tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992978596959575885.post101359895295785189..comments2023-11-02T06:19:18.246-07:00Comments on Advancing the Non Profit Sector: the problem with weaknessKaren Eber Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17787972755014673867noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992978596959575885.post-19019580275697577182009-04-20T16:40:00.000-07:002009-04-20T16:40:00.000-07:00This speaks to a situation I just observed last we...This speaks to a situation I just observed last week when my partners and I were working with an organization in Jamaica. There was a group of polite teenagers that helped move furniture for the training sessions and brought up lunch for the attendees. We all commented on how helpful these young men were. The executive director told us that these boys had been expelled from school for such things as bringing weapons to campus and fighting. The Center had turned them around by focusing on what they did right, not what they had done wrong. For many of them, it was the first time anyone told them they did something worthy of praise and they were working on the behaviors that brought more of that praise.Terrie Temkin, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06115456112406830259noreply@blogger.com