"locals serving locals for 20 years."
(From 2017) Tomorrow we have our fourth Annual Storytelling Festival for the AmeriCorps programs of Maryland. Our hosts at Casa Maryland and Pablo Blank always provide a warm welcome in their amazing space. Each year, we try different things and…..
Its been a great summer to help the amazing 2015 2015 team finish their year of service and for Project Change to recruit a whole new team. There are no shortage of applicants and people young and old attracted to…..
Silver Spring school aids budding comic creators Fourth-grader Diana Franco makes a comic at JoAnn Leleck Elementary School at Broad Acres in Silver Spring during an after-school comics club on Monday. Ivan Mendez has been reading comic books since at…..
Over the weekend of March 19-21 2015, Jermarkus Booker, Caprecia Camper and Ben Eichberg traveled to Jerusalem to present a snapshot of their work as young leaders fighting the urgent issues of structural racism in American education. Invited by the…..
This Friday, the Project Change AmeriCorps team are having a full day of training on the latest methods of First Aid and CPR. The trainer is Richelle Barber from the YMCA. It is something you hope you never have to…..
The Project Change team have now completed three specialist workshops- that are core to our introductory curriculum. –Social Styles which calls itself the world’s most effective interpersonal skills training program on the market today. –Finding and Crafting a Story– A…..
The next training session for Project Change is with Businessman, Teacher and Mediation Coach, Gregory Robison. Greg was formerly the Director of The Writers Center in Bethesda where he taught specialist courses in the art of Personal Journaling. He is…..
At our last training, Project Change members were treated to a special workshop on storytelling from one of the area’s Master Tellers, Noa Baum. Noa is an internationally known performer with her solo production of “A Land Twice Promised” that…..
This Friday, October 10th, Project Change will enjoy the skills and experience of expert trainor and former Executive Manager of Lickheed Martin, John Dold. John Dold has practiced organization development consulting for more than twenty years. Most recently, John worked…..
Project Change is 13 years young in a year that celebrates AmeriCorps 20th birthday. While the organizations have been around a while, the power of service and its capacity to inspire is forever fresh. As we initiate a new class…..
On April 1st, the Women’s Studies, Girl Effect, International, and Student Service clubs will be collaborating in holding an event called “Once Upon a Prom” for some of the county’s most deserving, yet underprivileged, high school girls. Each invited girl…..