Matthew Cimone
Matthew Cimone is the co-founder and CEO of Esther’s Echo (www.esthersecho.org). Esther’s Echo is a small-scale start-up community development organization seeking to utilize the Internet as a means of profiling community-based social change initiatives online and helping them secure financial support. Matthew has completed extensive research on youth engagement models in Canada, has spoken to over 50 000 youth across the country, was named Youth Spokesperson for the Millennium Development Goals by the United Nations in 2006, and hopes one day to play a rock concert in space.
Youth-Focused “Leadership Training”: Is It Stunting Future Canadian Leaders?
In 2008, I was touring with one of Canada’s foremost youth leadership development organizations when I met Joshua. At the time, Joshua was an elementary school student in Alberta. He was selected by his teachers to attend a workshop designed by the organization that I was facilitating. The workshop, called “Gift Plus Issue Equals Change”, [...]
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