At the Power 100 Summit a passionate, innovative, and now much closer group of students gained invaluable information that was both inspiring and, at least to me, made the ultimate challenge of making poverty history much more tangible within our lifetimes. I think we took a lot of things with us: inspiration, understanding, responsibility, challenge, even pressure, but what we did not take with us was a feeling of hopelessness. Our capacity for success will drive us to do great things in the next year, and I’m sure we’ll all have great things to report.

What we need to remember is that as powerful as we felt during the summit, at the end of the day we are only, albeit talented ones, 114 people. It would be a shame to keep all this excitement and desire to make change to ourselves, so I encourage all of you to spread this infectious passion for change and the expertise we were lucky enough to absorb to as many places as you can reach. Teach those students who have already shown their dedication to ONE at your schools. Use the communication lessons we learned from Kimberly and Tom to make an engaging presentation tailored for classrooms of students, the local press, and legislators. Like Patrick said, what’s so great about ONE is that we aren’t an organization, we’re a movement, and our success only comes when we not only excite ourselves but those around us as well.

So get out there and start inspiring people! HUZZAH!

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