Breakout Educational Network
SOURCE: BreakoutEducationalNetwork.com, captured 2020-08-13
[Mackenzie Institute, 2008-09-21] A Connoisseur of Leadership
The Breakout Education Network and the emerging "I Channel" are among the tools being developed by Kitson Vincent and Stornoway Productions [a privately held Canadian broadcasting and production company based in Toronto, Ontario] to encourage higher standards of civic virtue among Canadians. One new product of this project is a slender -- but very worthwhile -- essay on leadership by Tom Hoppe.
Hoppe is not an academic, and his activism began more by way of necessity and experience than inclination. Before that, Hoppe was a soldier and a damn good one too. As he recounts in "Tom Hoppe: A Journey of Leadership" (Breakout Educational Network, Toronto, 2008). Hoppe received two medals for bravery while in Bosnia with the Lord Srathconas. As most ex-soldiers can relate, there is no better place to learn about leadership than the military; and no more intensive place to really learn about it than a war zone.
This personal exploration of leadership is an excellent little paper, and one that should be widely distributed in schools. Kudos to the people at the Breakout Education Network for bringing this story to the public; and thank God we have more young men like Tom Hoppe.
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The Breakout Education Network is a registered charitable educational organization with two key mandates:
1. To conduct independent research and produce materials that will educate citizens on matters of public policy, and
2. to develop community, television, media and educational outreach projects that disseminates and publicizes its work.
Our Mission
To examine the underlying reasons Canadian public policy is often ineffective in accomplishing its objectives; and by means of education and information, disseminate our findings by mass communication to the largest public audience in order to facilitate positive public change in how Canadians are governed.
To carry out the objectives of the Corporation as approved by the Canada Corporations Act, which are:
1. Undertaking research in cultural, political, social and economic, including commercial and economic fields; rendering assistance to the government and the general Canadian policy by providing public information collected as the result of research carried on under the auspices of the corporation;
2. Producing educational materials, books, videos, films, conferences, and television programs based on the corporation's research and relating to Canadian social, cultural, economic and political themes and topics; and
3. Coordinating activities of the corporation with those of other charitable organizations, institutions, agencies or individuals carrying on activities with similar objectives to those of the corporation.
Sponsors
- Kitson Vincent
- The W. Garfield Weston Foundation
- The Donner Canadian Foundation
- The Arthur J.E. Child Foundation
- Aurea Foundation (2007): $127,800
- Onex Corporation
- The Macdonald Stewart Foundation
- Hal Jackman Foundation
- Hon. Bill Graham
- Dr. John Scott Cowan
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