I met Kelly Morrissey, the Associate Executive Director of Corazon de Vida Foundation, at the recent SNCR NewComm Forum 2008. Our meeting was the typical kind of thing I do; walk up to someone during the mixer and ask them what they'd like me to know about themselves. Most people provide their business title, company, organizational responsibilities, that kind of thing.
Every once in a while you find someone who recognizes they are more than what they do, that titles and companies and organizational responsibilities are quite transitory at best, kind of "what you do while you're waiting for your life to happen". Ms. Morrissey was one of the former. She told me about her "work" with the Corazon de Vida Foundation, a 501 c3 nonprofit organization founded by Hilda Pacheco-Taylor in 1994.
The purpose of Corazon de Vida (and by extension Ms. Morrissey)? Simple. The CDV is committed to empowering and changing the lives of the orphaned and abandoned children in Baja.
It's been a while since I wrote about The Village, how people are using the power of the internet to create communities that do work for others.
Please give Corazon de Vida Foundation a look, and thanks.
Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on this and other topics.
Upcoming Trainings:
- Know How Someone Is Thinking in 10 Seconds or Less Half-day training at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, 13 June 08
- International Communication Association's Communicating for Social Impact, the 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 22-26, 2008
- SUNY Marketing Professionals Conference at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, 11-13 June 08
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