Sponsor the School for Ethics and Global Leadership (SEGL)

I am incredibly excited about this project and hope anyone reading this page will consider making a donation; even very modest amounts are appreciated.  The School for Ethics and Global Leadership, presently scheduled to open in the Spring of 2008, will be a semester program for high school juniors, an intense and focused educational experience for students to encounter timely ethical questions both in academic work and in the practical context of United States politics.  Noah Bopp, the program's founder, is an inspiring teacher, a charismatic project manager, and an untiring advocate of instruction in ethics at the high school level.  He and I worked together at St. George's School, where we both became enamored of place-based, experiential education, tightly integrated curriculums, and the import of a cooperative intellectual community.  Noah and I flirted at that time with starting a school of our own and even drafted a few plans and courted the advice of many wiser than us.  After a few years working at The Mountain School of Milton Academy, the oldest program of its kind, located in Vershire, VT, Noah is now completing a degree in educational entrepreneurship, and our initial musings have grown into something real and very well conceived.  To read a short description of the program's structure, aims, and timeline, and to read about Noah's experience, education, and qualifications, please visit the school's own website.  Please understand that this is a young project.  The website is new and will undergo a great deal of construction in the coming weeks and months.  If you have additional questions or would like to see the complete business plan, Noah would be glad to oblige.  Please contact him directly at the address below.

To Contribute:
Of course, starting a school requires significant investment.  Contributions made at this stage in the project will contribute largely to supporting Noah for the next year while he secures a location, begins any necessary renovations, initiates a marketing campaign, works with potential sending schools, designs an initial curriculum, obtains the necessary accreditation, and ultimately hires a faculty.  Already he has collected an impressive list of advisors

Please consider sending a check to the address below or making a pledge.  Noah has begun the process of attaining nonprofit status.  If you'd like to wait to contribute until SEGL becomes an official nonprofit, please consider sending a pledge to . Noah will contact you as soon as nonprofit status is approved.

If you indicate in the memo portion of your check that you are supporting my ride there will be two consequences.  First, 15% of your contribution will go toward offsetting expenses related to the ride.  Second, I will write you a personal thank you for your contribution after the ride is complete; please be forgiving if it takes me a little while.  If you prefer that all of your contribution go directly to SEGL, your contribution is of course still appreciated.  Simply do not note anything about my ride on the check.  If, inexplicably, you prefer that all of your contribution go directly to supporting my adventure, contact me directly.

Noah will provide me with the names and addresses of those who contribute, so that I can write to you.  Particular donation amounts will remain strictly confidential - that is, I will not see them.  The total collected, however, will be published on this site after the ride is complete.