Yesterday was the first day in the office for our summer interns and we couldn’t be more excited to have them on board. Those of [...]
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April 28, 2013 | No Comments
Help Others Through Education
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Originally posted by Lucy Reser on April 28, 2013 on the Wofford College Blog
Through my interviews and experiences in all three countries I have learned [...]
February 21, 2013 | No Comments
We’re hiring!
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We invite interested individuals to apply for our USA-based Director of Development (aka Financial Optimist) position.
This newly-created position will afford the chosen applicant with [...]
February 5, 2013 | No Comments
Now in stock.
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Order your Building Tomorrow t-shirt today!
+ American Apparel
+ unisex fit
+ 50/50 cotton blend (aka – super soft!)
+ heather black
+ available small-xxl
$25 (including shipping)
Contact info [...]
December 18, 2012 | No Comments
Forbes 30 Under 30: Social...
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Original article featured on Forbes by Randall Lane
Building Tomorrow’s Founder & Chief Dreamer, George Srour, was recognized as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 Social [...]
November 5, 2012 | No Comments
Bear Hugs
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I’m a huge Alabama football fan. If you know me, you’re probably rolling your eyes right now. But I seriously just love the team, the [...]
October 24, 2012 | No Comments
You’re the missing piece
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Building Tomorrow’s work is only made possible by the cumulative efforts of countless individuals. In essence, our work is one big puzzle and we succeed [...]
October 2, 2012 | No Comments
Day 13 of my road trip!
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Today is one day before the 2 week mark of this crazy road trip. I’ve driven over 1600 miles, through 5 states, visiting 8 colleges [...]
September 19, 2012 | No Comments
…and we’re off!
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And so the road trip has begun! I’m officially reporting from my first stop, Nashville, TN hanging out in the Vanderbilt bookstore before meeting with [...]
August 13, 2012 | No Comments
Special Olympics Volunteer...
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by: guest blogger, Special Olympics via The Case Foundation
In June, we released what we believe are five elements to a fearless approach in solving some [...]
July 30, 2012 | No Comments
News from UNC
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Hear from Julia Heelan, current Co-Director of the Building Tomorrow chapter at UNC-Chapel Hill, about why she got involved, what her chapter is up to [...]
July 9, 2012 | No Comments
Have a summer birthday?
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So your birthday is coming up soon, you know the exact number of days until the special event arrives. Pure enjoyment pulses through your body [...]
July 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
Indianapolis for the summer&...
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I never imagined spending the summer after my Junior year of college in the cornfields, a.k.a Indianapolis. But here’s how I got here…
Watch this first.
My [...]
June 29, 2012 | No Comments
News from Furman University,...
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Our chapter of BT at Furman University has just gotten started. I first heard about Building Tomorrow when George came to speak at Furman. [...]
May 31, 2012 | No Comments
You Can Do It, Too
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Today is the last day for CH2M HILL Harambee Network R.E.A.CH.back Campaign. They’ve done a wonderful job raising money and are close to reaching their [...]
April 27, 2012 | No Comments
Hope Biked to Uganda!
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On Friday, April 20th, the Building Tomorrow chapter at Hope College in Holland, MI Biked to Uganda and raised $4,023 towards a new BT academy [...]
April 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
Reflections on CGI-U
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Liz Braden, my chapter advisor, sent me an e-mail asking if I wanted to spend the weekend in Washington D.C. with Bill Clinton. It took [...]
April 12, 2012 | No Comments
Building Tomorrow chapter...
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written by: Callie Cox l Staff Writer | Doane Line
Passion drives him to help women and children in Uganda, he is fluent in eight languages [...]
April 6, 2012 | No Comments
Students bike to raise...
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originally in the Indiana Daily Student
written by Michael Majchrowicz
photo credit: Chet Strange, Indiana Daily Student
During the last two days, IU students traveled 7,500 miles without [...]
March 15, 2012 | No Comments
Health & Education
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“The best way to cyclically improve health is by giving children an education.”
We’ve always been big believers that getting involved and being involved in our [...]
March 13, 2012 | 1 Comment
Service Learning at Mercer
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“I want to experience the kind of happiness that comes from helping someone and getting nothing in return,”
wrote Brianne Bower, an honors student at [...]
March 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
Dream big!
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A couple of weeks ago we got an email, completely out of the blue, from Sydni, a youth director from St. Peter’s United Methodist Church [...]
February 22, 2012 | No Comments
Organization raising money to...
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By John Roberts, Newspage Editor & Erikah Haavie, Contributing Writer
Furman University Campus News
7,613 miles: The approximate distance between Greenville, S.C., and Kampala, Uganda. 3 miles: [...]
February 16, 2012 | No Comments
The Importance of Building...
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-Hayley Swindell
The Odyssey Online – Texas – Kappa Kappa Gamma
A reoccurring problem that our world seems to constantly be faced with is our twisted way [...]
December 27, 2011 | No Comments
From Key Club to Doane, my...
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I first learned about Building Tomorrow during my senior year of high school. Evie Sue Ward, my classmate and district governor, made Building Tomorrow her [...]
November 1, 2011 | No Comments
Five Years of Building...
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We celebrated our 5th birthday with a full house at the ArtsGarden in downtown Indianapolis last Friday and it was a HUGE success. We couldn’t [...]
October 28, 2011 | No Comments
We’re 5 Years Old.
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A little more than five years ago, I set out to name a vision of engaging young people in the United States in the quest [...]
October 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
1.2 Million Reasons to Smile
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One awesome evolution of the Building Tomorrow model has been the willingness of communities to make significant investments in the idea of a community supported [...]
September 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
Building Tomorrow’s Five...
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New outreach to benefit more than 18,000 students.
INDIANAPOLIS — Building Tomorrow, Inc., an Indianapolis-based social-profit enterprise has announced a new commitment to construct a [...]
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Party Time at Hope College
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Here’s some creative fundraising for you: in addition to selling bricks through Building Tomorrow’s OneBrick Campaign, students at Hope College in Holland, Michigan organized a [...]
September 22, 2011 | No Comments
Run, Miles. Run!
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Building Tomorrow is a big fan of athletic fundraisers. Aside from our national campaign, Bike to Uganda, where students attempt to bike the distance from [...]
September 19, 2011 | No Comments
University of Notre Dame...
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Original article in University of Notre Dame School of Architecture Newsletter, September 19, 2011
Building Tomorrow is one of the newest student groups at the School [...]
filed under: News — Tags: architecture, design, kyeitabya, notre dame, sentigi, students, usa — admin @ 10:44 am
September 16, 2011 | No Comments
Here We Go!
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Do you remember the day you realized, ‘wow, I’m a big kid now?’
That’s the feeling coming over us all right now in the Building Tomorrow [...]
September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Notre Dame Design:Build
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In the fall of 2008, Elijah Pearce, a then undergraduate in the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture, reached out to Building Tomorrow. Elijah [...]
September 8, 2011 | No Comments
BT Featured in The Daily Texan
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The UT chapter of Building Tomorrow hosted a lecture this past Wednesday by the organization’s founder, George Srour.
September 7, 2011 | No Comments
BT Across the US of A.
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Our college chapters & young supporters are back in action with big plans for the upcoming semester. Kicking things off by making a big splash [...]
September 6, 2011 | No Comments
Labor Day Lemonade Stands
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Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend! We’re especially excited about how Braden Stelljes celebrated in Williamsburg, VA: a lemonade stand for BT!
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Needs and Deeds
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Design between architecture’s practice and academy for areas in need.
By: Angie Schmitt for AIArchitect, Architect Magazine
Imagine you have a $48,000 construction budget [...]
September 2, 2011 | No Comments
UT Tabling for BT
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Kappa Kappa Gammas at the University of Texas at Austin are back on-campus and tabling to support BT. Next week they’re hosting our very own [...]
August 25, 2011 | No Comments
What’s in your backpack?
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Students across the country are headed back to school this week. And even if you don’t have kids or siblings of your own, it’s a [...]
August 23, 2011 | No Comments
If this is what 13 year-olds...
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Building Tomorrow is founded on the belief that young people are not only full of potential for the future but highly capable of doing great [...]
August 18, 2011 | No Comments
BT, It’s Been Real
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Whether we want to believe it or not, the summer is almost over. Today is the last day in the office for us interns here [...]
August 16, 2011 | No Comments
Corn, Corn, and More Corn.
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Last Friday, BT was given a pretty great opportunity to work the corn booth at the Indiana State Fair to benefit our cause. A team [...]
August 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
It’s Our Job Now…
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“…to appreciate what we have and work to better opportunities for others.”
It is our mission at Building Tomorrow to engage youth in philanthropy and help [...]
August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
A Read-a-Thon for Education
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This summer we’ve made a point to tell the incredible stories of our BTers and what they’re doing to change the world. One such inspiring [...]
August 4, 2011 | No Comments
the BT Chip-In, sponsored by...
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Calling all Indiana Golfers – Close out the summer golf season at the Building Tomorrow Social Investment Council’s 2nd Annual BT Chip-In, sponsored by [...]
August 2, 2011 | No Comments
#BTweetathon
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If you follow us on twitter, maybe you’ve heard a little bit about today’s #BTweetathon. Here at Building Tomorrow, we’re serious about the cause for [...]
July 29, 2011 | No Comments
Moment of Obligation – ...
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Building Tomorrow’s Founder & Chief Dreamer, George Srour, shared with us what he considers to be his “moment of obligation” – the point at which [...]
July 27, 2011 | No Comments
Tubasanyukidde
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As the school year approaches, our BT chapters are hard at work. Chapter leaders are making arrangements for call-out meetings, fundraisers, and other activities on [...]
July 22, 2011 | 2 Comments
At Home and Abroad
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Lately, our critics have asked us why we choose to work in Uganda when there is so much need at home. The education system in [...]
July 20, 2011 | No Comments
A Birthday Wish for Education
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Every year we wait impatiently to celebrate the one day that is all about us – our birthday. Most birthdays revolve around cake, a song, [...]
July 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Drum Roll Please…
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BT Nation, get excited, because earlier this week, Building Tomorrow officially joined forces with an awesome organization called One Day’s Wages. Through this partnership we [...]
July 8, 2011 | No Comments
Everyone is Building Tomorrow
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So you’ve browsed the “Get Involved” page on our website and identified with our cause. You’re passionate about education equality and that makes Building Tomorrow [...]
July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
Why Are You Building Tomorrow?
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How exactly do volunteers and donors differentiate one non-profit organization from the next? We wondered, too – so here are a few statements from our [...]
July 4, 2011 | No Comments
Random Opportunities for...
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BT supporters have come across our cause in more ways than we are even aware of, so it comes as no surprise when Ellie Chernosky [...]
June 29, 2011 | No Comments
LugaFlow Flavor
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So earlier this week we released our very first music video – a cover of “Shoop” by Salt-N-Pepa. We like to think that it’s made [...]
June 27, 2011 | No Comments
Build
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Maybe you didn’t know this about us, but the Building Tomorrow Team is made up of a pretty sweet (and gangster) group of people. We’ve [...]
June 24, 2011 | No Comments
James Wood High School
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We got an exciting letter in the mail on Monday from a young BT supporter. Emily Crawford, a Key Club student at James Wood High [...]
June 16, 2011 | No Comments
The very first Bike to Uganda
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Although our founder, George Srour, hails from the College of William & Mary, Building Tomorrow’s first official fundraiser took place at his rival school – [...]
June 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
If you’ve seen a lot of...
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Then our profile picture campaign is working. So far 100 Building Tomorrow supporters have changed their profile-pictures to our logo as a way of pledging [...]
June 9, 2011 | No Comments
Today is Ugandan Heroes’...
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So we thought we’d take the time to recognize all of the incredible students and individuals who dedicate themselves to Building Tomorrow everyday. We often [...]
May 24, 2011 | No Comments
Why We Do What We Do – A...
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The number of charities and organizations representing various causes can be overwhelming. The search term “non-profit organizations” itself gets 38,800,000 hits on Google. So it’s [...]
May 19, 2011 | No Comments
YesKidzCan!
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Here at BT, we know a good thing when we see it. And YesKidzCan! is definitely a good thing. This organization supports social entrepreneurism and [...]
