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Fellow Travelers

机译:同行旅客

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In the late 1980s luke o'neill was on his way to the comfortable life: practicing corporate law and living in tony Greenwich, Conn. But he couldn't ignore an itch to help kids. He quit the law firm, took a few jobs at nonprofits and then enrolled at Harvard Business School. When he graduated in 1995, he had $3,000 in his bank account, an ailing 6-year-old Isuzu Trooper and $80,000 in debt. Yet, through fundraising savvy and a strong dose of charm, O'Neill put his plan into practice. He started a boarding school in 1995 to teach leadership skills to kids who weren't getting the education they needed in traditional classrooms. O'Neill, 45, has so far raised $16 million, secured a 70-acre campus in Ashby, Mass, and hired a staff of 30 to get the school off the ground. This isn't your classic coat-and-tie, yes-sir boarding school: Students spend 12 of 32 weeks traveling to places like the border towns of Mexico to learn about Nafta and the lives of sweatshop workers, while improving their Spanish. Other times they travel to the barrier islands of Georgia and Florida to learn about conservation and the science behind the coral reefs, while navigating sailboats using trigonometry and the stars.
机译:在1980年代后期,卢克·奥尼尔(Luke o'neill)踏上了安逸的生活:练习公司法并居住在康涅狄格州托尼·格林威治(Tony Greenwich),但他不能忽略帮助孩子的渴望。他退出了律师事务所,在非营利组织工作了一些,然后就读于哈佛商学院。当他1995年毕业时,他的银行帐户中有$ 3,000,六岁的五十铃骑兵(Isuzu Trooper)和$ 80,000的债务。然而,通过精明的筹款和强烈的魅力,奥尼尔将他的计划付诸实践。他于1995年创办了一所寄宿学校,向未在传统教室中获得所需教育的孩子们教授领导技能。现年45岁的奥尼尔(O'Neill)迄今已筹集了1600万美元,在马萨诸塞州阿什比(Ashby)建立了70英亩的校园,并雇用了30名员工将这所学校推上了基础。这不是您经典的领带式寄宿学校:是的,您的寄宿学校是这样的:学生们在32周内花了12周的时间前往墨西哥边境城镇之类的地方,了解Nafta和血汗工厂工人的生活,同时改善他们的西班牙语。其他时间,他们前往佐治亚州和佛罗里达州的障碍岛,了解有关珊瑚礁背后的保护和科学知识,同时使用三角函数和恒星在帆船上航行。

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    《Forbes》 |2005年第6期|p.114116|共2页
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    Nicole Ridgway;

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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
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  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 世界经济问题;
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