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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.
Arts Integration
Into Education
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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