Saturday, September 2, 2006

Pay It Forward Foundation

So I was channel surfing tonight and found the end of a movie that had Helen Hunt and that kid from the Sixth Sense and AI (I really like Helen Hunt, in a different way to Meg Ryan but I digress) any way it is called "Pay it forward" is this what we are trying to do with the User Groups we run, where else can I apply this principle?

The Pay it forward foundation may be worth a look here is what it is about now I've only just seen it so expect to hear more from me on this.

Reuben St. Clair, the teacher and protagonist in the book “Pay It Forward,” starts a movement with this voluntary, extra-credit assignment: THINK OF AN IDEA FOR WORLD CHANGE, AND PUT IT INTO ACTION. Trevor, the 12-year-old hero of “Pay It Forward,” thinks of quite an idea. He describes it to his mother and teacher this way: "You see, I do something real good for three people. And then when they ask how they can pay it back, I say they have to Pay It Forward. To three more people. Each. So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven." He turned on the calculator, punched in a few numbers. "Then it sort of spreads out, see. To eighty-one. Then two hundred forty-three. Then seven hundred twenty-nine. Then two thousand, one hundred eighty-seven. See how big it gets?"

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