Areena

05/22/2017

Art of Men partnered with Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer & DaBearsBlog.com to bring more than 2,100 books to the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center ("JTDC"). 61 locations - bars, restaurants, coffee shops, cafes, ice cream parlors - participated across Chicagoland.

Below is a video of the event. We hope you'll take a few minutes and watch.

Art of Men partnered with Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer & DaBearsBlog.com to bring more than 2,100 books to the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center…

03/15/2016

The origin story of Art of Men.

“If you build it, he will come.” In Field of Dreams, a movie that speaks to guys of every age, Ray Kinsella heard a voice in an Iowa cornfield. “If you build it, he will come,” the voice said. The “build” referred to plowing that cornfield and replacing it with a baseball park. The “he” was the ghos…

03/09/2016

All Art of Men emails (blogs) are now catalogued on our website. Check them out!

http://artofmen.org/category/weeklyemail/

0 Email #13: Automated Culture & the Future (3/4/16) by ArtofMen 03/04/2016 Call the bank. Call your cable company. Call your airline. Call just about anybody you’re doing business with and what do you get? Automation. Press 1 for this, 2 for that & 3 to stay on hold for the next 90 minutes. That li…

02/26/2016

"Everyone is so preoccupied with looking at their phones all day long and taking selfies that they have zero sense of anyone around them."

I still remember the voice of Mel Allen, longtime New York Yankees broadcaster, accompanying the crack of a bat and another Yankee home run.But that was a long time ago. Now what's going, going, gone is civility and courtesy. And quite frankly, it's generational. Everyone is so preoccupied with loo…

02/05/2016

Founder Art Gurwitz on Time Warner Cable's "One-Hour Appointment Window" and the importance of time.

Time. Everyone has the same 24 hours a day, 168 hours a week. Some people make the most of those hours. Most people don’t. But time is everything. It’s our most precious resource. Every minute of every day is an opportunity to make our lives and the lives of those around us better. So why are people…

01/29/2016

Founder Art Gurwitz weighs in on Ted Cruz and "New York values"

This week Ted Cruz criticized Donald Trump and his “New York values.” It got me thinking. What does this guy know about about New York values? Here’s a story for him. It’s November 2001. I’m at The Garden. Couple of months after 9/11. NYC is recovering. NYC is tough. We don’t stay down. That attack…

12/08/2015

Happy to join and this week to talk diversity & inclusion and how we can all .

12/07/2015

This week founder Art Gurwitz will be joining the Jean King Leadership Initiative discussing diversity and inclusion. There is power in each of our differences, and we can create positive change when we . Join the conversation. http://www.bjkli.org/

Convene global forums educating women and men on the critical issues surrounding the importance of inclusive leadership, and the role every individual plays in driving change. Promote and facilitate platforms for conversation and action across all levels of an organization

11/30/2015

See photos and read testimonials from Art of Men's Thanksgiving event with Union Settlement Association.

Here’s what we hope everyone reading this email will do in the next week: FEED SOMEBODY. Have one less drink at the bar. Brown bag your lunch to work one day. Don’t order that movie on demand. Instead, find your nearest food pantry and bring a few cans of soup or a few boxes of rice...

11/20/2015

Art of Men salutes ex-NFL star Warrick Dunn, who is now giving away home to single-parent families. Our kind of guy.

Home 144 , Hurricane Sandy family. Thank you & the Debartolo Family Foundation pic.twitter.com/VylFavqrQS— Warrick Dunn () September 2, 2015 In what is probably the most uplifting ex-athlete...

11/20/2015

Art of Men members will be at Union Settlement (237 E. 104th Street, NYC) tomorrow morning at 10 AM to distribute Thanksgiving turkeys to needy families. Join us!

11/12/2015

AoM founder Art Gurwitz is profiled by Baruch College Alumni Association. Thanks so much for this wonderful piece.

Alumnus Arthur Gurwitz (MBA ’77) founded nonprofit Art of Men to provide a simple and convenient way for people to find service projects in their