April 2008
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Work Schedule for Ashley’s Balloons
Posted by Ashley on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Ashley's Balloons
Chick-Fil-A Founder Honored for His Volunteer Service
Posted by Ashley on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Feature Story, Non-profit News
S. Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-Fil-A chain restaurants, was honored by President Bush with the President’s Call to Service Award at the White House April 15th, 2008 for his “life-long commitment to volunteer service.”
The President’s Call to Service Award is presented to recipients who have accumulated over 4,000 hours of volunteer community service. Mr. Cathy has dedicated well over that to numerous endeavors throughout his lifetime. He has actively participated in the health of the community by helping young people achieve their potential, as well as helping couples strengthen their marriages.
He has taught Sunday school to 13-year-old young men for almost 50 years. He also founded the Winshape Foundation in 1984 which reaches out to people to nurture and encourage them to be successful parts of the community. The Winshape Foundation offers annual summer camps for boys and girls, and marriage and corporate retreats for adults. Winshape has also added foster homes, and a challeng/ropes course to their grounds at Berry College. Recently Winshape began sponsoring domestic and international missions trips to reach young people in the worldwide community.
S. Truett Cathy is much more than just the successful owner of the “nation’s second-largest quick-service chicken restaurant”, he is a light and blessing to the non-profit community through his lifelong dedication to volunteer service. He has taken his business and service skills to a whole new level that reaches beyond the excellent service Chick-Fil-A offers to its patrons.
“He is a great example of a wealthy, successful business man who has been blessed by God and uses those blessings as opportunties to bless the community in so many ways,” said Ashley Watkins, a Non-profit Major at Southeastern University. “He is an inspiration to people who want to be successful even though they are going into the non-profit sector.”
Below is a video interview of S. Truett Cathy from CNN as he talks about combining business skills and faith:
What in the World is S.I.F.E. ?
Posted by Ashley on 15 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Feature Story, Non-Profit Organizations, Non-profit News
The 2007-2008 Academic Year marked the beginning of a new club on Southeastern University’s expanding campus: S.I.F.E. This club has recently returned from their regional competition where they were awarded “Rookie of the Year” and “1st Runner Up” in this region for the incredible projects they implemented within our community.
S.I.F.E. is the acronym for “Students In Free Enterprise.” It “is an international organization that mobilizes university students around the world to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders” according to their website www.sife.org.
Although S.I.F.E. has just recently been added to Southeastern’s list of clubs, their impact on the school and the community of Lakeland can already be seen. This year alone they taught the elderly how to work with computers and the internet, taught third graders about the importance of the orange to Florida’s agriculture and hosted a 5K race to raise money for future projects.
“Next year we really want to expand on what we have done, do bigger projects and expand membership into other majors,” said Michael Hanlin, a Junior completing his business degree at Southeastern, who presented at the regional competition in Orlando this semester.
Annually S.I.F.E. clubs from colleges across the world come together to compete in regional, national, and world competitions. A team from each school presents their club’s projects from the year in front of a panel of business leaders who serve as judges for the competition. Teams are rewarded based upon the success of their projects and the professionalism of their presentation. In this way they are motivated to constantly improve their projects by competing with other schools.