Monthly Archives: June 2010

Legacy Center Graduate Mentors Boomerang Chapel Hill

Legacy Center NC Leadership Graduate Debbie Gabriel spent this last school year mentoring and tutoring students with "Boomerang" in Chapel Hill NC which many students and parents choose as an alternative to out of school suspension. This non-profit program serves students in middle school and high school and what is so powerful about it is ...

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Legacy Center Teen Leadership Transforms Families

The Legacy Center Foundation's Teen Leadership Program is the most amazing opportunity for teenagers to discover new things about themselves, decide how they want to show up in the world, improve their relationships with family, friends, and teachers, and achieve unprecedented results in all areas of their life.  I've seen some ...

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Girl Scouts Do More than Sell Cookies

I have been a Girl Scout Leader since my daughter was in 2nd grade.  She is now in middle school and I'm still leading her troop. It amazes me how far the girls have come and how much they want to give as they get older.  This year alone we made Valentines cards for Meals ...

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Legacy Center Graduates: 16 Person Kidney Swap

Extreme Giver John Foley saves lives.  Two Legacy Center NC leadership graduates have helped create the first ever 16-person kidney swap donation chain at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.  Legacy Center graduate Kaaren Johanson needed a kidney and her good friend John Foley was ready to give his to her. John Foley, a ...

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Legacy Center Extreme Giver Kay Reibold

Legacy Center Leadership Graduate Kay Reibold is indeed an extreme giver. She has worked on behalf of the Montagnard indigenous people of Vietnam’s Central Highlands for over 20 years, including 17 trips to Vietnam during the time she was the Director of the Vietnam Highlands Assistance Project for Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas from ...

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9/11 and Gander, Newfoundland

In terms of extreme givers I think of 9/11, but not in the usual way.  I remember waking up from my ACL surgery at UNC hospital and being attached to my morphine drip.  I loved that drip.  A nurse came in crying and turned on my TV and we watched the second plane go barreling ...

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Who is in the Driver’s Seat?

Meet my ego.  She is always thinking.  She broods about my past mistakes, plots new ways to stay safe so I don’t have to risk, and she worries about my future. Left unchecked, my ego drives me around for hours and hours and I get nowhere fast.  Sound familiar? How do you get yourself back in ...

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Club Nova: Mental Illness and Art

Club Nova:  Mental Illness and Art ExtremeGivers: Big Declarations! Two Days ( June 12 and 13) Created and painted with the residents four large murals on the outside of Club Nova. Scraped, sanded, primed, and painted the porch, pressure washed the building, landscaped the building, refurbished porch furniture. Expanded and landscaped existing flower bed.  Refurbished  existing gutters ...

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