Today, we spent most of the day at the Common Ground Relief(CGR) nursery planting baby cypress trees. It took us about 3 hours to finish all of the work which was very quick, and we planted over 300 Cyprus trees. After our work, we went back to the clubhouse to get ready for the Juneteenth...
How Shoulder-to-Shoulder Uses Field Studies to Inspire Ethical Leadership
Our Story and Our Mission In the face of the pressing problems that exist in the world, we created Shoulder-to-Shoulder in 2007 to give students an avenue to explore real-world answers to a pressing question: “What can we do?” What began as a program with one school, 30 students, and three NGO partners has grown...
This week, I have earned a few new bruises and a few new rips in my previously brand-new pants. Whether it was moving sand from point A to point B, or following “uncle” Silas’s paver pattern, I am always left with a little something. Most often, it’s not a tear or a cut, but a...