Roanoke Integrated Partners of Integrity Leadership Council

Roanoke Integrated Partners of Integrity

Leadership Council

Community, Advocacy, Connect

Roanoke Integrated Partners of Integrity Leadership Council

COMMUNITY, ADVOCACY, CONNECT

By partnering and supporting groups and individuals that encourage people to organize, get involved, and make a difference, – Roanoke Integrated Partners of Integrity Leadership Council will advance fundamental values and work to build a brighter future for generations to come.

Community Partner Spotlight

Melvin Ward

Melvin Ward is the owner/operator of Five Star Touring and Chauffeur Services LLC and Kool Kids Learning, Fun and Party Bus.

Melvin has always been a people person since the start of his career. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY moving to Richmond where his career started as a Behavioral Health Technician at St. Mary’s Hospital then to Richmond Community Hospital as a Team Leader in Environmental Services. Melvin started playing Santa Claus for the children in the Hospital and helping employees and families with donations towards their Thanksgiving. Melvin’s passion to help people in need has stretched to Roanoke, VA over the past ten years. Melvin has taken the initiative to feed 15-20 families for Thanksgiving and also give out gifts for Christmas to the men’s homeless shelter and women’s battered shelter. His team feeds the homeless monthly with the help of local community sponsors. Melvin’s mission is to build a housing community for the homeless. He believes in providing help for those in need.

"Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the cetre - from the heart."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

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"Be of service. Whether your make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need."

- Gillian Anderson

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"Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

- Tim O'Reilly

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A Billion Hours of Good

I highly recommend “A BILLION HOURS of GOOD -Changing the world 14 minutes at a time” by award-winning author Christopher Field. In this memorable work, Field reminds us that “you don’t need more money or time or even another election cycle to bring transformational change to your community. What you need is to believe that daily micro-doses of good over years and years can create a great return”.

Field breaks these “micro-doses of good” into intervals of 14 minutes per day. “You see, 14 minutes a day is exactly 1 percent of our day. Let’s do the math: 24 hours x 60 minutes/ 100 = 14.4 minutes a day.” Throughout “A BILLION HOURS of GOOD“, Field provides an extensive collection of tools and sources of inspiration to help spark a movement for extraordinary good. He reinforces the notion that “real and lasting change comes more often in tablespoons than in buckets” Field ends this powerful piece of work with an admonition -“Our responsibility in a world filled with suffering is to care, show up, and act. Not once, not twice, but a little bit every day for the rest of our lives.”

Please grab a copy, give it a read, and let me know what you think!