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Community Stewardship Advocacy

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Optimist Cancer Research Initiative with Johns Hopkins


Optimist International has met a $1 million commitment to fund an Endowed Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Clubs may donate funds restricted to CCC Research to play an important role in finding the cure.

In the video below, a young cancer survivor talks about what Optimist International's contributions to Johns Hopkins have meant to her personally. The video was shown at the 2010 Optimist International Convention.

About co-creating a Community Project/Activity (social responsibility) scrapbook on our
KVHA->
LBOC “No Child Left Inside” Community Stewardship Advocacy

with LEAP-497 via New York Elementary School …

 

THINK Globally & InterACT Regionally but LEARN Locally:

CSR-38pp_twiw_slovakia_en.pdf


 

Optimism — the expectation of a better tomorrow — is universal, according to a new worldwide Gallup poll.

Around the world, 95 percent of people expect their lives in five years to be as good as or better than they were five years ago, according to the survey analyzed by a Kansas University graduate student. “The instillation of hope is the biggest factor that causes change,” said Matthew Gallagher, 27, a clinical psychology student who came up with the idea to find out how optimistic people were.

 

ALL-WinWin Advocacy Survival Skills Checklist
This checklist summarizes major points from KU "Community Tool Box" text.

___Accentuate the positive

___Emphasize your organization's accomplishments to the community

___Plan for small wins

___Present the issues in the way you want others to see them

___Develop your own public identity

___Check your facts

___Keep it simple

___Be passionate and persistent

___Be prepared to compromise

___Be opportunistic and creative

___Stay your course

___Look for the good in others

___Keep your eyes on the prize

___Make issues local and relevant

___Get broad based support from the start

___Work within the experiences of your group members

___Try to work outside the experiences of your opponents

___Make your opponents play by their own rules

___Tie your advocacy group's efforts to related events

___Enjoy yourself

 

Source-URL: http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablec...

 

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