Tagged ‘education’

March 23rd, 2010By , , Comments (1)

Remember how dull (and awkward!) your high school sex ed and life skills classes were? Maura Minsky, co-Founder and Executive Director of Scenarios USA, has a different approach: let young people do the teaching - through film. Scenarios USA solicits screenplays from youth, ...

March 19th, 2010By , , Comments (1)

Geoff Cape, whose background was in carpentry and real estate development, founded Evergreen in 1991 to help city-dwelling Canadians reconnect with nature at a time when urban planning was obsessed with expanding the built environment. He has enlisted tens of thousands of volunteers ...

March 17th, 2010By Comments (1)

PROBLEM: Like the youths it serves, the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) often finds itself living close to the edge. Through its 11 year history, it has had to scramble continuously to keep the money flowing and the doors open, explains project ...