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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 NCADI 1-800-Say No-To Drugs campaign (1990) 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 Hunger/Homelessness/Poverty Across America campaign (1993) 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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