Sustainable Islands Technology Initiative

Sustainable Islands
Technology Initiative

Stone Soup Leadership Institute


Stone Soup for the World: Life-Changing Stories of Everyday Heroes
is a blueprint for building a better world.

Its heroes are legendary people and ordinary folks who, by conviction,
imagination, innovation, persistence, hard work, and moral or physical
courage, have lifted their neighbors and their communities.

They challenge each of us to respond in kind.

Walter Cronkite


In the last century we’ve shown the world how
we can attack and solve perplexing problems with technology.

Imagine if we were to apply that same intellectual power to solving the greatest
problems the world faces – poverty, overpopulation, pollution, medical
insufficiency, and our dependence on nonrenewable energy resources.
Now is a good time to launch a bold new global initiative.
This could be our version of the putting a man on the moon.
It's time to take action -- and chart the course for our future.

Walter Cronkite

The Stone Soup
Leadership Institute
Pledge
We pledge to a new kind of
engaged activism

To be a force for positive change of
the world;

To improve the conditions of our
neighborhoods, our countries, and
the world; through individual
actions and working with others.

Together we will forge new
directions for the global economy,
bridge the gap between the haves
and the have nots and strive to
build a more peaceful and
sustainable world.

Walter Cronkite
Celebration of Heroes
New York City, November 2, 2002

Company Overview
 Founded in 1997 on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, the Stone Soup Leadership Institute
collaborates with organizations and companies to develop public/private partnerships that
build healthier communities and a sustainable world. The Institute has created leadership
trainings, youth leadership initiatives, two demonstration projects and special projects in eight
communities. The Institute’s Annual Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development
trains youth leaders from islands around the world to develop a 2020 vision for our collective future.

 For the last 16 years, the Institute has been turning hope into action -- from Stone Soup gatherings to
a best-selling book and educational curriculum; from national grassroots educational campaigns to
celebrity events honoring local heroes; from training teachers to organizing community initiatives;
from empowering multicultural youth to developing a four-year demonstration project. We expose
their young minds to inspiring leaders, by opening doors and expanding their horizons.

 The Institute’s book and Educational Curriculum, Stone Soup for the World: Life-Changing
Stories of Everyday Heroes (Pan Y Vino Para El Camino) has been called a “handbook for
humanitarians” and “a blueprint for building a better world.” This flagship bi-lingual service-learning
program harnesses the energy, enthusiasm and idealism of youth with timely tools – using a values-
oriented, multidisciplinary approach that teaches process-oriented critical thinking skills; makes
learning meaningful to multicultural students; enhances language arts, civics and social studies;
engages students in citizenship and leadership. Piloted by the YMCA of the USA, it has been used in
120 communities to prepare a new generation of multicultural leaders to address economic,
environmental and social challenges of the 21st century.

Innovative Education Model
The Heart of the Matter
 At the heart of the Institute’s work is the process of engaging young people in all aspects that results
in true youth empowerment and leadership. The action-oriented research process results in
building strategic cross-cultural, multidisciplinary alliances who work together to address key issues.

 We use an inclusive community planning process that ensures local ownership in assessing their
needs as well as the community’s resources to address them.

 We’ve provided training and technical assistance to cities in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Oakland,
Hawaii, British Virgin Islands, the Philippines, Vieques, Puerto Rico, Martha’s Vineyard. Youth
leaders from Nantucket and Caribbean islands of Jamaica, Bahamas and St. Vincent have served as
delegates to the Institute’s Annual Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development.

 The Institute uses all mediums to maximize learning: published books and curriculums; audio
tapes with celebrities reading stories; videotapes with Walter Cronkite and “Hero Reports” on people
in the curriculum; videos featuring youth leaders in College Prep Programs, Job Shadow Day,
developing Sustainable Development Maps, Tours and 2020 Reports and public speaking at Annual
Walter Cronkite Awards Ceremony.

Sustainable Technology Initiative for Island Youth
Our Plan: 2012-2015
The Institute is developing partnerships to inspire, educate, motivate and connect
youth leaders around the world. Our plan is to:

 Conduct annual Youth Leadership Summits with our two youth leadership
initiatives on Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii;

 Develop Sustainability-In-Action Projects and a vision for each island's future.

 An online action learning community of youth leaders from around the world.

 Develop a Sustainable Leadership Certificate at a major university;

 Build technological infrastructure for Open Source and online university.

 Conduct monthly video conferencing with island youth to share their progress,
trouble shoot challenges.

International Advisory Council
and Board of Directors

Our International Advisory Council
 Honorary Chair Emeritus: Walter Cronkite
Our Board of Directors
 Dr. Noel Brown, President
Friends of the United Nations  Marsha Reeves-Jews
 Arun Gandhi, Gandhi’s grandson
 Cesar L. Chavez, Radio Campesina  Hulas King, Siemens GO PLM
 Marilyn Concepcion Cheyne, Latino Affairs,
Congresswoman Rosa DeLora  Robert J. Corcoran
 Josue Cruz, Co-Founder, Vieques Youth Leadership  Nane Alejandrez
Initiative
 Edward James Olmos, Olmos Productions Kristen  Marianne Larned
Pauly, The Prince Charitable Trust
 Isabel Valdes, Latin social marketing leader
 Dr. Muhammad Yunus
(2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner)

Sustainable Hawaii
Youth Leadership Initiative
Nominators for Youth
Leadership Summit 2012
 Mayor Billy Kenoi’s Malama Awards for Sustainability  Lisa Faulkner-Inouye, County of Hawai'i Office of the Attorney
 Art Souza, West Hawai’i Department of Education  Charlene Masuhara, Counselor, Hilo High School
Superintendent  Nem Lau’s Career & Technical Education colleagues
 Kumu Keala Ching’s Na Wai Iwi Ola (NWIO) Foundation  Ben Duke, West Hawaii Explorations Academy
graduates  Susan Maddox, Friends of the Future
 Nancy Redfeather, The Kohala Center, Konawaena High School  Lori Sasaki, DOE Workforce Development Division
student
 Michael Kramer and Andrea Dean, HALLE
 David Fuertes’ Ka Hana No’eau, Partners in Development
Foundation  Kate Mulligan, Hualalani Academy
 Kona Rotary’s New Generations, Interact student  Trina Nahm-Mijo, Kea’au Youth Business Center
 Guy Toyama, Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority  Larry Czerwonka, Big Island Empowerment
 Douglass Bartlett’s Na Kahumoku, Kealakehe Intermediate School  Grif Frost, Rotary Club of Hilo Bay
alumni  Michael Kramer, Hawaii Alliance Local Living Economy
 Greg Harrs, Spirit of Aloha/Environmental Leadership Club at (HALLE)
Kealakehe High School  Andrea Dean, Sustainable Initiatives LLC
 Mitch Roth and Paula De Morales, Prosecutor’s Offices (Youth  Marcia Sakia, Vice Chancellor, University of Hawaii Hilo
Action Summit)  Beth Sanders, Kealakekua/Hawaii Community College’s
 Kuelana Green Committee of Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce Running Start Program
 Grace Chao, Sustainability and Economics, Connections High  Grayson Leigh Ghen, Sustainability Coordinator, Hawaii
School Community College, Hilo
 Christy Schumann, Kau i ka Malie Learning Center, Kealakehe  Jack Zimmerman, Hamakua Youth Center
High School  Susan Cox, Green Power Girl
 Craig "Bo" Kahui, Executive Director, La'i'opua 2020  Teri Sugg, Awakening the Dreamer, Hawi
 Ka’iulani Pahi’o, Kanu o ka ‘Āina Learning ‘Ohana/Nä Lei  West Hawaii Sustainable Agriculture Skill Panel Forum
Na'auao, Native Hawaiian Charter School Alliance  North Hawaii Youth Coalition
 Ming Wei Koh, Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s Energy Lab  Deanna Kackley, North Hawaii Drug Free Coalition
 Mrs. Lovato, Culinary Instructor, Konawaena High School
 Holly Algood, West Hawaii Mediation Center
 Anne Anderson, Girls Scouts of Hilo

Sustainable Technology Initiative
for Island Youth

 After sixteen years of working in eight communities, we are creating the
Institute’s Sustainable Technology Initiative for Island Youth to
interactively connect youth leaders in these communities and those
using our educational curriculum in 120 communities and people
around the world, through our Portal.

 The Institute’s Portal responds to the great demand for our
Educational Curriculum and training programs in island and under-
privileged communities.

The Institute’s 7th Annual
Youth Leadership
Summit for Sustainable
Development
Beach Mural for Hands
Across the Sand in
conjunction with 900
communities across the country
in support of the people in the
Gulf Oil Crisis.

Held on the first day of the
Youth Leadership Summit on
Lucy Vincent Beach where the
first “magic stone” was found
that led to the book and the
Institute.

Hawaiian youth
delegates at the 8th
Annual Youth
Leadership Summit
for Sustainable
Development 2012
• Learn about sustainable best
practices on islands of Hawaii,
Martha’s Vineyard, Caribbean.

• Highlight model programs in
sustainable agriculture, building,
culture, and energy.

• Youth learn how to develop a
can-do spirit and how to make it
happen action plan.

• Match young people’s interests
and skills with their vocational,
college, career goals.

• Learn how to develop a 5 year-
action plan to develop
Sustainability-In-Action plans

A’ohe hana nui ka alu’ia
No task is too big when done
together.

Sustainable Technology Portal
 Vision: To develop an online accredited university to build a sustainable world.
 Mission: To create an Online Education Resource Center: millions of youth, teachers
and their communities will enjoy the inspirational stories, exchange creative ideas and
explore ways to engage others to work together to improve their world.
 To create a virtual learning-in-action global village to connect, inform and involve
youth in project-based learning and social entrepreneurship projects in 120 countries.
 To meet the need for training young and emerging leaders to address the economic,
environmental, social issues of the 21st century.
 To prepare a STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) knowledge-based
workforce and community development through an online portal connecting youth
leaders of the world.
 To collaborate with the Institute’s team of education, environmental and international
leaders. Youth and communities throughout the world will be able to access our capacity
building training; increase their ability to develop social entrepreneurship projects
and online with Sustainability-In-Action projects.

Our objective for our Global Technology Portal is to reach as many community
stakeholders to interface through the following capacities:

 E-learning capability;
 Project based; social network capacity; through collaborative projects;
 Webinars, social media interface - similar to Facebook;
 Base Camp HQ-online project collaborative tool;
 Blogs and video for mentorships;
 Open-sourcing of our educational tools; curriculum, programs, books;
 Video courses, live courses, Interactive;
 Social entrepreneurship projects to address environmental issues of our times.
 Interactive simulation games: to learn how/why people from the book became
heroes like Paul Newman creating Newman’s Own;
 Share experiences, approaches, insights at local, national, international levels.
 Smart Card Access for membership and password sensitive.

Sustainable Technology Portal: Our Goals
 To create a Global e-Learning Resource Center Portal to facilitate an interactive global village where people communicate via
our website portal and videoconferencing. The Institute’s Educational Curriculum is hands-on and replicable in a wide variety
of locations, especially inner cities with diminishing federal funds and those competing for limited resources in global economy.

 The Institute’s faculty integrates creative and effective uses of appropriate pedagogy and technologies to enhance student
learning. We foster a culture to promote collaboration, collegiality, and mentoring to enhance the scholarship and practice of
teaching to impact learning. We want to assess the impact on learning and teaching via the creative and effective integration of
appropriate technologies through a variety of techniques. By collaborating with our team of pioneers in education and
international development with Internet and new media, we will strengthen capacity building training, increase our ability to
develop partnership projects and create online communities-in-action with socially positive projects. By creating an online
social and educational community, it could become a beacon of hope for the development of young leaders around the globe.

 The unique combination of the Institute’s inspiring and empowering content in a proven educational curriculum with
experiential learning model (live interaction with grass root heroes in the curriculum) creates a powerfully transformational
program that catalyzes individual, group and community people-powered development for the good of humanity. By training
local people to use these educational tools, it addresses the urgency of now issue while ensuring local ownership. This is the
only proven educational curriculum in English and Spanish with a ten-year track record that effectively reaches the
disenfranchised and creates a positive emotional attachment among users and captures their attention in an exciting strategy
for using technology for the good of all humanity.

 Young people from the poorest communities with access to our tools are able to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles
to realize their dreams and transform their communities. In partnership with our on-line media partners and innovative
technology, we will create a virtual learning-in-action global village to connect, inform and involve young people in project-
based learning in 120 countries. Young people around the world.

 By expanding to include broadband and interactive technology, the Institute can use its Curriculum to promote the effective
application of distance learning strategies to maximize access, equity, and quality of educational resources for teachers/trainers
and learners of all ages including desktop videoconferencing, podcasting, Internet radio broadcasts, blogging and new
technologies for Cybermentoring with Talkshoe, an online service to enable people to easily create, join, and listen to live
interactive discussions.

Sustainable Technology Portal:
Educational Tools
 Educational tools: cost-effective strategy to maximize distribution
 Educational curriculums: Stone Soup for the World, Stone Soup for the New World, and STEM
 Partners: community technology centers, non-profit organizations, schools and universities
 Learning communities in collaboration with Institute’s education, environmental leaders.
 Users – connected around the world
 YMCA of the USA: pilot program (1999), users nationwide
 Education Curriculum users in 120 communities around the world
 Youth Leadership Summit delegates from Hawaii, Nantucket and Caribbean islands
 The Institute’s Initiatives: inner cities, island communities and global:
Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, Oakland, Cincinnati, Vieques, PR and Virgin Gorda, BVI

Proposed Online Programs
 Hero of the Month
 Interactive Youth Leadership Development Curriculum
 On-Line Student Chat Rooms:
 People solving local & global challenges
 Call-to-action: linked with TV, radio & print media
 Web events: exciting dialogues with youth around the world
 Action Think Tank: global education resource links leaders
 Project/Community Planning
 On-line Mentoring
 Action Plan Development
 Train-the-Trainer Leadership: video-based, certification, interactive, project-based
 2020 Report on Sustainable Development
 Annual Youth Leadership Summits on Sustainable Development
 Sustainability-In-Action/Social Entrepreneurship Projects
 Smart Card Accessibility

Sustainable Technology Portal: Our Partners
Our Goal: to use the Institute’s Educational Curriculum and tools with multiple sites to address the
social, economic and environmental issues facing islands and places around the world.

East Coast Hub: Martha’s Vineyard
 The Institute’s History: The Institute was founded on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in 1997. The
book and educational curriculum were written on the Island and piloted with the schools. The
Vineyard was the Institute’s first initiative: we developed numerous events and service projects that
benefited the community.
 Culturally diverse island with strong African American community, Wampanoag federally
registered Tribe, large Brazilian community, emerging Jamaican community, diverse seasonal
community.
 Sustainable Development: strong community of farms and environmental organizations who are
committed to preserving the quality of life and island resources.
 Economic challenges: Martha’s Vineyard is the poorest county in Massachusetts with long-term
poverty, high levels of at-risk behaviors, fragmented community, struggling seasonal economy, rising
unemployment. Seasonal residents and tourists: represent progressive elite of North America.
 Martha’s Vineyard Commission completed a 5 year community planning process to create the
Island Plan, a Vision for 2050. They are eager to have youth envision THEIR future on the island.
 Resources: Martha’s Vineyard Community Television.

for Island Youth
West Coast Hub: Big Island, Hawaii

• SHYLI Youth Leadership Forum: January, 2013

• Our Partners include:
Kanu o ka ‘Āina New Century Public Charter School, Kūhiō Village, Waimea
Ka Hana No’eau, Partners in Development Foundation
Nä Lei Na’auao Native Hawaiian Charter School Alliance

• Special Project: Resolution #25 = Sustainable Education in all Hawaii schools.

• Develop State-of-the Art Sustainability Curriculum for Hawaii Schools.

• Applied sustainable research projects = SHYLI Youth + UH students.

• Konawaena Hawaiian Immersion School

• University of Hawaii, Hilo/Honoka’a

Sustainable Hawai’i Youth
Leadership Initiative: 2010-2012
The Sustainable Hawai’i Youth Leadership Initiative’s mission is to train young people to become leaders to realize their
dreams and build a more sustainable island and world.

In 2011-2012, the Institute conducted a community assessment by meeting with 50 Hawai’i Island leaders to learn about issues
facing Island youth and conduct an inventory of existing sustainable programs.

SHYLI emerged from 17-year old Hawaiian youth Wainani Traub who served as Hawai’i’s first youth delegate to the 7th Annual
Youth Leadership Summit in 2011. Wai made a presentation on Hawai’i’s innovative sustainability initiatives and learned from
other island youth from the Caribbean and U.S.

Upon her return, Wai was featured in the press and was the only Hawaiian youth to speak at the APEC Voices of the Future
Summit in Hawaii. In the fall 2011, we piloted SHYLI’s program in partnership with the West Hawaii Exploration Academy’s
Green Team. We conducted weekly workshops; created a logo; and produced a video that was premiered at a community
gathering at the West Hawaii Civic Center.

In January 2011, we conducted a Leadership Intensive and a Sustainable Hawaii Tour to sustainable agriculture, sustainable
building, sustainable business, and sustainable energy. We’ve met with community leaders and learned about issues facing Island
youth.

In June, five youth delegates were nominated by over 50 community leaders to attend the 8th Annual Youth Leadership Summit
for Sustainable Development. Each youth prepared a presentation on sustainable agriculture, sustainable architecture, sustainable
business, sustainable culture and sustainable environment.

Fall 2012: SHYLI youth leaders develop their Sustainability-In-Action Projects with their schools and organizations.

Sustainable Hawaii
Youth Leadership Initiative: 2013
SHYLI Youth Leadership Forum: January 19, 2013

 SHYLI Youth Leadership Forum will bring together youth delegates, their nominating organizations with Hawaii’s decision makers from
business, government, education and the community.

 SHYLI youth will share their sustainable initiative presentations, the lessons learned at the Summit, their Sustainability-In-Action projects
and their vision for a sustainable Hawaii to the Island’s decision makers.

 Welcome: Ka'iulani Pahio
 Hawaiian Blessing: Makana Tavares & SHYLI Youth
 Messages from Hawaiian leaders: Mayor Billy Kenoi, Senator-Elect Mazie Hirono, Robert Lindsey Jr.
 Sponsorship Recognition
 Dedication to Guy Toyama: Ian Kitajima, Oceanit
 Video: SHYLI youth at 2012 Youth Leadership Summit
 SHYLI Youth Delegates Presentations
 LUNCH – David Fuertes, Ka Hana No’eau, Partners in Development
 Tour of KANU + SHYLI Exhibits
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 Small Group Sessions with SHYLI Youth Sustainability-In-Action Projects
 1. Sustainability Education Resolution: Trevor Tanaka
 2. Recycling Petition: Allie Kitchens
 3. Cultural Sustainability Exhibit: Makana Tavares
 4. SHYLI Forum: Connecting Hawaiian Youth & Leaders: Kynan Kawai
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 Reporting to the Large Group
 Closing Blessing

Sustainable Hawaii
Youth Leadership Initiative: Outcomes
 SHYLI is making progress towards our mission of training youth people to envision and share their
vision and develop sustainability-in-action projects;
 Emerging partnerships with local organizations and funders; letters of support from Mayor, Governor, U.S.
Senate;
 Capacity building training for existing organizations;
 Increased opportunities for Hawaiian youth;
 Integrated approach to honor Hawaiian culture;
 Donor appreciation and positive media recognition.
 By engaging Hawaiian youth in envisioning, planning and creating their future, SHYLI helps them to
be more hopeful and invested in their future. As a result, we strive to reduce negative social-economic issues
of apathy, school drop out, drug abuse, and homicides by car accidents.
 Youth are empowered to be spokespersons and representatives of their islands -- learning how to
develop action plans, troubleshoot challenges, prepare presentations.
 By giving them state-of-the-art leadership tools and training, they can become lightening rods for change,
moving through bureaucracies and engaging traditional leaders.
 SHYLI’s Forum creates a multiplier effect for future generations and long-term sustainable
development.

The Institute’s
Demonstration Project Outcomes
 Transforming at-risk youth to youth leaders with a vision for their future.

 Reducing School Drop Outs: We invite all young people to dream about what they want for their lives,
their future and the future of their island. We motivate and direct youth to education and opportunities; connect to
the world of work through mentors, apprenticeships and internships.

 Each one, Teach One: we invite everyone to share their gifts with our youth - young and old. We train
emerging leaders in their 20's to work with teens, who in turn work with younger children.

 Reduce Teen Pregnancy by Increasing Positive Role Models and supporting the dreams of teen models
with the mission of "beauty with a purpose." Increase youth self-esteem through education/opportunities.

 Reducing Unemployment and Government Dependency by Increasing Skills: We train people to
become entrepreneurs and reward them recognition in the community and with travel opportunities. We train people
in computers and technology to connect them with the world of opportunities.

 Reducing Petty Crime by Bridging the Cultural Divide: We appeal to the enlightened self-interest of
the business community to get involved with training the young people of the island. As part of our quest to connect
young people with caring adults, we invite everyone in our community to serve as mentors. Statistics show that
young people who have a caring adult in their lives are more likely to succeed.

Our Future Doctors!
Participating in Job
Shadow Day
The Institute’s Annual Job Shadow
Day gives young people a positive
experience of the world of work,
promote a good work ethic, and
develop longer-lasting
relationships that contribute to
the economy.

It’s a good investment in their
future and ours. This leads to
internships, apprenticeships, jobs
and careers in a creating a more
sustainable economy.

 The Institute’s Educational Curriculum catalyzes individual, group and community
people-powered development for the good of humanity.

 By training local people to use these educational tools, it addresses the urgency of now
issue while ensuring local ownership.

 The Institute’s train-the-trainer model creates a positive emotional attachment
among users and captures their attention in an exciting strategy for using technology for
the good of all humanity.

 Youth around the world are inspired by VYLI’s 2020 Report for Sustainable
Development and imagine how they could participate in this kind of a life-changing
adventure that will positively change their lives and the world.

 The Institute’s Global Technology Initiative will create a virtual learning-in-action
global village to connect, inform and involve young people in project-based learning in
120 countries.

Leading Edge Breakthrough Content
 The only proven educational curriculum in English and Spanish with a 12-year
track record that effectively reaches the disenfranchised and transforms
young lives into future leaders.

 A unique combination of inspiring and empowering content in a proven
educational curriculum with experiential learning model: live interaction
with heroes in the book.

 Young people from the poorest communities with access to our tools are able to
overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to realize their dreams and
transform their communities.

 Documented evidence of programming which powerfully provide children
with transformational experiences.

Sustainable Portal: Creating Distribution “Hubs”
Our Goal: to use the Institute’s Educational Curriculum with multiple sites to address the
social, economic and environmental issues facing the Caribbean.

East Coast Hub: Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative: www.mvyli.org
 In partnership with non-profit organizations, youth will develop Sustainability-In-Action
projects that contribute to the Island’s cultural, economic and environmental balance.
Youth Council will prepare youth to serve as leaders.

West Coast Hub: Hawaii proposed with the University of Hawaii (under discussion)

 By collaborating with the Institute’s team of education, environmental and international
development leaders, educators will be able to access our capacity building training;
increase their ability to develop partnership projects and create online communities-in-
action with socially positive projects.

Global E-Learning Resource Center Portal
 We will make the Institute’s Educational Curriculum accessible to more teachers by leveraging technology: computer based
training, satellite video conferencing, teacher training and extranet to enable students and instructors to access the entire curriculum via the
internet. Instructors will download, print and use the curriculum to lead their students. Through on-line chats and web-casts, students will
be inspired to share their own stories, exchange creative ideas and explore ways to engage others to improve their world.

 We will redesign the Curriculum for web-based learning and interaction to provide faster, easier updates and enable
instructors/facilitators/students to immediately receive the benefits of the program. We will design the Institute’s on-line interactive portal
as an Interactive Leadership Development Curriculum and Action Think Tank linking grass root leaders with online chats to meet their
specific needs to implement the curriculum.

 By collaborating with our team of pioneers in education and international development with Internet and new media, we will strengthen
capacity building training, increase our ability to develop partnership projects and create online action learning communities with socially
positive projects. We will develop self-evaluation measurement tools with built-in checkpoint surveys that re-enforce learning and provide
continual process improvement in preparing future leaders.

 Schools: develop critical thinking skills, bridges cultural-digital divide, prepares future leaders;
 Educators enhance lessons plans to teach character building, citizenship and leadership development;
 Teachers in low-performing schools: supplemental instruction in reading, language arts, and civics;
 After-school programs use for coordinated curricula and activities;
 Tutors/ Title I/VII in reading improvement programs seek inspirational educational materials;
 Service-learning coordinators meet community service mandates and promote life-long involvement;
 Citizens/community organizers to prepare them to address issues in their communities.
 Community colleges and universities train students to build public-private partnerships;
 Volunteer Centers and community organizations train, motivate and retain new volunteers;
 Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, YMCA: inspire and train staff and volunteers to maximize their gifts;
 Companies for employees who serve as tutors and/or mentors in 1 on 1 or group programs;
 U.S History professors expand students respect for volunteerism, empowerment, philanthropy, NGO’s, corporate social responsibility;
 Leaders in new democracies study the building blocks for a democracy and sustainable development.

Martha’s Vineyard Sustainability Map Team
To be presented to Town of Tisbury’s Green Communities

STI: Educational Tools Under Development
 Online launch bi-lingual book/curriculum online: Stone Soup for the New World: Life-Changing Stories of Young
Everyday Heroes -- features 100 visionaries, pioneers, trail blazers & trouble-shooters, social entrepreneurs and future
leaders with a new vision and new direction for the planet.

 Technologically savvy organizations like Taking ITGlobal, Avaaz, Global Youth Action Net, Cesar Chavez who uses
technology to carry on his grandfather’s dream of educating millions of Latin farmworkers; Free the Children, Active
Element, Youth Ventures and Youth for Environmental Sanity. We will meet young people with what they want: more
instant and collaborative technology: Blogs, wikis, IM, Twitter and an internal portal with social networking
capabilities similar to LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace -- and in a controlled environment should someone ask a
question, the whole network community helps to solve the problem, from a global and diverse perspective. We will
take on projects, share our progress and lessons learned as we move forward towards our goals “stone by stone.”

 Develop the Institute’s third bi-lingual book/curriculum online: STEM (Science, Technology, Math and
Engineering) with applied learning green projects

 Twenty-four minority scientists will be selected to represent a wide range of cutting edge applications of science and
technology. Chapters will have two components. The first will be a human interest story about their early life, school
science, technology, engineering and math experiences and career path of the scientist, and the second, will be a
simple age-appropriate introduction to the scientific and technological concepts that form the basis of the scientist’s or
technologist’s work or research.

 As part of the Institute’s commitment to bridge the digital divide, and provide equitable access to advanced
technologies for underserved communities and increased access to the educational, cultural, civic, socioeconomic
opportunities, we will work with groups of teens to design the Institute’s interactive curriculum to engage millions of
young people of color in project-based learning with green projects that address urgent issues on the planet. This will
contribute to the discussion of careers and strategies for producing the next generation of innovators in STEM fields.
In collaboration with companies on the cutting edge of inventing products and strategies to reduce global warming.

BUDGET
Expenses Income
 Equipment
 Digital video cameras  Foundations
 Laptop computers
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Skype video + headsets
Smart Cards  Corporate
 Broadband for facilities (wireless)

 Staff
 Government
 Executive Director
 Global Technology Director  Individuals
 Portal Developer
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Computer Software Programmer
Database Development  Earned Income
 Grant Developer
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Project Coordinator: Martha’s Vineyard
Project Coordinator: Vieques, PR
 In-Kind
 Administrative Assistant
 Research Assistant
 Evaluator
 Administration
 Office, communications
 Travel, lodging, meals
 Educational supplies

Sustainable Hawaii Youth
Leadership Initiative: 2013
In 2013 The Institute will host a mi-Summit
for Hawaiian youth and our partners.

Produce educational videos on Sustainable
Hawai’i Map and Tour with representatives
from five islands

Develop Hawaii 2020 Report on Sustainable
Development.

We will train these youth leaders with
public speaking skills and character
building and leadership skills to make
effective presentations to the local, national
and international communities.

Ultimately, youth leaders will work
together to develop a vision, map and tour
on sustainability on five islands.

This will be a global model for how other
young people can work together to engage
people and their leaders to protect,
preserve and re-energize their communities
to build sustainable islands.

…Eight Years In The Making
 The Institute’s Global Technology Initiative has been in the planning process for eight years. We are eager to develop
the technological infrastructure to expand our impact and enable millions of people to use our educational tools.
Here is an overview of our progress:

 2004: San Francisco State University’s MBA Marketing students chose as a case study:
Recommendations: target Spanish market with new book; use technology to reach under-privileged
 2004-2007: The Institute’s demonstration project: Vieques Youth Leadership Initiative (VYLI)
 2005: Microsoft Unlimited Potential grant received for VYLI Technology Initiative
 2006: VYLI newsletters created by youth and distributed; designed website: www.vyli.com
 2005-2007: Extensive process to secure VYLI building to house GTI in Vieques.
 2007: National search for possible Spanish partner: ASPIRA, HSF, NCLR
 2007: Institute with VYLI received NTIA grant for planning process for 1st radio station in Vieques
 2008: GTI Director Marsha Reeves-Jews presentation on NTIA grant to Vieques community.
 2008: GTI Planning Session in Baltimore with Ms. Jews and Ms. Larned.
 2008: GTI Planning session/presentations: Virgin Gorda, BVI with Siemens Board member, Hulas King.
 2008: Case study: San Francisco State University’s MBA Marketing
Recommendations: engage youth to design/develop GTI using interactive technology and new media;
Market to other youth to inspire them to join in changing their lives and building a healthier world.
 2009: Conducted Planning Sessions with technology leaders at four universities in CA, MA and BVI;
 2009: Develop GTI Phase I: Developed YouTube Channel at University of Massachusetts Boston’s Media Lab.
 2009: Approved as educational institution with unlimited YouTube capacity.
 2010: Develop partnership with Martha’s Vineyard Television Station to produce educational videos;
 2011: Produced videos of youth speeches from the 2nd Annual Walter Cronkite Awards Ceremony.
 2012: Hawaii Community College advisor Kamaka Gunderson attends 8th Annual Youth Leadership Summit.

2012 Online Education Resource Center

 The Institute’s Sustainable Technology Initiative’s Partners:
Martha’s Vineyard Community Television

 Training high school interns in new media skills;

 Youth are producing videos about MVYLI’s programs developing youth dreams
– College Prep & Field Trip Program, Job Shadow Day, NAACP Juneteenth
conference, Youth Leadership Summit. They are editing videos from the
Institute’s training programs from our other youth initiatives.

 The Institute is approved as an (unlimited usage) educational YouTube
Channel: stonesoupleaderinst

 Our web-based Stone Soup Library of the Institute’s curriculum and trainings
responds to the growing need for enriched educational digital content to cost-
effectively prepare students and educators to address the social, economic and
environmental issues of the 21st century.

Leadership Initiatives’ Accomplishments

Vieques Youth Leadership Initiative  Developed year-round after-school
program:
 Four-year bi-lingual demonstration project
using the Institute’s Spanish curriculum;  Cultural-Social Entrepreneurship, Eco-
Tourism, Sustainable Development and
Technology.
 Pan Y Vino Para El Camino to train young
and emerging leaders to build a new
 Technology Initiative: received grant from
Vieques; Microsoft Caribbean’s Unlimited Potential.
 The Brookings Institute’s report in 2004:
 VYLI youth leaders developed VYLI’s 2020
Puerto Rico is twice as poor as the poorest Report on Sustainable Development as a
state in the U.S. Vieques is the poorest in roadmap for their future. Presented to Puerto
Puerto Rico. VYLI report The Challenges Rican leaders, Caribbean Ministers and APEC
Facing Vieques Youth; Summit in Peru.

 Conducted annual Youth Leadership  Documented Progress on Video: VYLI
Summits with the Institute’s Spanish- Youth Dreams:
speaking faculty; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7mnxOu
VDUM

Organizations
Featured in Book/Curriculum
 ABC for Tots
 ACORN  MAD DADS
 Manhattan Country School
 American Poetry & Literacy Project
 MEDISEND
 Ames Rubber Corporation  National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
 Barrios Unidos  NationsBank
 Bethel New Life  Neve Shalom/Wahat Salam
 Beaverton Oregon Schools  New York Restoration Project
 Oxfam-America
 Bonneville International Corporate
 Pathways to Peace
 Bread for the World  Peace Corps
 Calvert Social Investment Fund  Rachel’s Bus Company
 City Year  Rebuilding Together
 Coop America  Seva Foundation
 Share Our Strength
 Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
 Shoah Foundation
 Duke Ellington School of the Arts  Special Olympics
 EDS  Target
 Facing History and Ourselves  TDIndustries
 Fellowship for Reconciliation  Teach for America
 Thanksgiving Coffee
 Focus: HOPE
 The Grameen Bank
 Food from the ‘Hood  The Names Project
 Foster Grandparents  The Natural Step
 Glide Memorial Church  TreePeople
 Gilroy Garlic Festival  United Farmworkers of America
 USA Harvest
 Habitat for Humanity
 Walking Shield
 Home Depot  Working Assets
 Independent Sector  White Dog Café
 INROADS  Working in the Schools
 KaBOOM!  World Hunger Organization
 YouthBuild
 KIPP
 LA Works
 Learning is Leadership
 Lessons Without Borders
 Literacy Volunteers of America

What Principals are
saying about the
experiences these
children will take with
them forever!

We are pleased to be chosen as a hub
for the Institute’s Global Technology
Initiative.

Our students will be the beneficiaries
of the innovative educational
technology this program has to offer.

They will develop their leadership
skills; broaden their perspective on
sustainable development; and develop
and present their vision for their life,
their island and their world.

We believe this partnership will
creatively contribute to the
education, social, environmental
challenges facing our island and the
world and create a powerful
multiplier effect for future
generations and long-term
sustainable development.

Steve Nixon, Principal,
Martha’s Vineyard Regional
High School

Sustainable Hawaii
Youth Leadership Initiative
PRESS

 Waimea Student Shares Sustainable  Sustainable Hawaii Youth Leadership Initiative
Summit Experiences, Honolulu Civil Beat, July Launches, Hawaii247.com, December 16, 2011
17, 2012

 Big Island Youth Lead the Way to  Calling All Big Island Youth For a Sustainable
Sustainability: Big Island Weekly: May, 2012 World, Honolulu Civil Beat, December 23, 2011
 Youth Inspire All to Dream of a New Earth,  Hawaiian youth leader speaks at APEC Voices
Ke Ola Magazine, March 2012 of the Future Summit, Honolulu Civil Beat,
November, 2011
 What Does Sustainability Mean to You?,  Hawaiian Youth Leader Speaks at APEC Voices
Honolulu Civil Beat, Feb 17, 2012 of the Future Summit, Hawaii247.com, Nov. 14,
2011
 SHYLI kicks off Sustainable Hawaii Tour,  Leadership from Coast to Coast, West Hawaii
Hawaii 24/7, January 24, 2012 Today, July 11, 2011
 Kona Student Joins Leadership Summit on
 Sustainable Hawaii Youth Leadership
Initiative Launched, West Hawaii Today, Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii247.com, July 15, 2011
December 15, 2011  My Life, My Island, My World, Honolulu Civil
Beat, July 18 2011

Stone Soup Leadership Institute Management Team: Marianne Larned

 Ms. Larned is the author of Stone Soup for the World: Life-Changing Stories of Everyday
Heroes and the Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s Educational Curriculum.
 She is the founding director of the Stone Soup Leadership Institute and has lived and
worked in communities around the world that are using the Institute’s Educational
Curriculum to train young and emerging leaders to realize their dreams for their lives,
their communities and the world.
 For 20 years Ms. Larned assisted corporate, education, government, civic and community
leaders to develop public-private partnerships and Healthy Communities Initiatives that
improved public education, health care and economic development.
 Her educational experience at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of
Education and the Rudolph Steiner Center in Scotland trained her to be an innovative
educator. Her graduate studies at Boston University and California State University
prepared her as an Organizational Development Consultant to catalyze major changes in
companies and communities to build a better world.

The Institute’s Sustainable Technology Initiative Management Team: Marsha Reeves-Jews

 Ms. Reeves-Jews is a leader in community technology development; especially with multicultural
communities. She has developed culturally respectful educational programming and technology
strategies for educational systems and community based organizations to address the digital divide
and innovative STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education technologies.
 Ms. Jews was Project Director at the Institute for Learning Technologies and the Institute for
Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College/ Columbia University overseeing three
government grants:
 Department of Commerce NTIA Harlem Renaissance 2001 Project; Department of Education
grant New York Online Neighborhood Network – portal development for 110 community
technology centers in the 5 boroughs of Manhattan; New York City Council grant for a
Community Technology Center (CTC) banks for a virtual online supply center. Ms. Jews was a
discussion participant on the working paper for The Morino Institute’s – From Access to Outcomes:
Raising Aspirations for Technology Initiatives in Low Income Communities;
 As the President/COO/Associate Publisher of Career Communications Group, Ms. Reeves-Jews
was the co-founder of the 14th Annual National Women of Color Technology Awards Conference- for
which she was awarded the Mercedes Benz, Visionary Award;
 Black Family Technology Awareness Week and La Familia Technology Awareness Week, both held
in over 400 cities around the world. and was featured in the inaugural edition of Who’s Who in Black
Baltimore 2010 as a Community Leader; and a Co-Author in the book, Incredible Business;
 A partial client lists includes: The City of Annapolis’ Minority and Small Business Economic
Development Enterprise; The Baltimore Empowerment Zone; National Urban League.
 As an Institute Board member, Ms. Jews was the event manager and mistress of ceremonies of the
Institute’s Celebration of Heroes with Walter Cronkite in New York City. She assisted the Institute’s
year-long planning in Baltimore; the Institute’s first technology grant from Microsoft Caribbean for
the Vieques Youth Leadership Initiative; served as development consultant for VYLI’s Radio Station.

Stone Soup Leadership Institute Sustainable Technology Initiative
Vieques Project Coordinator, Josue Cruz Morales
 Josue Cruz Morales is co-founder of the Vieques Youth Leadership Initiative. He has transformed his life
from a depressed 15 year old C-D student to 4.0 pre-law student where he graduated in the top 5 at the University of
Puerto Rico Carolina. He aspires to become the Mayor of Vieques. He will attend law school in fall 2011.

 In 2011 Josue served as Director of the 7th Annual Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development and
presented VYLI’s 2020 Report on Sustainable Development.

 In 2010 Josue won the first Walter Cronkite Award for his integrity, humility and leadership.

 In 2010 Josue served as youth delegate from Vieques at the Institute’s 6th Annual Youth Leadership Summit on
Sustainable Development. After the MVYLI Youth Summit, Josue was inspired to become a model for healthy living –
reducing his carbon footprint, by shutting off his 24/7 air-conditioning; eating vegetables every day – and loosing over
100 pounds. Josue also helped implement the first “Green Initiative” in Puerto Rico’s public schools where more
than 5,000 students and 150 teachers had their first contact with information about the environmental crisis and its
effects on his homeland and the world. He helped create more than 100 school gardens through the Island, so the
children could learn about producing their own healthy and environmentally- friendly food.

 In 2004 Josue researched and prepared the report The Challenges Facing Vieques Youth which served as VYLI’s
benchmark. He served as the VYLI Youth Technology Coordinator and conducted the community assessment for
the award-winning grant from Microsoft Caribbean’s Unlimited Potential, the Institute’s first Global Technology
Initiative. In 2005 Josue served as a VYLI Summer Institute’s Technology Coordinator training youth to use
Microsoft tools and creating VYLI’s series of newsletters. In 2006 he spearheaded VYLI’s Radio Initiative; welcomed
Cesar Chavez to the Institute’s 3rd Annual Summer Institute; traveled to California to train with the Cesar Chavez
Foundation’s Radio Campesina and with support from Cesar Chavez, Josue helped design VYLI’s website:
www.vyli.com. Josue then created his own radio show Community Radio Show in partnership with (Radio Puerto
Rico 740 AM). In 2007, he served on the Institute’s team to receive a federal grant (NTIA) to plan for a FCC
license for the first radio station in Vieques.

The Stone Soup Leadership Institute
for Island Youth

The Stone Soup Leadership Institute has
worked hard for over 16 years, impacting the
lives of children in island, rural and urban
communities; trying desperately to make a
difference, to change the lives of young
people, who through no fault of their own,
have seemingly lost their ability to dream
and to have hope.

Imagine what could happen if
we worked with the young people
to build a new world.

We need your assistance and invite you to
join us in this quest by sharing your time,
talents and resources.

Time is of the essence.

Thank You

Contact Us Visit Our Links
Sustainable Hawaii Youth www.shyli.org
Leadership Initiative
www.soup4worldinstitute.com
sustainhawaiiyouth@gmail.com

soup4worldinstitute@gmail.com
617.304.7821

Sustainable Islands Technology Initiative

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