What started as a photo of a young man posted to the widely popular Humans of New York blog has grown into a crowdfunding effort that raised over $400,000 in one day for inner-city schoolchildren. Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the blog, teamed up with the principal of a Brooklyn middle school to launch an Indiegogo fundraiser that will pay for sixth graders to take yearly field trips to Harvard University. Why Harvard? I want every child who enters my school to know that they can go anywhere, and that they will belong,” the schools principal, Nadia Lopez, said on the blog. The campaigns initial goal of $100,000, enough to fund the program for three years, was shattered within hours of its launch. It all started Monday, when Stanton met a boy who attends the school. The boy told Stanton that the biggest influence in his life was his principal, Lopez, who takes an unconventional approach to student discipline. When we get in trouble, she doesnt suspend us, the boy explained to Stanton. She calls us to her office and explains to us how society was built down around us. And she tells us that each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built. And one time she made every student stand up, one at a time, and she told each one of us that we matter. Source: Mashable Full article: goo.gl/aj9Nke
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 22:56:40 +0000
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