Bob Knotts | April 30, 2012
We were back at it just today. on a rainy Monday morning as I post this blog. Less than two hours ago, we were finishing up our latest Humanity Project in-school session. This time, we were in the elementary schools again to teach our highly praised Anti-bullying Through The Arts program to hundreds of kids at Plantation Elementary in Plantation, Florida. This community is a large suburb of Fort Lauderdale, right between Miami and West Palm Beach. The kids were great! We gave our program to every child in the school: pre-K through grade 5.
The Humanity Project’s Gabriela Pinto talks with Plantation Elementary kids before our programThey enjoyed it, applauded it, clapped with our music and laughed at our jokes. More importantly, we’re sure they will remember our important lessons. And we’ll soon have the pre-post test scores back, results that in the past have proven that the young kids learned from our program
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Bob Knotts | April 23, 2012
The Humanity Project loves all our sponsors and community partners. They make our work possible because we don’t charge for our programs. So we’re very pleased to announce that highly respected Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital has renewed their sponsorship of the Humanity Project for 2012. We’ve been working on the same team with the good folks at JDCH for a year now. And with each exposure to their efforts, we’re increasingly impressed.
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Bob Knotts | April 15, 2012
The Humanity Project is proud to be part of the national anti-bullying movement. So much so, in fact, that our organization was recently contacted by the home office of Sears, requesting that the Humanity Project take part in a new national anti-bullying campaign by the retail chain. As they wrote to us, “I’m contacting you on behalf of Sears because your organization been identified as key leader in the anti-bullying movement.” It’s true — and our innovative program really works. We think it’s important, then, to add our voice to the widespread commentary on the movie, “Bully.” To us, this film is a gamechanger in the anti-bullying campaign. Why? Because it is the first major cultural medium to tackle this topic so forcefully and movingly.
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Bob Knotts | March 24, 2012
We were very pleased to see that our new “I Care!” teen driver safety program already has attracted news coverage — months before the program is actually launched. That’s because our approach to teen driver safety is so unusual, drawing on teen-to-teen friendships and positive peer pressure rather than the usual ineffective scare tactics. You can read more about “I Care!” in two languages. The Spanish language El Sentinel, sister newspaper to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, ran a recent story on our program. Here’s a link to read that well-done piece, en Espanol: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/elsentinel/fl-es-com0317manejo-20120315,0,6835264.story. If you are looking for coverage in English, you can read a good story from the Plantation Forum newspaper: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/plantation/fl-pf-text-0222-20120302,0,1165776.story?track=rss. Either article will give you a bit more detail on what we’re doing.
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Bob Knotts | March 15, 2012
A short blog today to thank our good friends at State Farm Insurance — the local folks who have supported us for years. We just received a check for their continued support in 2012. And, as always, we appreciate it. Here in South Florida’s Broward County, the nation’s sixth largest school district, these men help the Humanity Project to help our community and beyond. They sponsor our free monthly podcasts, which now are promoted nationally by Google. And they contribute to our efforts to stop school bullying with our acclaimed Anti-bullying Through The Arts program.
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Bob Knotts | February 28, 2012
This morning I went for a walk around my neighborhood in South Florida and spotted a bumper sticker on an old car. It read, “Some Things DO Change.” I got thinking about how refreshing that reminder is in today’s world, during a time when it’s so easy to feel discouraged. Because the bumper sticker has it right. Some things do change — many things, actually. Just look around for yourself. In my own lifetime, black people, women and others have gained a level of social equality that once seemed a distant hope. Now lesbians and gays, bisexuals and transgender people are slowly acquiring the same rights. More countries around the world offer greater democracy. There are fewer wars, believe it or not. The list goes on and on. Some things do change, truly.
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Bob Knotts | February 18, 2012
As you may have read in the previous post, “I Care!” is the Humanity Project’s new teen driver safety program, being created with a grant from State Farm. We’re working with a very smart, energetic group of student writers, photographers and graphic artists at South Plantation High School in Plantation, Florida. Their teacher, Sarah Lerner, has been wonderfully helpful as we get into the nuts and bolts of our work. This week, I just wanted to update you briefly on our progress.
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Bob Knotts | February 7, 2012
Today, the Humanity Project announces the creation of an ambitious new program that brings the organization into an entirely different area of community involvement: teen driver safety. Funded by a generous grant from State Farm Insurance, the Humanity Project’s “I Care!” program will adopt a totally fresh approach to connect with our youngest drivers. Instead of the usual (and ineffective) scare tactics, “I Care!” will use teen-to-teen social connections to teach greater concentration and cooperation on the highways. The program’s full name is “I Care! Safe Driving with the Three Cs: Concentrate, Cooperate … Come Home Safe!”
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Bob Knotts | February 4, 2012
This will be a brief post … in part because we will be telling you about something very exciting on Tuesday in this space. So consider this a teaser of sorts. The Humanity Project will announce a major new program that we’re developing now with a national grant from our good friends at State Farm Insurance.
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Bob Knotts | December 16, 2011
They say gratitude is among the more important qualities for human well-being. At the Humanity Project, we believe that’s true. And we indeed are grateful at this organization for many things — including the wonderful friends we have. One of those friends is Children’s Services Council of Broward County. For the fourth consecutive year, CSC is sponsoring the anti-bullying efforts of the Humanity Project. Today, we’re sending out our most sincere gratitude to everyone there. Thank you!
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