Tribune Staff Reports
Brownstown Central High School is one of 30 schools from across the United States receiving a $500 charitable grant from the Lead2Feed Student Leadership Program.
On Nov. 2, 2018, students in Robin Perry’s principles of business management class conducted a greased pig contest for faculty members and a second one that involved 15 students.
The $411.36 they collected from that event and the $500 grant will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit charity organization based in Jacksonville, Florida, that helps veterans with a variety of services in an effort to bring independence to the country’s most severely wounded veterans.
The class raised money through registration fees to participate in the greased pig contest, the school organized a day for teachers to pay to wear jeans and students donated a freewill offering to watch the contest.
Through the seventh annual Lead2Feed Challenge, there were 30 $500 grant winners and five teams that each earned a $10,000 grant for their nonprofit of choice.
“We were the only team in Indiana to win. I thought that was cool,” Perry said. “The students involved in the project at the first of the year have long left my class — some midterm graduates and one even went into the Marines. I tracked them down and let them know that their project won, and they were very happy about it.”
Through Lead2Feed lessons, service projects were developed as part of the Lead2Feed Student Leadership Program. Lead2Feed is a privately funded student leadership program. More than 1.5 million students across all 50 states have had the opportunity to grow as leaders through the free curriculum, according to a news release from the program.
Lead2Feed’s leadership lessons align with 21st century skills and satisfy literacy, social emotional learning and project-based learning standards. The lessons utilize a service project to develop students’ leadership and teamwork competencies.
The Lead2Feed program is inspired by David Novak, founder and chief executive officer of oGoLead and co-founder and retired chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands. It was developed by the Foundation for Impact on Literacy and Learning and the Lift a Life Foundation.
The next deadline to enter the Lead2Feed Challenge is May 31. For information, visit lead2feed.org.