An exciting announcement!
From
YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
and
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SKANDALARIAS CENTER
FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES
April 14, 2010 -- At last night’s YouthBridge Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition Awards Ceremony, we announced the following winners:
One Percent Foundation (OPF) is the winner of the $35,000 YouthBridge Award, as well as a $10,000 Skandalaris Award. Jonathan Kauffman, MBA 2011, the founder of OPF, also received the $5,000 student award. OPF empowers young adults to become lifelong philanthropists by facilitating engaged, systematic, collective and values-driven giving and participation. OPF Partners pledge to donate at least one percent of their income to philanthropy each year. The Foundation supports organizations in the five broad categories of Education, the Environment, Health, International Aid, and Poverty.
St. Louis Dancing Classrooms (SLDC) is the winner of the $30,000 Incarnate Word Foundation Award. SLDC is a social development program aimed at empowering youth, teaching respectful interaction, and promoting teamwork in St. Louis Metropolitan schools. Using the New York-based program (portrayed in Mad Hot Ballroom—currently serves 1,000 schools per year) as a model, SLDC is a 10-week in-school residency targeting 5th grade classrooms.
Twice Blessed Resale Shop is the winner of the $30,000 Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis Award, as well as a $10,000 Skandalaris Award. Twice Blessed is a social enterprise of Our Lady's Inn, a non-profit organization that serves homeless pregnant women and their children. The store serves as an employee-training program for clients, where they gain valuable work experience, an employer reference, and earn store credits towards purchases.
City Greens Produce is the winner of the $30,000 Daughters of Charity Foundation of St. Louis Award. City Greens aims to provide access to fresh, local, and affordable produce, promote healthy living in the community, provide a space for neighbors to interact, and support local Missouri farmers as part of the extended community.
Crafts By Youth--Economic Empowerment for Youth—was the winner of a $5,000 Skandalaris Award. Washington University students partnered with a Ugandan NGO called UDHA in the summer of 2009 to find a way to economically empower disadvantaged rural youth, primarily young women (ages 16-24). Crafts By Youth is the nonprofit started to sell the environmentally friendly recycled paper bead jewelry produced through the income-generating program.
The speaker at the Awards Ceremony was Kevin Salwen, author of The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back (http://www.thepowerofhalf.com/).
Written in tandem by the father-daughter team of Kevin and Hannah Salwen, The Power of Half (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) is the story of one family’s life-altering decision and its unexpected results. The Salwens hoped that selling their home would allow them to make things better in a small corner of the world. Little did they expect how much they would gain themselves.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Kevin Salwen was a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal for more than eighteen years. He has served on the board of Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta and works with the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Hannah Salwen is a junior at the Atlanta Girls’ School, where she plays volleyball, serves on the student council, and volunteers.
To receive a free copy of The Power of Half while supplies last, please stop by the Skandalaris Center in Simon Hall room 100.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE http://sc.wustl.edu/ OR CALL THE SKANDALARIAS CENTER AT (314) 935-9134.
