pay it forward

Pay It Forward-Toastmasters Basic Manual (Project #9)

Darryl Heron

Pay It Forward Day

25 April, 2013

About the Presentation

This is based on a speech given about Pay It Forward @Toastmasters Word Weavers club

Wiesbaden, Germany on June 6, 2012…

This was Project #9 out of the Basic Manual

I decided to update this for Pay It Forward Day 2013

The World Needs to Change

Mayan Calendar predicted end the world in 2012

Lots of problems in the world today

We‘re going to change the world…

My Story

September 11th had just happened

I had just attended the funeral for my mother

I was inspired by & needed the Pay It Forward movie

Pay It Forward- The Movie

Based on book by Catherine Ryan Hyde

7th grade class challenged to Change the World

Haley Joel Osmend‘s character came up with the Pay It Foward Concept

You Help 3 People…

The Good Deeds Lay the Ground Work…

They each pay it forward to 3 people

The Good Deeds Keep Growing

Each person helped is suppoed to Pay It Forward to 3 other peopleWe quickly run out of room when we go one level more!

Pay It Forward In America

Oprah gave away $1000 to several viewers with the instructions to get creative in helping others

In Atlanta this money went to My Sister‘s House and the $1000 that Oprah really grew

This created one of Oprah‘s most memorable moments that lots of people remember to this day and inspired lots of other people to Pay it Forward

Kmart Layaway Angels

November 2011- Michigan

She decided to pay down the layaway of several families so that they could have a nice Chrismas

A women‘s husband had recently died

She looked for a way to celebrate Christmas while remembering her husband

Pay It Forward Grows

Other good deeds @ gas stations, grocery stores, restuarants

Walmart and Target had several similar events

News spread over traditional media & internet

Smilar things happened @ other Kmarts

Paying It Forward in Germany

In Braunschweig, Germany over €180,000 has been given annonomusly since November 2011

Started with reports of a women’s purse getting stolen

Several governmental agencies, charities, & other organizations have received envelopes with large sumes of money

Germany Rounds Up

How often have you been in a store and gotten back some small amount of change? What do you do with it?

“Deutschland Rundet Auf” uses the combined consumer power across Germany as many stores for projects being done in Germany

The have a Facebook page where you can recomend stores that you‘d like to see participate in the program

SOS Children‘s Village

Families involved in the program in Greece have shot up from 210 to 1230 within a single year!

Some families are handing over their kids because they can’t afford to take care of them any longer!

SOS Children’s Village in Greece has been hit pretty hard by economic times

Charity in Greece is taxed

It Begins With One Person..

I don’t care what other people tell you. One person can make a difference!

"The essential conclusion is that a strong direct correlation and high probability of causality exists between the well-being, happiness, health, and longevity of people who are kind and compassionate in their charitable helping activities."

-Shu Pan, The Darthmouth Undergarduate of Journalistic Science 2009

Acts of Kindness

“Acts of Kindness Change People

small acts of kindness change people in a small way

A big enough act of kindness can alter the course of a person's life entirely

But big or small, I've never seen it fail”

- Catherine Ryan Hyde Pay It Forward

Imagine If…

“Imagine if every person before they went to bed asked the question of ‘how did I make the world a better place today?’

“Imagine if everyone viewed all those people that they came across as someone that they could help instead of what are they going to take from me!

-Charley Johnson- Pay It Forward Foundation

Pay It Forward Day…

In 2012, people from 52 countries participated in Pay It Forward Day

Pay It Forward Day started in Australia in 2007 and has grown every year since

This year Pay It Forward Day is on April 25th. Why not take part?

Check out the website at:

http://payitforwardday.com/

I Challenge You…

You don’t have to be rich or powerful to Pay It Forward

I challenge you to Pay It Forward- today, this week, in the coming weeks, and years

We can change the world, one good deed at a time!

Credits

Pay It Forward Movie Posterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pay_it_forward_ver1.jpg

Pay It Forward- Oprah Stylehttp://www.oprah.com/spirit/Paying-It-Forward

Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accountshttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/anonymous-donors-pay-off-kmart-222535611.html

Local business owner paid lunch for everyone in a popular dinerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGf_mddx-nQ&feature=relmfu

Pay It Forward in Starbuckshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfgDTqEwAJQ&feature=relmfu

Pay It Forward 2013http://www.payitforwardfoundation.org/experience/

Pay It Forward- The Story Behind Catherine Ryan Hyde‘s Book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_eMYDwVGA&feature=related

Credits Continued

Annoymer Wohltäter spendet 180.000 Eurohttp://www.welt.de/regionales/hamburg/article13868751/Anonymer-Wohltaeter-spendet-180-000-Euro.html

Deutschland Rundet Aufhttp://www.deutschland-rundet-auf.de/

Video explaining what Deutschland Rundet Auf is doinghttp://www.deutschland-rundet-auf.de/#!video/mitmachen/1

SOS Children‘s Village Websitehttp://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/Pages/default.aspx

Information on the situation in Greece for the SOS Children‘s Villagehttp://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/News-and-Stories/Family-Focus-2012/Pages/Focus-on-poverty.aspx

Resources

Wikipedia entry about Pay It Forward- The Movie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_It_Forward

Wikipedia entry about Pay it Forward- The philosophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward

Pay It Forward- The Foundation

http://www.payitforwardfoundation.org/

About.mehttp://about.me/darrylheron

LinkedIn:http://de.linkedin.com/in/darrylheron/

Darryl Heron‘s presentations on SlideSharehttp://www.slideshare.net/darrylheron

Email me:mailto:darrylheron@about.me

Be Sure to Check Out…

For More about Toastmasters…

Toastmasters Internationalhttp://www.toastmasters.org/

Word Weavers- Wiesbaden, Germany (my home club)http://www.word-weavers.de/