Each One Reach One: Empowering others to make the world better through service

Helping people.  That’s my passion.  Teaching youth and empowering others to commit themselves to the positive and use their increasing entrepreneurial capabilities to not only monetize their ideas and generate revenue but to give their energy and efforts over to a greater ideal of blessing others in incredible ways by means already at our disposal.  As the founder and creator of Good Hope Charities and The Global Renaissance Movement as a whole, it has long been my intention to build and establish a makerspace technology center for the youth that we train and serve may have access to technologies that are literally building the future at this very moment. 

I am honored and humbled to be the recipient of a grant from The Association of American Educators. It is a testament to the dedication and hard work of everyone involved in Good Hope Charities and The Global Renaissance Change Agent Academy. The mission of Good Hope Charities goes beyond education; it is about being a blessing to those in need. With this grant, we can continue our commitment to empowering students and making a positive impact on the lives of individuals facing physical challenges through the provision of prosthetic limbs.   That is exactly what we are going to do. 

This grant will be instrumental in expanding the reach and impact of The Global Renaissance Change Agent Academy, allowing Good Hope Charities to equip even more students with the skills and knowledge needed to thrive as global entrepreneurs. As I continue to work to inspire and lead, the organization remains steadfast in its commitment to fostering positive change in education and making a difference in the lives of those in need.

The prize money will go toward 3D printers and equipment that will allow our team to successfully 3D print prosthetic limbs that can and will be fitted to amputees both here and abroad.  Our Change Agents are students learning to identify problems, develop innovative solutions, and collaborate across borders to create a positive impact while building wealth and achieving personal and professional fulfillment. By combining this entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to see the world through others’ eyes, we’re cultivating a generation of change agents who will leave a legacy by being the blessing that others are praying for.  By uplifting and encouraging others to do good that inevitably becomes the expansion and proliferation of The Global Renaissance Movement; the bringing about of greater levels of peace, freedom and friendship.  

The Global Renaissance Movement is about doing good because it’s needed.  It’s about doing good because we can, and we know that we should.  It’s about doing good because if it’s not going to be through us who will it be?  The world is the way it is through lack of appropriate and positive action, apathy, low levels of empathy and compassion. Yet, through the dedicated efforts of those who’ve made it a mission to be a service to others, people are shown and taught how to truly be the change that should be in the world not just in theory, but in fact.  The message sent through the noble actions of program participants is that they can do this or something akin to its greatness if they dedicate themselves to not just helping others and committing acts of service but also leveraging their increasing entrepreneurial and business acumen to achieve financial wealth sooner rather than later.  They need only believe and decide to do it and receive the right support and assistance that will help them to go the distance. 

Providing students with access to 3D printers within an entrepreneurship education program not only enhances their technical skills but also instills a sense of social responsibility and empathy. It enables them to become active contributors to positive change, aligning with the mission of Good Hope Charities to be a blessing to those in need.

Good Hope Charities is a nonprofit educational organization based in central Arkansas with the simple mission to Be The Blessing That Others Are Praying For and hosts The Global Renaissance Change Agent Academy which teaches Entrepreneurship though global engagement.  The Change Agent Academy is only one community service and development program that Good Hope Charities spearheads and asks for the community’s help with support through direct financial support as well as in-kind donations and volunteering.  More information can be found online at www.goodhopecharities.org.  Please support our crowdfunding campaign at http://igg.me/at/powerkids and help us to reach out goal so that we may empower, enrich and enlighten more young minds and build a better and brighter future for us all.   

Changing and Building the World with CODE

The modern world is filled with billions of machines. Yet 1% of 1% of us can open them up, & change them.  Now, a new generation is rising. They see this world as something to shape, not just use.

Kano is a new kind of computer company allowing you make & code technology yourself, with simple steps, stories, and play. You share your creations with others across the physical and digital world.  Together, we’ll demystify the modern world – and open up its creative power to all.

I believe that every child should be learning how to code, building websites, and digital platform management (blogs, SEO tools, etc.) and streaming video.  This is why the students of The Global Renaissance Change Agent Academy will receive and be working with Kano Computer Kits.  This is among the most engaging way to integrate computing across the curriculum and is a vision for us.  The Kano Computer Kits equip students with a knowledge and understanding of technology to create with code.

Our students will have their interest in STEM careers accelerated by the integration of technology into their core content areas motivating all of our students to dig in and take their learning to the next level.

Change Agents will have the opportunity to learn real code.  With Kano Computer Kits are computer anyone can make.  When they build their own Kano computer, they get a real computer, powered by Raspberry Pi 3 and Kano OS. They’ll get all the apps and programs that they need.  They’ll get a powerful learn-to-code tool, designed to unlock potential, and unleash creativity!

Step-by-step challenges level up slowly. Type code, drag blocks, unlock programming powers, earn medals. Projects with Python, Javascript, Unix, and more.  Learning about HDMI, pixels, processors, and binary while following along with Story Mode. Kano’s unique operating system cracks open the secrets of sealed screens and slick software, giving Change Agents the power to take control.  Here they will learn by making. They will code paintings and mathematical masterpieces, creating animations that move to their voice and building their own musical instruments and sound machines. They wont just be playing games, they will be inventing them while change the rules!  We teach our students to create and not to consume.

Coding with sound and building with data, music, beats, funny sounds while teaching their computer to speak.  Among the many opportunities they will be able to learn how to make fashion with code creating fashionable patterns fit for the catwalk.

We thank you for your support!

 

The Change Agent Express

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. — Frederick Douglas

Young people are capable of extraordinary things when living lives of passion and purpose. I believe that learning by doing breeds passion and that a variety of experiences is critical for leader-ship development.

My vision is to acquire a bus, completely gut it and recreate it from the inside out. Rows of bolted bench seats will give way to a mobile classroom for the 21st century. As the newly born Change Agent Express makes its way across the country, my team and accompanying students aboard will go on to experience the thrill of a dream in action. Where dreams hit the road and come to life all at the same time.

Our mission is to inspire dreamers to take action all along the way from our journey to their hometowns to the destinations that will reveal opportunities within the world that the youth we serve might otherwise never come to know.

This experience will be an environment where next generation leaders are made ensuring that students aboard the Change Agent Express have the most impactful experience possible and gain the necessary skills and confidence required to build the Future while offering those coming after them the same opportunity. Washington D.C. site visits will include but are not limited to The Smithsonian – The White House – United States Congress – The Mary-land Science Center – Harpers Ferry, West Virginia – Vietnam War Memorial – Lincoln Memorial – Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial – The Albert Einstein Memorial – The American History Museum – Under-ground Railroad Museum and much much more.

I Will

I will.  To a great extent these can be the most powerful words spoken by a person no matter the tongue by which they are birthed.  I will, is more than a positive affirmation, much more than the manifestation of positive thought. The statement or better still, the belief in, I will, is a verbal weapon to be used toward the enactment of our manifest destiny, our glorious future that most certainly will come to be if we are thrice more determined than the forces that oppose our uplift and seeks to thwart our ascension.

I will, is beyond a statement.  I Will, is a vision of what is to become.  I will, is a vivid dream seen through the prism of possibility printed indelibly on the brain.  More simply put, I Will, is the only oar in our possession when we are alone, lost at sea.  I will, is our faith in action.  I will, is our hope during our feelings of seemingly hopelessness.  That conviction is our refuge during the hurricane, the oasis in the desert.  The journey to dream fulfillment is no easy task to achieve.  Blazing a trail between perceived dreams and accomplished realities is not easy but it is definitely POSSIBLE!

When the road ahead is hard and it seems like all is lost and our efforts are futile and it appears that our resources have been spent and that our supporters have abandoned us, I will, can carry us through the storm to see the bright light of a new and blessed day.  I will, will carry you through because there will be times when this will be all you have to cleave to.  Every titan of every industry at one point or another had utterly nothing except the pure will and determination of their human spirit to make happen what they saw taking place with their minds eye.  This is what I must do.  This too is what you must do and all others with a dream too colorful and boisterous to contain within the heart of our bodies.

No matter the dream, no matter the need, no matter the desire, no matter the setbacks, no matter the failures in recent past, no matter the difficulties, say to yourself, say out loud and in defiance of the negative naysayers, I WILL.

I WILL overcome this obstacle.  I WILL lose this weight.  I WILL graduate from college.  I WILL be a better parent.  I WILL beat this addiction.  I WILL reconnect with my loved ones.  I WILL become a better man today than I was yesterday.  I WILL make this year a more beautiful, bountiful and blessed year than the last.  With the remainder of this year I, we, must take command of the opportunities granted to us by God of another chance, a chance to move ahead forging finer futures, a chance to correct the mistakes of our past and to adopt new disciplines for our futures.  We must.  We can.  We will!

Real Men Read & Barbershop Book Corners

REAL MEN READ brings men into the classroom to read to and mentor children in Kindergarten- 6th Grade and continues the push for greater reading comprehension in the barber chair with BARBERSHOP BOOK CORNERS.

REAL MEN READ encourages kids to read and inspires them toward a lifelong love of reading. The program shows that REAL MEN do read and value education. The goal of the program is to improve literacy skills, reading confidence and testing performance.

The Global Renaissance REAL MEN READ Initiative addresses literacy as a conduit to educate, empower and engage the community at large in narrowing the academic achievement gap.

If you would like to volunteer as a reader please email J Glenn at GlobalRenaissance-Movement@Gmail.com

Choose A Book And Read To Your Barber, He’ll Take A Little Money Off The Top. It’s not just enough to read the book out loud. Kids are quizzed by their barber to make sure they understand what they read as part of the barbershop’s literacy program at Maximum performance in Conway Arkansas.

 

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The Pine Bluff Black Author Expo

All proceeds from this event are for the benefit of The Global Renaissance Change Agent Academy, a learning center and The Global Renaissance Movement.  A Global impact movement empowering communities through innovation, entrepreneurship and talent development.  This learning center will bring sprint time to the economic winters of our most challenged communities.

Authors will pay 10 dollars to have a table and participate.

All showcase participants are allotted 2 raffle tickets as a result of their paid participation

All businesses that contribute will be allotted entry into the a second drawing for a Quarter page permanent advertising inside the group book, EPIPHANIES: REALIZATIONS OF GREAT TRUTHS.

Auj’Rae’s by design LLC

Fantastic Fashions & Accessories is a fashion boutique for young girls and tweens, that was created by Terri McCuien. Each pillow case dress, tutu and flip flop are hand made. With your support we will donate a dress to the Renaissance Ambassador Trek Mission to Malawi Program, to be given to and worn by the young female students of Malawi attending this school.

FANTASTIC FASHIONS, Because every girl should feel beautiful! 

For purchase prices and additional information on how to support please Contact Terri McCuien @ 501.563.3701 or email her at terrimccuien74@gmail.com

InterFaith Alliance

The Global Renaissance Interfaith Alliance is the coming together of all organizations, all faiths, beliefs and places of worship across the spectrum of the global community in support of the mission and strategic visions of The Global Renaissance Movement. We believe community service and education are vital to ending extreme poverty here at home — and in the developing world. Our aim is to work collectively and intelligently with all individuals, organizations and public entities to promote, support, advocate for and bring about world peace, freedom and friendship. This is done with entrepreneurship through global engagement and educational opportunities offered to the young people we serve. These young people are of an economic disposition not allowing for their participation in such events and programs as The Renaissance Ambassador Trek or afford the participation costs for a program such as The Global Renaissance Change Agent Academy.

This academy strives to teach our students the value of leadership, scholarship and entrepreneurship as well as self-reliance, self-determination, conflict resolution and peacemaking and diplomacy. Certainly our world needs more peace makers as well as those who genuinely care for others by taking an active role in the difficult yet not so impossible work of making our world better.
The details of The Ambassador Trek Mission can be found here.

http://www.buildon.org/take-action/build-a-school/

We of The Global Renaissance Movement, in our mission to bring enlightenment to many in need, seek to be a living example to others who may wish to have an impact and not know how. We will create bonds that affect their own lives just as profoundly as the lives of those they serve by using our creativity and passion to raise money for children in need here in the US and giving them the opportunity to change lives through positive actions abroad. We seek to remove the cost barriers that prevent so many of the deserving young people from taking part in life transformational programming; to do that we have under taken a number of creative initiatives that both serves the public good and the global community. For those institutions of faith that believe in our stated missions, support our work and would like to see these efforts succeed, we ask that you join us in support. There are a number of things that you as an individual or as an organization can do to help. The funds generated from this exchange will go to break through the cost barriers for deserving students who need a place outside of traditional schooling to develop their time, talent and ideas in ways they once thought to be impossible. This educational endeavor is our Change Agent Academy. We ask you to join us in this effort that until now has never been done. It’s a free and easy way to help our young students create and take part in history. Won’t you please join us.

 

Epiphanies: Realizations of Great Truths

The Epiphany I had is the overall premise which a focus of the book for the reader to identify the ideas that he or she thinks of often and routinely discard thinking them not to be valuable and instead of discarding these ideas, myself and additional co-authors highlight the ways in which a person dedicated to dream fulfillment might go about turning that idea, the thought that was the result from an Ah-Ha moment, into a tangible, profitable and legitimate business entity or product as well as outlining how to use that product or business entity for the improvement of themselves, their communities and indeed the world at large.

This venture is a soon to be released group book.  Written and compiled by 10 very different Global Change Agents with the amazing trait of selflessness in common.  Contained within this book is the knowledge that unlock the secrets to monetizing your talents and tapping into your higher sense of self.  This book is written, published and sold for the purpose of supporting The Global Renaissance Movement generally and The Renaissance Ambassador Trek specifically.  When you purchase this book, you are supporting the international education of an American child.  It’s that simple.  The good folks who make up the authors of this book are all True Believers of the very real but often unrealized truth that EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.  our team simply does not believe in limitations.  Why else would we set out to raise 100 Grand to begin an innovative educational program and bring our students on a good will service mission to Malawi?  It’s because we know that EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE and we claim victory over this mission, we claim victory over the fundraising needed to make it on the mission even now as we truthfully are far from our goal. The rest of this team as I myself are walking by Faith and not by Sight.  We say that we can complete this mission and so we shall by the grace of God and with your support, we will be successful.  We will make history. We will transform lives and make this world a better place.

Co-Authors Include:

J Glenn Smith

Ambrose Lawanga

Chrystal Lee, MBA

Warren Tarver

Tush Turner

Crystal Ford

 

Competitive Advantages for your company to join The Global Renaissance Movement and advertise within EPIPHANIES:

1. Choosing a Group Book Advertisement is actually not a purchase at all; it is a proven Tax-Deductible Charitable Contribution. Good Hope Charities is Non-Profit 501 c3 organization and your advertisement can be written off on your company’s taxes.

2. Your advertisement is PERMANENT. As in FOREVER.  In all future reprints.
3. Your advertisements will be placed ____ states where all of our authors call home. Reaching an audience that you otherwise would not reach.
4. You gain instant access to ____ industries that our authors represent.
5. Your charitable contribution will have a direct positive impact on the lives of our many different young people children in 2 different countries in 2 different hemispheres of our world. You will be making a lasting impact for generations.
6. You immediately will become a part of history as this effort, The Global Renaissance Movement nor has anything like it never was done before. Prospective customers will know you for your philanthropic efforts and innovative creative foresight.

7. We offer you added value benefits.
8. Business support from The Global Renaissance Movement Business Support Network.
9. Targeted advocacy of your company and the industry in which you operate.
10. Referrals from The Global Renaissance Movement Business Support Network
11. Lead Generation
12. Discounts on our workshop presenters and keynoters from The Global Renaissance Bureau of Speakers
13. Support for us and The Global Renaissance Movement directly supports college students all over America through our Remote Internship Programs. Our interns will gain exceptional experience and income by way of supporting your company doing what it does best, making a profit! We actively send customers your way.  Always will.

Competitive Advantage of Advertising Opportunities within this book are for the purpose of raising the necessary funds to create the programming that we have envisioned.  The funds from the sale of this book support each of these fantastic public servants and the advertising goes directly to support the Strategic Visions of The Global Renaissance Movement.  If interested in advertising and reaching our audience through this unique method of communication inside this book or within the inspirational magazine, THE RENAISSANCE, please contact J Glenn at GlobalRenaissanceMovement@Gmail.com or 501.428.3627

Global Renaissance Movement Remote Internships

We are looking for Business Students, Marketing Students, Photography Students, Graphic Design, Journalism Students and any student that supports the principles, strategic visions and the very idea of The Global Renaissance Movement.  Many Hands Make Light Work.  This is something I learned long ago and changing the world is going to require the cooperation and the coordination of all people in all places that care.  This is your opportunity to become involved on the grassroots level of what is indeed a MOVEMENT, to connect with one another, changing all of our lives through business creation & reciprocity, supporting one another as we live a better example for others to follow.  Those that join us likely have experienced epiphanies or what can be called “Light Bulb Moments”, a new state of enlightenment speaking to us all indicating that we must no longer remain captivated by our electronic devices and their accompanying gadgets; that we ACT for the preservation of the planet and our own human species.  The aim is peacemaking as it is preservation/conservation as it is the improvement of individual lives as they are lifted out of poverty and illiteracy and manufactured social division with our help through business using the philosophy of Entrepreneurial Altruism as a guide.

The Global Renaissance Movement is Economic as it is Social as it is Political.  All of these elements intertwine and work with or against one another in some way throughout of our lives in the world.  Global Renaissance PAC is a NON PARTISON & INDEPENDENT political action committee destined to have a positive impact on the 2016 presidential election as well as local elections throughout the nation.  Our primary emphasis will be in regards to the following:

• Political Operation Trainings
• Get Out The Vote efforts
• Down Ballot Elections
• Judicial Elections (Who are these judges that are on the ballot that nobody knows anyway?)
• Ballot Initiatives (Ways to bypass our Do-Nothing Congress and state houses to accomplish R.OG.R.E.S.S. on our own)
• We aim to hire and put out onto the Political Battlefield 10,000 newly trained Political Operatives working towards an inclusive agenda that will benefit ALL people inside The United States of America directly and others throughout the world indirectly. The Global Renaissance Movement is Global in Scope and Local in Practice.

Our Remote Interns will be working to assist Global Renaissance PAC with its outreach efforts and necessary work along with Global Renaissance, LLC.  It is important to complete the Global Renaissance Inquiry Paper so that we may best gauge where your personal philosophy aligns with The Global Renaissance Movement itself.  As it stands today our Congress has about a 90% Disapproval rating yet they have about a 95% reelection rate….now how can that be unless the system is rigged…which it is…we all know it, yet for some reason, the activists, the nation at large is in a state of paralysis….can’t act….no matter how offended or pissed off or damaged or lied to we are……can’t, wont, will not ACT….NO LONGER!

Job Duties:

• Using their own contacts, personal networks and research abilities to secure speaking engagements for members of The Global Renaissance Bureau of Speakers.
• Create, Support and Advance marketing efforts on behalf of The Global Renaissance Movement.
• Commit to working 10 hours per week
• Scheduling Appointments and setting up meetings
• Completing distributing Press Releases
• Online content creation
• Each person will contribute according to their own strengths and weaknesses. We want all people everywhere to thrive and we have no interest in placing any person in a supporting role of an area that they have no passion towards.
• Other job duties will be added as the movement continues, grows and expands.

Benefits of participation:

• Valuable experience in the field that you love
• Earn 10% of speaker fees that you secure are unlimited in possible income!
• 10% of every sale of 50 Books or more is $$$ in your pocket.
• Work as a team with other interns across the web to secure the same things and still make money. Earn while you learn!
• If you arrange a bulk book buy of 50 books or larger then you will earn 10% of the net profit from sale
• If you set up speaking gigs for our members of the Bureau you will earn 10% commission
• If you find an advertising partner and we make a sale you earn 10% commission
• If The Global Renaissance Bureau of Speakers were to Earn a paid speaking engagement at the college that you personally attend and you have a hand in making that happen, you earn 25% of the net profit.
• The positions are all commission based. If revenue is earned on behalf of The Global Renaissance Movement then income will be earned by that Remote Intern.
• Opportunities for personal and professional elevation are available.

In time this movement will provide grassroots funding for worthwhile projects.  I, J Glenn, have formed and launched this movement as a means to remedy the many problems that permeate within our culture and is taking far too many lives needlessly.  I believe firmly that as I feel this way there are also others who feel the same.  I intend to connect with them.  Perhaps you reading this now.  I just believe that there a lot of such people out there. I think that for whatever reason, even in the age of social media, we are disconnected yet we do not have to remain so. I also believe that in spite of so many would be differences, we really have more things in common.  We all breathe the same air.  We all cherish our children’s future.  And we are all mortal.  Those that support this creative movement must have a commitment to truth telling and a genuine love for humanity.  This is a Pro-Human, Peace Making through Business & Service Movement.  We want people that are Motivated for Mobilization, the stage at which people begin to take action.  We want those who are ready for MASSIVE POSITIVE ACTION.  If you have an interest in moving toward the future with a new dedication to become better human beings, I encourage you to reach out.

Must complete The Global Renaissance Inquiry Paper

• Must complete an official Global Renaissance, LLC Application. If interested please contact J Glenn at GlobalRenaissanceMovement@Gmail.com.