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Ward Allan Yont & …and Purpose in Life: Spreading Enlightenment Behind Bars
Shortly after being incarcerated in an Arizona state penitentiary, Ward discovered A Course in Miracles. For the past 25 years, he’s been an avid student and practitioner of that classic spiritual work, and is a prison-based facilitator and teacher of topics related to spiritual psychotherapy and metaphysics. …and Purpose in Life is a memoir about the events that led to his incarceration and subsequent spiritual transformation. In renowned educator, speaker and author Marianne Williamson’s words: “We can easily focus on the tragedies in Yont’s story, but there is no need to dwell there. For this is a story of resurrection and love—of darkness turned into light, and the transformation of the human heart. Yont is not a victim, but a teacher. He has lived his own story and now he illumines ours.”
Dr. Rich Thorsten & water.org: Making Clean Water Accessible to All
Water.org is a global nonprofit organization working to bring water and sanitation to the world. They want to make it safe, accessible, and cost-effective.
They help people get access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing, such as small loans. They work every day to empower people in need with these life-changing resources – giving women hope, children health and families a bright future.
Peri Jude Radecic of Disability Rights Pennsylvania: Making Room for Everybody
Disability Rights Pennsylvania, known as DRP, is part of a national network of disability rights non-profit organizations that protect and advocate for the rights of children and adults with disabilities so that they may live the lives they choose, free from abuse, neglect, discrimination, and segregation.
Glenn Bergman: Distributing Food to Help Those in Need and Advocating Food-Access Policies through Philabundance
Glenn Bergman is the executive director of Philabundance, the region’s largest hunger-relief organization, acquiring, rescuing and distributing food to help feed those in need, and advocating for policies that increase food access. Philabundance’s mission is to drive hunger from our communities today and end hunger forever.
Tim Whitaker and Mighty Writers: Giving Kids the Power of Writing
Numbers don’t lie. Philadelphia is the poorest big city in the country. Nearly 40-percent of the city’s students are not graduating high school and only 30-percent of eighth grade kids are reading and writing at grade level.
That’s why in 2009, Mighty Writers was launched with a five-word elevator pitch: To teach kids to write.
They do this through four-day-a-week writing academies at their six neighborhood locations in Philadelphia, at their Kennett site in West Grove, and at their site in Camden, New Jersey.
Over the course of a year—including summers—they take students through every genre of writing but always with the same goal: to get kids to think clearly and write with clarity.
Safi Organics and Joyce Kamande: Empowering African Farmers
Safi Organics uses technology to downsize and decentralize fertilizer production, making it feasible to implement on a village-level basis using locally available resources and labor. This reduces the logistical cost and produces a high-quality product that, at the same price as conventional fertilizers, can improve farmers’ yields by up to 30%.
INNOVATE PODCAST
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Robert Rimm
Managing Editor, Arch Street Press
David Castro
CEO of the Institute for Leadership Education, Advancement and Development
Innovate Podcast hosts Robert Rimm and David Castro talk to groundbreaking social entrepreneurs and changemakers making positive social impact on the world with creative strategies to address intractable problems—from the environment and human rights to food and education—that directly affect the quality of life for countless people.
Robert and David explore what motivates mission-driven changemakers: their sources of inspiration, insights, challenges and successes, strategies, business models and vision for the future. Listen… and be inspired.
