I attended our local community foundation's annual meeting, when the typically bring in a luminary, a speaker to both tell a persuasive story with a connection to a local initiative and/or to spur our community to step up, to do more. This year was no different.Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone, told of being engaged block-by-block in trying to answer the question of "What Would It Take?" about how to help the lives of inner city NYC. His unceasing commitment to real goals - college graduation as the benchmark - make him a model reformer. (Pres. Obama has vowed to reproduce this model around the US.) To learn more, read Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes.
PS - Ironically, during a lunch that talked about economic hardship, trouble in the world, and rebuilding Harlem, our lunch consisted of the biggest slice of dessert I have ever seen (see photo).
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