The ManKind Project(tm) . Missions of Service

Missions of Service

The ManKind Project challenges each man to find and develop his own life’s mission ... and to live that mission fully with the support of a powerful network of other men. Men involved in MKP live with a sense of purpose grounded in their own unique experiences. With a committment to self-awareness and universalism - they create a web of interconnected communities working to change the world for the better.

The Ron Hering Mission of Service Award

Each year the ManKind Project recognizes one man or a group of men from each community who is taking action to live his mission in the world.

If you don't have a clear sense of purpose, the ManKind Project will help you get in touch with your own unique calling in the world. If you are living a mission in your life, MKP will help you get even further clarity about your mission and provide you with a broad community of support to help you live your purpose.

Click on names or pictures to learn more about the service these men are living in the world.

2008 Ron Hering Award Winners

YEAR	NAME	PERSONAL MISSION	CENTER
2008	Rex Dabling	Personal Mission: I create a world of love and understanding by living love and patience.	Intermountain Center, USA
2008	Charles Anderson	Personal Mission: To create peace in New Orleans	New Orleans, LA, USA
2008	Jon Leidel	Personal Mission: I create a world of healthy children by being an authentic role model and sharing my wisdom with them.	Greater Carolinas
2008	Gary Garrison	Personal Mission: Continuously to rekindle love and relationship through listening, creativity, playfulness and blessing.	Canada West
2008	Marc Fabre	Personal Mission: I create a world of liberty by expressing myself simply, clearly and fully.	Francophone (French Speaking Community)
2008	Rick Phillips	Personal Mission: To love, learn and serve, and to interact with others with compassion, courage and presence.	Northern California, USA
2008	Brian Courtney	Personal Mission: I co-create empowered wholeness by sharing love, strength and wisdom through leadership.	Los Angeles, CA, USA
2008	The Huntington Integration Group	Group Mission: Help those effected by domestic violence by taking action to support them.	Metro NY, USA
2008	Curtis Mitchell	Personal Mission: I facilitate greatness in others.	Greater Washingtion, DC, USA
2008	Tom Cowgill	Personal Mission: By God’s Grace and Power, I create a healing, peaceful world by helping others claim their freedom and live from their true heart!	Philadelphia, PA, USA
2008	Wayne Luthi	Personal Mission: To Create a world of inclusive joy by reflecting back the spirit in others.	Kentucky, USA
2008	T.C. Townsend	Personal Mission: I co-create a world of enjoyment and permission by trusting the process and surrendering the outcome.	San Diego, CA, USA
2008	Michael Galgan	Personal Mission: I create a world that embraces the sacred flight of spirit by sharing my gifts and helping others discover the gifts within themselves.	North Texas, USA
2008	Duncan Badine	Personal Mission: I support needs getting met through service to others and asking for what I want.	Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2008	Sawyer Robertson	Personal Mission: I create a world of safety and integrity by speaking truthfully from my heart.	Northwest Center, USA
2008	Burke Denman	Personal Mission: I build community by opening my heart and dropping my weapons and my armor.	New Mexico, USA
2006	Mark Avery	Personal Mission: To co-create a Universe of safety, beauty and enlightenment through Unconditional loving.	Sioux City, IA, USA
2008	Rasada Goldblatt	Personal Mission: I create a world of harmony and understanding by sharing love and self mastery.	South Africa
2008	Owen Williams	Personal Mission: My mission is to create a world of men embracing themselves fully by modeling this in my community.	Windsor / Detroit, CAN/USA
2008	Bill Baue	Personal Mission: To create harmony by making light.	New England, USA
2008	Doug Szper	Personal Mission: I create a world of harmony by facilitating awakened consciousness.	Wisconsin, USA
2008	Ken Stoneburg	Personal Mission: I create a world of connection and understanding by being an authentic and compassionate communicator	Arizona, USA
2008	Michael Fallahay	Personal Mission: I create peace by embracing the Oneness.	Indiana, USA
2008	Boys to Men Mentoring Network	Charlie Borden, Rick Gravrok, Jim Lovestar, Stephen Borden, Michael Templeton, Tony Dulski, Kevin Obsatz, and Cris Harper Group Mission: The Boys to Men Mentoring Network provides boys and men a way to create adult lives of service to themselves, their families, and their communities through mentoring, activities, and adventure	Minnesota, USA
2008	John Kurk	Personal Mission: To bring deep healing to men and women globally through loving and empowering themselves and myself.	United Kingdom
2008	Robert Shull	Personal Mission: I create a world of order by following my Spiritual Path.	Memphis, KY, USA
2008	King Mott	Personal Mission: I am the one that creates the space for all to come and be themselves by attending to conscious ritual and a life of love.	New Jersey, USA
2008	Jeff Keith	Personal Mission: I open the World’s heart by opening my heart.	Colorado, USA
2008	Art Zemon	Personal Mission: To teach others to build whole and healthy families	St. Louis, KY, USA
2008	Ken Rogers	Personal Mission: “To create a world of safety and peace by helping men heal their wounds.	Houston, TX, USA
2008	David Cordes	Personal Mission: I create sacred space where beauty can grow and flourish.	est Canada East

2007 Ron Hering Award Winners

YEAR	NAME	PERSONAL MISSION	CENTER
2007	Chris Sobczak	Personal Mission: I create a peaceful and accepting world by modeling honesty, integrity and vulnerability.	Canada West
2007	Gordon Clay	Personal Mission: "To end men's isolation."	Northern California, USA
2007	Foster Mobley	Personal Mission: I co-create a world of compassion, presence and truth by serving others, living in gratitude and awakening to my shadows. I am a work in progress.	Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007	Frank De Santis	Personal Mission: I create a world of peace by motivating others through my actions and my deeds	Metro NY, USA
2007	Stephen J. Simon	Personal Mission: To help repair and heal the Planet by cleaning up and eliminating dangerous materials and decaying infrastructure that are the legacy from 50 years of the Cold War.	Greater Washingtion, DC, USA
2007	Tristan Smith (posthumously)	Personal Mission: I create a world of love, integrity and acceptance by mentoring and leading.	Philadelphia, PA, USA
2007	Mike Geoghegan	Personal Mission: To create a world of love and compassion by honoring the strength within myself and the gold in others.	Kentucky, USA
2007	Terry Larkin	Personal Mission: I create a fully alive world by living fully through risk, faith, and trust	San Diego, CA, USA
2007	Willie Baronet	Personal Mission: I create a safe, vibrant and joyful world by listening, encouraging, and modeling fierce self expression.	North Texas, USA
2007	Stefan Hermann	Personal Mission: I inspire the re-writing of future by modeling, teaching and coaching on the sacred path.	Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2007	Grant Williams	Personal Mission: I co-create a loving and compassionate world by empowering myself as a teacher and healer.	Northwest Center, USA
2007	Stan Eads	Personal Mission: To create a world where men own their power with integrity by owning my own.	New Mexico, USA
2006	Bob Christensen	Personal Mission: To create heaven on earth by manifesting peace and love within myself and other	Sioux City, IA, USA
2007	Tony Naidoo and the USIKO MKP men	Personal Mission: I build a community of peace, healing and nurturance and respect for cultural diversity by leading, mentoring, guiding and supporting others to develop their full individual potential and their awareness of social justice challenges in “being our brother’s keeper!”	South Africa
2007	Edward Jones	Personal Mission: “I am a vision of the world in which all humanity is inspired, connected, compassionate and joyful.”	Windsor / Detroit, CAN/USA
2007	Mark Morey	Personal Mission: I create a community of love and connection by reclaiming indigenous ways of being.	New England, USA
2007	The Truth Project	Personal Mission: "Together we empower men to share their Truth and restore community."	Wisconsin, USA
2007	Earl Hipp	Personal Mission: To create a world of loving, accountable, and empowered people.	Arizona, USA
2007	Jimmy Nocon	Personal Mission: “To create a sober and healthy world by channeling G-d’s healing energy with my compassion, creativity and love”.	Indiana, USA
2007	Peter Thomas D'Ascoli	Personal Mission: My mission as a man among men is to seek a world of happiness by listening to others, to my inner selves, feelings, aspirations and to speak from a gentle honesty. Further as a man among men to contribute by touching others as lover, father, artist, healer, leader, teacher and friend.	Minnesota, USA
2007	Robert Bell	Personal Mission: "To love unconditionally".	United Kingdom
2007	Stephan McLaughlin, Jr.	Personal Mission: To create harmony by loving and nurturing himself and others into wholeness and integrity.	Memphis, KY, USA
2007	Jon Levitt	Personal Mission: I co-create healing and bless life through affirmation, compassion, courage, fierceness and grace.	New Jersey, USA
2007	Jeffrey Weisberg	Personal Mission: I create a world of peace and deep connection by loving and leading from my heart.	Florida, USA
2007	Ed Carter	Personal Mission: To promote love, joy, and healing in my world by loving myself first, having fun, and creating opportunities for others to heal.	Georgia, USA
2007	Michael Killian	Personal Mission: “I create a world of abundance by healing myself and others.”	St. Louis, KY, USA
2007	Keith Liles	Personal Mission: “I create a world of healing through hope, beginning with myself.”	Houston, TX, USA
2007	Chris Arthur	Personal Mission: “To create a world of peace and joy through challenge and compassionI create a world of abundance by healing myself and others.”	Upstate New York, NY, USA
2007	Hal Klegman	Personal Mission: “I create a a healthy world by co-creating sustainable mentoring programs for boys, by mentoring mentors and by creating mentoring opportunities..”	Chicago, IL, USA
2007	Charles Gruber	Personal Mission: “To create a world overflowing with compassion by owning my impeccable warrior..”	Kansas City, KS, USA
2007	Jim Grant	Personal Mission: “I create Abundance by working with the Water of Life.”	est Canada East

2006 Ron Hering Winners

YEAR	NAME	PERSONAL MISSION	CENTER
2006	Bobby Taylor	Personal Mission To feed all hungry hearts through teaching emotional literacy and touch.	Memphis, TN, USA
2006	John Frost	Personal Mission: I co-create a place where Creator dwells, we’ll leave the porch light on.	Los Angeles, USA
2006	Harold Cates	Personal Mission: To help men and women reach new levels of consciousness by boldly modeling the way.	Kentucky, USA
2006	Terry Ward	Personal Mission: Creating Healthy Couples, Homes, Individuals, Neighborhoods & Communities, by building & modeling, strong, loving, connected, relationships within all families.	Houston, TX, USA
2006	Mbuyu "Puma" Wa Mbuyu	Personal Mission: As a man among men, I create a world of acceptance and opportunity for all.	Greater Washingtion, DC, USA
2006	Martin Brossman	Personal Mission: I support people in living lives they love--lives so filled with meaning and fulfillment that on their death bed there are moved to tears by the beautiful life they lived. My life is committed to contributing to a world that works for all us.	Greater Carolinas, USA
2006	Matt Zavadil	Personal Mission: I create a joyful world of empowered people by passionately inspiring myself and others to awaken to, and engage with, our authentic magnificence.	Georgia, USA
2006	François Lutt	Personal Mission: Je crée un monde libre en montrant que chacun peut aller jusqu’au bout de sa vérité (To create a free world by showing that each man may go to the end of his truth and by blessing every man whatever his way may be)	Francophone (French Speaking Community)
2006	Norman Lussier	Personal Mission: I create a world of love, peace and acceptance by sharing the teachings of the creator.	Canada East
2006	Jim Mulenos	Personal Mission: I create a safe and peaceful world by creating safe and peaceful harbors for others.	Colorado, USA
2006	Harry M. Steckman	Personal Mission: To use the power of music to teach others and to heal	Chicago, IL, USA
2006	Danny Spitler	Personal Mission: To live life passionately and to be a resource provider for worthy people and causes.	Arizona, USA
2006	Ted Harrison	Personal Mission: As a Man among men I am a voice for Peace, Balance, Freedom and Unity of the Human Tribe	Minnesota, USA
2006	Sean Sheehan	Personal Mission: I create a safe and loving world by speaking my truth.	New England, USA
2006	Tom FitzPatrick	Personal Mission: To help men gain more power, passion, and peace through my presentations, workshops and individual counseling.	Windsor / Detroit, CAN/USA
2006	William Marinucci	Personal Mission: To Bless the world with unconditional love, by being in and of service to spirit	Rochester, NY, USA
2006	Mohamed Ali	Personal Mission: By loving others I learn to love myself.	Britain, UK
2006	Dennis Nicely	Personal Mission: To co-create a compassionate world by seeking first to understand, loving unconditionally, and blessing	St. Louis, USA
2006	David Collins	Personal Mission: I empower others by teaching them to take personal responsibility for themselves. This is achieved by practicing unconditional love and acceptance.	South Africa
2006	Robert P Sheehan	Personal Mission: To co-create a world were all are inspired to achieve their very best and to do that with unconditional love	Sioux City, IA, USA
2006	Steve Murray	Personal Mission: I help make life worth living by thinking and talking about Purpose.	Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2006	Mark Anderson	Personal Mission: My mission is to serve God by creating and protecting nurturing environments by comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable.	San Diego, CA, USA
2006	Harry Neuman	Personal Mission: To co-create a world, with greater loving kindness, through healing myself and serving others.	Philadelphia, PA, USA
2006	Steven Crozier	Personal Mission: “I illuminate the interconnected world by communicating truthfully and loving unconditionally.”	Northwest Center, USA
2006	Jerome Beauchamp	Personal Mission: "Live my Truth, Share my Truth, Give only Love, and nothing else. By doing this, those that I pass by will be better off than before we met."	Northern CA , USA
2006	Richard Garcia, Stan Koehler, & Tom Pitner	Group mission: Brought MKP/Metro New York & Peace on the Streets (a non-profit martial arts & meditation dojo) together to serve the neighborhood in Spanish Harlem. By 2010, our vision is to have 100 New Warrior Brothers from this inner city neighborhood leading 100 support groups in the neighborhood.	Metro New York
2006	Tom Zizzo	Personal Mission: Tom Zizzo has taken the Boys To Men program and begun the hard work of mentoring in the NYC/NJ area.	New Jersey, USA
2006	Leonard Sobczak	Personal Mission: To create perfect harmony in the world by healing myself, nature and others.	Wisconsin, USA