1 The Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s Global Action Learning CommunityOur 2016 Initiative

2 The Institute’s PledgeWe pledge to a new kind of engaged activism To be a force for positive change of the world; To improve the conditions of our neighborhoods, our countries, and the world; through individual actions and working with others. Together we will forge new directions for the global economy, bridge the gap between the haves and the have nots and strive to build a more peaceful and sustainable world. Walter Cronkite At the Institute’s Celebration of Heroes New York City, November 2, 2002 Signed by global leaders from business, government, community organizations.

3 Stone Soup Leadership InstituteStone Soup for the World: Life-Changing Stories of Everyday Heroes is a blueprint for building a better world. Its heroes are legendary people and ordinary folks who, by conviction, imagination, innovation, persistence, hard work, and moral or physical courage, have lifted their neighbors and their communities. They challenge each of us to respond in kind. In the last century we’ve shown the world how we can attack and solve perplexing problems with technology. Imagine if we were to apply that same intellectual power to solving the greatest problems the world faces – poverty, overpopulation, pollution, medical insufficiency, and our dependence on nonrenewable energy resources. Now is a good time to launch a bold new global initiative. This could be our version of the putting a man on the moon. It's time to take action -- and chart the course for our future. Walter Cronkite

4 The Institute’s Global Action Learning CommunityThe Institute is prototyping a global, accredited, socially networked, education platform connecting emerging leaders around the world. Inspired by the Institute’s Education Curriculum, empowered by its innovative training, technologically connected, this Global Action Learning Community catalyzes projects and start-up businesses with major social impact. For Emerging Leaders For Education Leaders For Business Leaders For Community Leaders The Institute’s Global Action Learning Community responds to the great demand for our Educational Curriculum and training programs in island and under-privileged communities.

5 Our Global Action Learning Community Launch PartnerThe Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute • Train staff in India with over 250 schools. • Connect interactively with our other 120 communities around the world.

6 The Institute’s Education CurriculumsStone Soup for the World: Life Changing Stories of Everyday Heroes Our Educational Curriculum is based on Stone Soup for the World.  Used in 120 communities. Educators teaching character education, multicultural literacy and critical thinking skills, project based-problem solving, social studies, service learning, citizenship and leadership development skills; Service-learning life-long community involvement; Churches: value-based character education; Community colleges and universities building public-private partnerships; Global education: Peace Corps, NGO’s in South Africa, Trinidad, Azerbaijan to build a democracy. The Institute’s Sustainable Leadership Curriculum: The Institute is developing an educational curriculum of best practices of sustainability with those on the front line of climate change and economic changes affecting our planet.

7 The Stone Soup Leadership Institute Company OverviewFounded in 1997 on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, the Stone Soup Leadership Institute collaborates with organizations and companies to develop public/private partnerships that build healthier communities and a sustainable world. The Institute created leadership trainings, youth leadership initiatives, two demonstration projects and special projects in eight communities. The Institute’s Annual Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development trains youth leaders from islands around the world to develop a 2020 vision for our collective future. For the last 18 years, the Institute has been turning hope into action -- from Stone Soup gatherings to a best-selling book and educational curriculum; from national grassroots educational campaigns to celebrity events honoring local heroes; from training teachers to organizing community initiatives; from empowering multicultural youth to developing a four-year demonstration project. We expose their young minds to inspiring leaders, by opening doors and expanding their horizons. The Institute’s book and Educational Curriculum, Stone Soup for the World: Life-Changing Stories of Everyday Heroes (Pan Y Vino Para El Camino) has been called a “handbook for humanitarians” and “a blueprint for building a better world.” This flagship bi-lingual service-learning program harnesses the energy, enthusiasm and idealism of youth with timely tools – using a values-oriented, multidisciplinary approach that teaches process-oriented critical thinking skills; makes learning meaningful to multicultural students; enhances language arts, civics and social studies; engages students in citizenship and leadership. Piloted by the YMCA of the USA, it has been used in 120 communities to prepare a new generation of multicultural leaders to address economic, environmental and social challenges of the 21st century.

8 The Institute’s Methodology: Innovative Education Model The Heart of the MatterAt the heart of the Institute’s work is the process of engaging young people in all aspects that results in true youth empowerment and leadership. The action-oriented research process results in building strategic cross-cultural, multidisciplinary alliances who work together to address key issues. We use an inclusive community planning process that ensures local ownership in assessing their needs as well as the community’s resources to address them. The Institute specializes in working with island youth who too often feel isolated or marginalized, and face high inequities in education, employment and life opportunities. We’ve provided training and technical assistance to cities in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Oakland, Hawaii, British Virgin Islands, the Philippines, Vieques, Puerto Rico, Martha’s Vineyard. Youth leaders from Nantucket and Caribbean islands of Jamaica, Bahamas and St. Vincent have served as delegates to the Institute’s Annual Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development. The Institute uses all mediums to maximize learning: published books and curriculums; audio tapes with celebrities reading stories; videotapes with Walter Cronkite and “Hero Reports” on people in the curriculum; videos featuring youth leaders in College Prep Programs, Job Shadow Day, developing Sustainable Development Maps, Tours and 2020 Reports and public speaking at Annual Walter Cronkite Awards Ceremony.

9 Case Study: Josue Cruz Morales Vieques, Puerto RicoJosue Cruz Morales is co-founder of the Vieques Youth Leadership Initiative. He has transformed his life from a depressed 15 year old C-D student to 4.0 pre-law student where he graduated in the top 5 at the University of Puerto Rico Carolina. In 2015 he graduated from University of Puerto Rico’s prestigious Law School. In 2010 Josue won the first Walter Cronkite Award for his integrity, humility and leadership. In 2010 Josue served as youth delegate from Vieques at the Institute’s 6th Annual Youth Leadership Summit on Sustainable Development. After the MVYLI Youth Summit, Josue was inspired to become a model for healthy living – reducing his carbon footprint, by shutting off his 24/7 air-conditioning; eating vegetables every day – and loosing over 100 pounds. Josue also helped implement the first “Green Initiative” in Puerto Rico’s public schools where more than 5,000 students and 150 teachers had their first contact with information about the environmental crisis and its effects on his homeland and the world. He helped create more than 100 school gardens through the Island, so the children could learn about producing their own healthy and environmentally- friendly food. In 2004 Josue researched and prepared the report The Challenges Facing Vieques Youth which served as VYLI’s benchmark. He served as the VYLI Youth Technology Coordinator and conducted the community assessment for the award-winning grant from Microsoft Caribbean’s Unlimited Potential, the Institute’s first Global Technology Initiative. In 2005 Josue served as a VYLI Summer Institute’s Technology Coordinator training youth to use Microsoft tools and creating VYLI’s series of newsletters. In 2006 he spearheaded VYLI’s Radio Initiative; welcomed Cesar Chavez to the Institute’s 3rd Annual Summer Institute; traveled to California to train with the Cesar Chavez Foundation’s Radio Campesina and with support from Cesar Chavez, Josue helped design VYLI’s website: Josue then created his own radio show Community Radio Show in partnership with (Radio Puerto Rico 740 AM). In 2007, he served on the Institute’s team to receive a federal grant (NTIA) to plan for a FCC license for the first radio station in Vieques.

10 The Institute’s Global Action Learning Community UsersFor Emerging Leaders Case Study in Puerto Rico: Josue Cruz Morales: Caribbean Business For Education Leaders For Business Leaders Workforce Development For Community Leaders 2020 Report on Sustainable Development in Vieques Design Sustainable Hawaii Forum: Emerging leaders, business, government, education leaders statewide; Sustainable Martha’s Vineyard Map Project

11 The Institute’s Demonstration Project OutcomesTransforming at-risk youth to youth leaders with a vision for their future. Reducing School Drop Outs: We invite all young people to dream about what they want for their lives, their future and the future of their island. We motivate and direct youth to education and opportunities; connect to the world of work through mentors, apprenticeships and internships. Each one, Teach One: we invite everyone to share their gifts with our youth - young and old. We train emerging leaders in their 20's to work with teens, who in turn work with younger children. Reduce Teen Pregnancy by Increasing Positive Role Models and supporting the dreams of teen models with the mission of "beauty with a purpose." Increase youth self-esteem through education/opportunities. Reducing Unemployment and Government Dependency by Increasing Skills: We train people to become entrepreneurs and reward them recognition in the community and with travel opportunities. We train people in computers and technology to connect them with the world of opportunities. Reducing Petty Crime by Bridging the Cultural Divide: We appeal to the enlightened self-interest of the business community to get involved with training the young people of the island. As part of our quest to connect young people with caring adults, we invite everyone in our community to serve as mentors. Statistics show that young people who have a caring adult in their lives are more likely to succeed.

12 The Institute’s History with Workforce DevelopmentThe Institute has a history of developing strategic public-private partnerships that develop healthier communities and benefit thousands of emerging leaders. Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative • MVYLI Career Mentoring & Job Shadow Day: MVYLI matched 60 Island businesses and professionals with Vineyard youth Hawaii/SHYLI Job Shadow Day: • Alex Siordia: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz & Representative Cindy Evans Juanito Moises Jr. & Sherry Anne Pancho: Oceanit’s Engineers Mechanical Engineer Robotics, Quantum Optical Technologies, Machine Vision. KaMele Sanchez: Richard Ha, Hamakua Springs Country Farm Sherry Pancho: Henk Rogers’ Puu Waawaa Ranch Mickie Hart: Dora Nakafuji, Hawaii Electric Company Lucy Gaceta: Pulama Lana’I LLC’s Nursery Department: David Palumbo Vieques Youth Leadership Initiative: Caribbean Media Exchange Conference on Sustainable Tourism: 6 youth delegates in 3 years on 2 islands Learned from leaders with presentations on innovations in sustainable tourism; Caribbean Business Vieques Youth Virgin Gorda Youth Leadership Initiative: BVI Tourism Company: youth intern to hired as assistant to promoted to sustainable tourism representative St. Lucia’s International School: sustainable tourism tour

13 The Institute’ 11th Annual Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable DevelopmentThe 2015 Summit was dedicated to Ocean Sustainability. Our Sustainability-In-Action Project is the HOPE SPOTS with Dr. Sylvia Earle. The Summit’s first day is on Lucy Vincent Beach where the first “magic stone” was found that led to the book and the Institute.

14 The Institute’s Global Learning Portal: Creating Learning LabsEast Coast Lab Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative: In partnership with non-profit organizations, develop Sustainability-In-Action projects that contribute to the Island’s cultural, economic and environmental balance. Caribbean Lab: Puerto Rico Vieques Youth Leadership Initiative: West Coast Lab Sustainable Hawaii Youth Leadership Initiative: By collaborating with the Institute’s team of education, environmental and international development leaders, educators will be able to access our capacity building training; increase their ability to develop partnership projects and create online communities-in-action with socially positive projects.

15 The Institute’s Global Learning PortalVision: To develop an online accredited university to build a sustainable world. Mission: To create an Online Education Resource Center: millions of youth, teachers and their communities will enjoy the inspirational stories, exchange creative ideas and explore ways to engage others to work together to improve their world. To create a virtual learning-in-action global village to connect, inform and involve youth in project-based learning and social entrepreneurship projects in 120 countries. To meet the need for training young and emerging leaders to address the economic, environmental, social issues of the 21st century. To prepare a STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) knowledge-based workforce and community development through an online portal connecting youth leaders of the world. To collaborate with the Institute’s team of education, environmental and international leaders. Youth and communities throughout the world will be able to access our capacity building training; increase their ability to develop social entrepreneurship projects and online with Sustainability-In-Action projects.

16 The Institute’s Global Learning PortalOur objective for our Global Technology Portal is to reach as many community stakeholders to interface through the following capacities: E-learning capability; Project based; social network capacity; through collaborative projects; Webinars, social media interface - similar to Facebook; Base Camp HQ-online project collaborative tool; Blogs and video for mentorships; Open-sourcing of our educational tools; curriculum, programs, books; Video courses, live courses, Interactive; Social entrepreneurship projects to address environmental issues of our times. Interactive simulation games: to learn how/why people from the book became heroes like Paul Newman creating Newman’s Own; Share experiences, approaches, insights at local, national, international levels. Smart Card Access for membership and password sensitive.

17 Global Learning Portal: Our PartnersOur Goal: to use the Institute’s Educational Curriculum and tools with multiple sites to address the social, economic and environmental issues facing islands and places around the world. East Coast Hub: Martha’s Vineyard The Institute’s History: The Institute was founded on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in The book and educational curriculum were written on the Island and piloted with the schools. The Vineyard was the Institute’s first initiative: we developed numerous events and service projects that benefited the community. Culturally diverse island with strong African American community, Wampanoag federally registered Tribe, large Brazilian community, emerging Jamaican community, diverse seasonal community. Sustainable Development: strong community of farms and environmental organizations who are committed to preserving the quality of life and island resources. Economic challenges: Martha’s Vineyard is the poorest county in Massachusetts with long-term poverty, high levels of at-risk behaviors, fragmented community, struggling seasonal economy, rising unemployment. Seasonal residents and tourists: represent progressive elite of North America. Martha’s Vineyard Commission completed a 5 year community planning process to create the Island Plan, a Vision for They are eager to have youth envision THEIR future on the island. Resources: Martha’s Vineyard Community Television.

18 Benefits Emerging Leaders• Learn about sustainable best practices on islands of Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, Caribbean. • Highlight model programs in sustainable agriculture, building, culture, and energy. • Youth learn how to develop a can-do spirit and how to make it happen action plan. • Match young people’s interests and skills with their vocational, college, career goals. • Learn how to develop a 5 year- action plan to develop Sustainability-In-Action plans

19 The Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s Demonstration ProjectVieques Youth Leadership Initiative: Four-year bi-lingual demonstration project using the Institute’s Spanish curriculum; Pan Y Vino Para El Camino to train young/ emerging leaders to build new Vieques; The Brookings Institute’s Report in 2004: Puerto Rico is twice as poor as the poorest state in the U.S. Vieques is the poorest in Puerto Rico. VYLI Report: The Challenges Facing Vieques Youth; Conducted four Youth Leadership Summits for Sustainable Development with the Institute’s Spanish-speaking faculty; Cultural-Social Entrepreneurship, Eco-Tourism, Sustainable Development and Technology. Technology Initiative: received grant from Microsoft Caribbean’s Unlimited Potential. Documented Progress on Video: VYLI Youth Dreams: VYLI emerging leaders developed VYLI’s 2020 Report on Sustainable Development as a roadmap for their future. Presented to Puerto Rican Tourism Company leaders, Caribbean Ministers and APEC Summit in Peru.

20 Global Learning Community West Coast Hub: HawaiiWindward Community College: In partnership with Castle High School Design Sustainable Hawaii Forum: 2014 LHES/Lanai School Improvement Initiative: SHYLI Youth Leader: Trevor Tanaka: 2013 Resolution #25 = Sustainable Education in all Hawaii schools.

21 SHYLI Case Study: Alex Siordia

22 The Institute’s Global Learning Portal Our GoalsTo create a Global e-Learning Resource Center Portal to facilitate an interactive global village where people communicate via our website portal and videoconferencing. The Institute’s Educational Curriculum is hands-on and replicable in a wide variety of locations, especially inner cities with diminishing federal funds and those competing for limited resources in global economy. The Institute’s faculty integrates creative and effective uses of appropriate pedagogy and technologies to enhance student learning. We foster a culture to promote collaboration, collegiality, and mentoring to enhance the scholarship and practice of teaching to impact learning. We want to assess the impact on learning and teaching via the creative and effective integration of appropriate technologies through a variety of techniques. By collaborating with our team of pioneers in education and international development with Internet and new media, we will strengthen capacity building training, increase our ability to develop partnership projects and create online communities-in-action with socially positive projects. By creating an online social and educational community, it could become a beacon of hope for the development of young leaders around the globe. The unique combination of the Institute’s inspiring and empowering content in a proven educational curriculum with experiential learning model (live interaction with grass root heroes in the curriculum) creates a powerfully transformational program that catalyzes individual, group and community people-powered development for the good of humanity. By training local people to use these educational tools, it addresses the urgency of now issue while ensuring local ownership. This is the only proven educational curriculum in English and Spanish with a ten-year track record that effectively reaches the disenfranchised and creates a positive emotional attachment among users and captures their attention in an exciting strategy for using technology for the good of all humanity. Young people from the poorest communities with access to our tools are able to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to realize their dreams and transform their communities. In partnership with our on-line media partners and innovative technology, we will create a virtual learning-in-action global village to connect, inform and involve young people in project-based learning in 120 countries. Young people around the world. By expanding to include broadband and interactive technology, the Institute can use its Curriculum to promote the effective application of distance learning strategies to maximize access, equity, and quality of educational resources for teachers/trainers and learners of all ages including desktop videoconferencing, podcasting, Internet radio broadcasts, blogging and new technologies for Cybermentoring with Talkshoe, an online service to enable people to easily create, join, and listen to live interactive discussions.

23 The Institute’s Global Learning Portal Educational ToolsEducational tools: cost-effective strategy to maximize distribution Educational curriculums: Stone Soup for the World, Stone Soup for the New World, and STEM Partners: community technology centers, non-profit organizations, schools and universities Learning communities in collaboration with Institute’s education, environmental leaders. Users – connected around the world YMCA of the USA: pilot program (1999), users nationwide Education Curriculum users in 120 communities around the world Youth Leadership Summit delegates from Hawaii, Nantucket and Caribbean islands The Institute’s Initiatives: inner cities, island communities and global: Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, Oakland, Cincinnati, Vieques, PR and Virgin Gorda, BVI Proposed Online Programs Hero of the Month Interactive Youth Leadership Development Curriculum On-Line Student Chat Rooms: People solving local & global challenges Call-to-action: linked with TV, radio & print media Web events: exciting dialogues with youth around the world Action Think Tank: global education resource links leaders Project/Community Planning On-line Mentoring Action Plan Development Train-the-Trainer Leadership: video-based, certification, interactive, project-based 2020 Report on Sustainable Development Annual Youth Leadership Summits on Sustainable Development Sustainability-In-Action/Social Entrepreneurship Projects Smart Card Accessibility

24 MVYLI’s Sustainability Map Project 2010-2014

25 Organizations Featured in Book/CurriculumABC for Tots ACORN American Poetry & Literacy Project Ames Rubber Corporation Barrios Unidos Bethel New Life Beaverton Oregon Schools Bonneville International Corporate Bread for the World Calvert Social Investment Fund City Year Coop America Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Duke Ellington School of the Arts EDS Facing History and Ourselves Fellowship for Reconciliation Focus: HOPE Food from the ‘Hood Foster Grandparents Glide Memorial Church Gilroy Garlic Festival Habitat for Humanity Home Depot Independent Sector INROADS KaBOOM! KIPP LA Works Learning is Leadership Lessons Without Borders Literacy Volunteers of America MAD DADS Manhattan Country School MEDISEND National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship NationsBank Neve Shalom/Wahat Salam New York Restoration Project Oxfam-America Pathways to Peace Peace Corps Rachel’s Bus Company Rebuilding Together Seva Foundation Share Our Strength Shoah Foundation Special Olympics Target TDIndustries Teach for America Thanksgiving Coffee The Grameen Bank The Names Project The Natural Step TreePeople United Farmworkers of America USA Harvest Walking Shield Working Assets White Dog Café Working in the Schools World Hunger Organization YouthBuild

26 The Institute’s Global Learning Portal: Educational Tools Under DevelopmentOnline launch bi-lingual book/curriculum online: Stone Soup for the New World: Life-Changing Stories of Young Everyday Heroes -- features 100 visionaries, pioneers, trail blazers & trouble-shooters, social entrepreneurs and future leaders with a new vision and new direction for the planet. Technologically savvy organizations like Taking ITGlobal, Avaaz, Global Youth Action Net, Cesar Chavez who uses technology to carry on his grandfather’s dream of educating millions of Latin farmworkers; Free the Children, Active Element, Youth Ventures and Youth for Environmental Sanity. We will meet young people with what they want: more instant and collaborative technology: Blogs, wikis, IM, Twitter and an internal portal with social networking capabilities similar to LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace -- and in a controlled environment should someone ask a question, the whole network community helps to solve the problem, from a global and diverse perspective. We will take on projects, share our progress and lessons learned as we move forward towards our goals “stone by stone.” As part of the Institute’s commitment to bridge the digital divide, and provide equitable access to advanced technologies for underserved communities and increased access to the educational, cultural, civic, socioeconomic opportunities, we will work with groups of teens to design the Institute’s interactive curriculum to engage millions of young people of color in project-based learning with green projects that address urgent issues on the planet. This will contribute to the discussion of careers and strategies for producing the next generation of innovators in STEM fields. In collaboration with companies on the cutting edge of inventing products and strategies to reduce global warming.

27 Youth Leadership Summit OutcomesYouth are empowered to be spokespersons and representatives of their islands – learning how to develop action plans, troubleshoot challenges, prepare presentations. By giving them state-of-the-art leadership tools and training, they can become lightening rods for change, moving through bureaucracies and engaging traditional leaders. By engaging youth in envisioning, planning and creating their future, The Institute’s leadership helps them to be more hopeful and invested in their future. We strive to reduce negative social-economic issues of apathy, school drop out, drug abuse, and teen pregnancy. SHYLI’s Leadership Forum creates a multiplier effect for future generations and ensures long-term sustainable development. __________________ Youth are exposed to inspiring youth leaders who’ve overcome obstacles and changed their lives and their world.  Youth receive educational tools and training to develop a can-do spirit and make-it-happen initiative in their lives. Youth learn about best practices and innovative models to address sustainable issues on their island. Youth receive assessment tools to make healthy decisions and build on their strengths, minimize their weaknesses. Youth learn to develop action plans; troubleshoot challenges, prepare presentations, develop strategies to engage others. Youth learn to make effective presentations: verbally, written, artistically and through video and social media. Youth are empowered to be representatives of sustainability issues and projects affecting their islands. A local emerging leader is hired and receives training from the Institute as the local project coordinator. Young people learn to articulate their goals and are matched with mentors for their vocational, college, and career goals. Builds a coalition of youth, business and non-profit organizations working together to build a sustainable future. Encourages coordination, collaboration, communication with educational and environmental community. Cost-effective collaborative model that encourages capacity building: empowers youth and engages their community. Creates a win-win strategy that by design teaches collaboration with schools, organizations, communities.

28 The Institute’s Global Learning PortalLeading Edge Breakthrough Content The only proven educational curriculum in English and Spanish with a 18-year track record that effectively reaches the disenfranchised and transforms young lives into future leaders. A unique combination of inspiring and empowering content in a proven educational curriculum with experiential learning model: live interaction with heroes in the book. Young people from the poorest communities with access to our tools are able to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to realize their dreams and transform their communities. Documented evidence of programming which powerfully provide children with transformational experiences.

29 The Institute’s Global E-Learning Resource Center PortalWe will make the Institute’s Educational Curriculum accessible to more teachers by leveraging technology: computer based training, satellite video conferencing, teacher training and extranet to enable students and instructors to access the entire curriculum via the internet. Instructors will download, print and use the curriculum to lead their students. Through on-line chats and web-casts, students will be inspired to share their own stories, exchange creative ideas and explore ways to engage others to improve their world. We will redesign the Curriculum for web-based learning and interaction to provide faster, easier updates and enable instructors/facilitators/students to immediately receive the benefits of the program. We will design the Institute’s on-line interactive portal as an Interactive Leadership Development Curriculum and Action Think Tank linking grass root leaders with online chats to meet their specific needs to implement the curriculum. By collaborating with our team of pioneers in education and international development with Internet and new media, we will strengthen capacity building training, increase our ability to develop partnership projects and create online action learning communities with socially positive projects. We will develop self-evaluation measurement tools with built-in checkpoint surveys that re-enforce learning and provide continual process improvement in preparing future leaders. Schools: develop critical thinking skills, bridges cultural-digital divide, prepares future leaders; Educators enhance lessons plans to teach character building, citizenship and leadership development; Teachers in low-performing schools: supplemental instruction in reading, language arts, and civics; After-school programs use for coordinated curricula and activities; Tutors/ Title I/VII in reading improvement programs seek inspirational educational materials; Service-learning coordinators meet community service mandates and promote life-long involvement; Citizens/community organizers to prepare them to address issues in their communities. Community colleges and universities train students to build public-private partnerships; Volunteer Centers and community organizations train, motivate and retain new volunteers; Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, YMCA: inspire and train staff and volunteers to maximize their gifts; Companies for employees who serve as tutors and/or mentors in 1 on 1 or group programs; U.S History professors expand students respect for volunteerism, empowerment, philanthropy, NGO’s, corporate social responsibility; Leaders in new democracies study the building blocks for a democracy and sustainable development.

30 The Stone Soup Leadership Institute: Marianne LarnedMs. Larned is the author of Stone Soup for the World: Life-Changing Stories of Everyday Heroes and the Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s Educational Curriculum. She is the founding director of the Stone Soup Leadership Institute and has lived and worked in communities around the world that are using the Institute’s Educational Curriculum to train young and emerging leaders to realize their dreams for their lives, their communities and the world. For 20 years Ms. Larned assisted corporate, education, government, civic and community leaders to develop public-private partnerships and Healthy Communities Initiatives that improved public education, health care and economic development. Her educational experience at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Education and the Rudolph Steiner Center in Scotland trained her to be an innovative educator. Her graduate studies at Boston University and California State University prepared her as an Organizational Development Consultant to catalyze major changes in companies and communities to build a better world.

31 The Institute’s International Advisory Council and Board of DirectorsOur International Advisory Council Honorary Chair Emeritus: Walter Cronkite Dr. Noel Brown, President Friends of the United Nations Arun Gandhi, Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute Cesar L. Chavez, Radio Campesina Marilyn Concepcion Cheyne, Latino Affairs, Congresswoman Rosa DeLora Josue Cruz, Co-Founder, Vieques Youth Leadership Initiative Edward James Olmos, Olmos Productions Kristen Pauly, The Prince Charitable Trust Isabel Valdes, Latin social marketing leader Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Founder Grameen Bank (2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner) Our Board of Directors Nane Alejandrez Ian Kitajima, Oceantit Hulas King, Siemens Robert J. Corcoran Marianne Larned Karen Stone McCown Brown Williams

32 Imagine what could happen if we worked with the young peopleThe Stone Soup Leadership Institute Global Learning Action Learning Community The Stone Soup Leadership Institute has worked hard for over 18 years, impacting the lives of children in island, rural and urban communities; trying desperately to make a difference, to change the lives of young people, who through no fault of their own, have seemingly lost their ability to dream and to have hope. Imagine what could happen if we worked with the young people to build a new world. We need your assistance and invite you to join us in this quest by sharing your time, talents and resources. Time is of the essence.