Kids Helping Kids LeadershipAcademy, Inc.
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Kids Helping Kids has been a wonderful influence in my daughters life. Through Kids Helping Kids, children are taught leadership, responsibility, integrity, and commitment. They are encouraged not only to show kindness and help those in need, but to live their life with purpose and passion, while leading others to do the same. My daughter started attending the Kids Helping Kids Leadership Academy about a year and a half ago. During the monthly meetings she and her peers, have learned about and discussed various topics & projects such as: Integrity, standing up for yourself, nutrition & health, technology etiquette, commitment, gift giving on a budget, organization, manners & table etiquette, fundraising, reducing your carbon footprint-living green, pay it forward challenge, and even how to run a small lemonade stand business. During this time, she has also participated in KHK fundraising events to help fight child trafficking in Ghana,the orphans in Haiti, homeless children, and local children in need of expensive surgeries. Laura Page, founder Tyler Page's mother and current KHK executive director, is a wonderful leader and has been instrumental in teaching the kids to follow their own passions and to take action. This has led my 10 year old daughter to raise money for the music program at her elementary school, as well as start her own fundraising Project; Kids Take the Stage, with which she hopes to raise enough money to send local children in need to drama camp. Jordyn believes in KHK's mission so much that when she won 100 dollars in a local singing "idol" competition, she did not hesitate to turn the check over to Laura Page- right then and there. This past summer Jordyn and her best friend Kelsi participated in the KHK annual lemonade stand challenge. The girls contact the city on their own and arranged to host a booth at a weekly downtown festival. It was a great experience that not only helped raise money for charity but it also helped them build character and confidence, while teaching them how to run a business. I have seen her blossom through Kids Helping Kids. Meeting Eric Peasah, who works for IOM to help rescue children in Ghana, has been another profound life shaping experience for Jordyn. With such amazing and inspirational role models, programs, and support.... Kids Helping Kids is exactly the type of program our children need to help keep them on the right path. Another thing I should mention... here I just wrote what seems like a book of information, and I didn't even scratch the surface.. there is so much more to this program and I feel so blessed that Kids Helping Kids is here in our community.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Brentwood, CA.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
I would love to see the Kids Helping Kids leadership academy in EVERY community!
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
Did your volunteer experience have an effect on you? (teaching you a new skill, or introducing new friends, etc.)
Yes it opened my eyes and made me realize how resourceful and passionate children are, and how important it is to involve them in charitable activities early in life. Kids Helping Kids has provided my child with tools and confidence to help change the world!
How did this volunteer experience make you feel?
Positive and inspired
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2011
I met Laura Page through our church and it was an instant bond. Our principles, values and beliefs are very much aligned. I soon came to learn all about KHK and immediately wanted to get involved. Their leadership academy teaches all the core values that our youth so desparately need, especially in our world today when there is so much negativity. Watching these young individuals is like watching a seed you plant grow and mature and blossom. And when they give back, the love they pour into their cause is amazing, you might even say it is contagious, you cannot help but to want to be a part of what they are doing.
The world does not honor kids enough and place enough value on them. They are important, they are our future generations who will be running the world. Who better to help KIDS who ARE amazing, than KIDS!
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
By going to the Leadership Academy and watching and listening to the training. Helped organize our Halloween Trading Post and working on fundraising for our Rescue Mission to Africa in 2012.
Ways to make it better...
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Hope to help it grow with sponsors, donors and fundraising events and bring more awareness to it throughout the world so that it can make more of an impact on lives of youth every where and any where.
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Will you volunteer or donate to this organization beyond what is required of board members?
Definitely
How much of an impact do you think this organization has?
Life-changing
Will you tell others about this organization?
Definitely
How did you learn about this organization?
See above.
What is this organization's top short-term priority?
Due diligence and run the organization like we teach and train our youth. To grow with purpose and direction.
What is its top priority in the long run?
To be able to expand and be more involved in causes they support.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2011
I've been watching the development of Kids Helping Kids, going all the way back to the beginning of the organization. I've remained dazzled by the quality of leadership Laura Page has shown. Children are learning practical steps for being positive change-agents in this world by actually changing the world for good.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Watching the faces and behaviors of the children who are engaged in learning and service.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
the quality of the leadership; the enthusiasm of the children.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
the director, manager, volunteers, moms....
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
change the world forever for good....
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
I met Laura Page after my magazine wrote a story on her and her son Tyler Page over three years ago. Since then I have seen all they have accomplished, and all they strive to accomplish and I am amazed. Every child should be a part of her leadership academy because they have so many skills to gain, that they will never learn from school, or even home. Parents can learn too.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
attending several events they have coordinated including fundraisers, educational classes, and in their involvement in the local community. They have touched lives locally and internationally.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
watching the children gain knowledge, empowerment, integrity, and friendships. Watching them feel they can make a difference. Seeing the people who benefit from their giving as well.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
change even more lives. Not just the lives of the victims they continue to help, but to change the mindset of our future leaders which are today's children.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
Kids Helping Kids evolved from a simple idea by a big-hearted 10 year old boy to raise just $240 in order to save one Ghanaian child from the cycle of human trafficking into a cause-based multi-fundraising and leadership movement for community and global transformation through kids. In just three years the kids at KHK have raised over $100,000 simply by integrating their passions and skills for causes through volunteerism. This academy literally empowers kids to be just who they were born to be and with the utmost humble confidence.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
They are changing kids lives with their leadership academy that has a strong emphasis on integrity, youth empowerment and community awareness. They provide a platform for kids to put their heart-felt ideas into fundraising action to help other kids.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Have a lot more people involved. Would also like to see it become an aftershool program in all schools nation-wide. What they are teaching our kids is invaluable. I saw an autistic boy transform from a painfully shy boy into a self-confident young man.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
The geniune care for others and love of kids.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
compassionate, professional and they always seem like they are having fun.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
Literally transform our kids from selfishness to selflessness with confidence and humility.
Ways to make it better...
I could donate more money to them.
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
Growing at a rapid rate.
One thing I'd also say is that...
This organization has so much integrity and love for creating positive change through our youth, it's addictive.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
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