Why Real Change Takes Real Involvement

"Why Real Change Takes Real Involvement:

The Impact a Brown Education can Make" 

Deacon Patrick Moynihan ’87 serves as the President of The Haitian Project (THP) and head of its tuition-free Catholic boarding school in Haiti, Louverture Cleary School (LCS), a post he held from 1996 to 2006 and returned to in March 2009.  See this recent BAM article on the work Patrick and brother Brian ’81 (CEO of Bank of America) have done with The Haitian Project.  Deacon Moynihan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown in 1987 with a degree in Classics and graduated with Distinction from Providence College in 1999 with a degree in Religious Studies.

Drawing on his 15-plus years of experience living and working in Haiti, Deacon Moynihan will lay out why real change takes real involvement and talk about…

• The impact and rewards of effecting a positive change
• The holistic value of the traditional missionary approach to development and social advancement
• The importance of the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity in transformational development
• International Non-governmental Organizations:  Where they succeed and where they fail
• Opportunities for Brown students and alumni to get involved in THP

Through Deacon Moynihan’s examination of these issues, he makes the case for what works and what doesn’t in Post-Quake Haiti while demonstrating the important roles that service, subsidiarity and solidarity play in supporting Haiti’s ongoing development as a nation. 

When:  

Thursday, February 9, 2012

              5:30-6:15pm Reception with refreshments

              6:15-7:30pm Welcoming remarks followed by presentation

Where: 

Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown Street, Providence, RI

Cost:  

$8 for Brown Club of RI Premium Members and Young Alumni (’07-’11)

$10 for Brown Club of RI Members, Guests and Parents

*No charge for current Brown students

RSVP:

By February 7 online Or by mailing a check payable to the Brown Club of RI to:

Hank Richter ’80, 15 Teakwood Dr, Coventry, RI  02816.

Questions? 

Contact Hank at hank@homeprorhodeisland.com or at 401.474.2007

This event is sponsored by The Brown Club of Rhode Island in conjunction with the

Swearer Center for Public Service and CareerLAB’s “Careers in the Common Good”

If you would like to speak with The Haitian Project's Development Office about hosting an event, please contact Tim Scordato at timscordato@haitianproject.org or 815-484-8623.