Tour
de America - Grassroots projects lead to the formation of Humanitarian Resource Institute
Following a sabbatical from his medical studies in 1984, Stephen Michael Apatow
spent close to a decade committed to academics, international sports and
adventure. In 1989, he was inspired to focus his energy on youth leadership
initiatives and an athletic challenge that spanned three years.
The Cycle
Across America campaign (1990 - www.cycleacrossamerica.org) encompassed:
-- a 6000 mile double continental crossing, in 60 days, through 270 cities.
-- Daily youth and community
talks, media interviews press conferences to
open the first toll free hotline (1-800-SAY-NO-TO-DRUGS or 1-800-729-6686)
that provided access to free print materials and audiovisual loan programs
through the federal resource for alcohol and drug information.
-- The largest touch outreach
ever coordinated through the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention.
The next leg was the Run Across
America campaign (1993 - www.runacrossamerica.org) and encompassed:
-- A 3000 mile run, 12-25 miles per day, from Washington, DC to San Francisco,
California.
-- Initiatives in 133 cities that included scheduled youth and community talks, media interviews to spotlight unmet needs of frontline programs across the United States.
Stephen Michael Apatow, singer,
songwriter, composer (ASCAP) has orchestrated the International Arts Integration into
Education initiative to promote the arts as a vehicle for solution oriented
strategic planning and development across the globe.
Following the completion of two
national grassroots humanitarian projects across the United States in
1990 and 1993, he founded the nonprofit organization Humanitarian Resource Institute
in 1994 to serve as "a bridge for unmet needs to untapped resources," via
optimization of problem solving and analysis, development of effective
communication networks that reach key decision makers in appropriate demographics
and real time communication capability to support dialogue, consensus building
and action.
Today, the Humanitarian
University Consortium serves as (1) an international community of scholars,
(2) a bridge between Humanitarian Resource Institute and the international
academic community, (3) a think tank in support of the United Nations programs
and (4) the promotion of higher learning through both traditional and distance
education.
He is also the founder of SMAMedia Communications,
Pathobiologics International
and the Sports Medicine & Science
Institute, entities that he continues consultancy work in research and
development.
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