with even greater respect for both of these men. And with an even stronger commitment to our own work at the Humanity Project. This includes working toward our goal of creating a brand new website solely to teach human values to kids from 8-14-years-old: www.thp4kids.com. The Humanity Project 4 Kids. In our own way, we hope we’re carrying out some of the goals discussed so eloquently by the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

Some Podcast Fun

We hope you'll take a half hour to have some fun with our new podcast. Called "A Board Member Speaks," the title may not exactly be catchy! ;-) But the program will grab you if you begin listening and stay with it a few minutes. The Humanity Project's newest member of the Board of Directors, Bob LaMendola, is not only a socially committed, thoughtful person -- he's fun. As a full time journalist and musician, he tells some good stories on this podcast. We think you may also enjoy our cool original theme music for this show. (Each podcast has different original music, composed and performed by The Humanity Project's president/founder. Check out various programs and you'll hear everything from blues to New Age music, classical to hip hop.) Just go to www.thehumanityproject.com and click on the podcast tab. Then open the latest program. Let us know what you think of the new podcast -- and please help us spread the word. Tell your friends about our blogs and podcasts! Thanks!!

Marching Forward

At The Humanity Project, we’re very pleased. The Broward School Board, which runs the sixth largest school district in the United States, has officially declared Sunday, November 16, “Thousand Youth March for Humanity Day.” This unprecedented event will bring together students from kindergarten through 12th grade to take back their schools from the bullies. Thank you for this honor, Broward School Board. We also want to thank our growing list of sponsors, which now includes Nova Southeastern University, Florida Marlins, State Farm, AutoNation, Freeman Orthodontics, Downtown Development Authority, Yellow Strawberry Global Hair Salon and Children’s Services Council of Broward County. Next month, we all will join together with thousands of students and community groups and churches and arts organizations with one simple purpose: to make bullying socially unacceptable. We hope you’ll want to help our effort in whatever ways you can. Just go to the Contact Us page at www.thehumanityproject.com to call or email for more information. Or donate at our Join/Donate page at this same website. Thanks!

Thanks, Nova!

As The Humanity Project continues our hard work on the fast-approaching Thousand Youth March for Humanity, we have reason today to celebrate. We welcome an important new sponsor to our efforts: Nova Southeastern University, an influential institution in South Florida. NSU has just joined our growing list of supporters for this big event, which is a march by students to end bullying in their schools. In effect, the students are taking back their own school yards, halls and classrooms from the troublemakers. It's part of The Humanity Project's programs to help make bullying socially unacceptable behavior. We’re proud that NSU wants to work with us.

Nova is based in the Fort Lauderdale area, with a lovely 300-acre campus and more than 26,000 students. It’s the largest independent institution of higher learning in the southeastern United States. The university also boasts a group of experts on the issue of bullying. We gratefully add NSU to a sponsor list that, as of this writing, also includes the Florida Marlins Major League Baseball team, AutoNation, Downtown Development Authority, Children’s Services Council and our old friends at Yellow Strawberry Global Hair Salon. Thanks to each of you and to Nova. Together, we can help end school bullying – and help prevent the psychological and physical damage to kids that often results from this abuse. The Thousand Youth March for Humanity can serve as our rallying point for change.