Global Service Institute Chair Rita Cosby discusses the function of her app that links volunteers with charities, and how boxing legend Evander Holyfield and Super Bowl champion Joe Theismann got involved.
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a new app is making it easier
than ever to give back
all the while instilling values
of patriotism and service in our
nations, young people,
the Global Service institute
connecting nonprofits in need
with local volunteers,
and they are getting some of the
biggest names in television and
sports to help lead the charge
got a couple of champions three
really to help lay it out for
us,
tv host and chair of the Global
Service Institute, Rita Cosby
Boxing Legend and Champ Evander
Holyfield and Super Bowl
champion Joe Theismann, all with
us here this morning,
Rita its your project. Lets
start with. You
tell us about this app this
project matching volunteers to
service projects.
Well, you know, will I was
looking at what was happening in
the country
and I partnered with Long Island
University, which is a highly
acclaimed highly accredited.
They have more than two hundred and sixty five
accredited programs long
established university,
and we were talking originally
about me- maybe doing a speech or
event there.
Then we set lets do something
bold and transformative. Overall,
we created the global service
instituted at Liu.
What it is its programs- we are
talking speakers
we are talking scholarships,
a whole array and part of it is
this incredible app that you
just brought up, which is called
the global service app,
and it will instantly connect
volunteers with charities that
are in dire need,
but its really a full service
program at Long Island
University, because Global
Institute to inspire generations
about giving back
not just professionally but also
personally,
and we want to be able to make a
difference, especially at this
time in the world,
we saw a void in education.
We said lets do something that
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im, proud to be a part of it.
Will you got huge names to be a
part like the two gentlemen on
our screen
lets start with you, Champ Ehave
Ander. I spoke with you not long
ago on a different network about
perhaps coming back to fight in
the ring.
At that time it was about
charity as well,
about giving back.
Tell me ehave, Ander, why
service and volunteerism is so
important to you. The role faith
has played in making this a big
support of your life.
Well, its important to me
because, as a kid I grew up
poor
if I wouldnt have been given
that opportunity, I wouldnt be
the person I am.
I actually went to the boys club
and didnt have the money, but
the lady that was working there.
She allowed me to come in
because she didnt want me to
walk back home by myself at six
years old,
so she gave me that quarter that
quarter gave me the opportunity
to be the person. Ohio am today,
will Joe one of the great acts
of service in my life as a
cowboy fan to be able to forgive
any red skin legend. But here we
are,
and I have to ask you, so what
is it? I know you have a
long term relationship with
Rita.
You guys know each other.
What is it about service and
specifically what you hope to
give back?
Well, I think, thank you
will
laughter.
The thing is, I feel, like
some of us are so blessed in our
lives.
I think every one of us are
and its an opportunity to be
able to give something back with
the Global Service Institute. It
connects universities as Rita
mentioned, but it also
highlights the educational
process that we are involved. In
now
I mean its a chance for people
to actually look at whats going
on.
There are so many things
happening.
There is the fires.
You have the floods,
you have the social unrest that
were dealing with its a chance
to be able to get out and serve
others.
I really believe that were put
on this earth not to be served
but to serve others
and thats. What the Global
Service Institute is able to do
im proud to be an honorary
board member
and I they hope, inspires other
people to say: look, everybody
can take the time
you can take the time and make
the time to be able to give
back,
and I think, thats what is so
vitally important.
This is a time when people need
our help
its a great opportunity,
especially for the young people,
to be able to go out and say:
listen. Can I get involved in
other ways in helping other
peoples lives to get better?
All three of you important to
point out, as have you noted, not
just important about giving back
to others in divisive time when
everybody is pulling so far
apart,
good for the soul to get out and
help somebody
Rita Joe Ehave Ander, once you.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-19.