LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES IN THE NEWS
VOICE OF AMERICA
Leadership Trainer Builds International Youth Activist Movement
By Michael Lipin
27 August 2008
This trip to Namibia marked the birth of "Leadership Initiatives," the international development organization Mister Bailly started. Through American University, he had visited China, Japan, Angola, Botswana and Nigeria. He had seen how these countries were developing and how he could take part in their development. He discovered that he could use his studies to establish a class for students in Namibia.
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BRAINSTORMING-
an investigative international online magainze
Antoine Eloi - Director of Operations and Co- founder of Leadership Initiatives
By Talia Delgado
20 June 2008
Antoine has been working with Leadership Initiatives since May 2004. Having studied and worked with Executive Director Marshall J. Bailly at American University, he believed in Marshall's vision and was willing to work alongside his colleague and friend to establish a credible, efficient, and successful organization.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MAYOR'S OFFICE
Marshall Bailly Selected For Mayor's Community Service Award
By DC Government
21 September 2004
Marshall J. Bailly II, Ward 3 resident, has decided to change the world. He is the president
and founder of an international nonprofit dedicated to bringing empowerment to men, women,
and children across the globe. Marshall's vision began in sixth grade. He knew he wanted to see the world and make it a
better place with the help of friends and family.
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AMERICAN WEEKLY
Student founds nonprofit to bring change to Namibia
By Sally Acharya
12 May 2004
Back in his hometown of Paw Paw, Michigan, 18-year-old Marshall Bailly had a lot of dreams for his future, but founding a nonprofit organization in Namibia had not occurred to him.
Few of his high school classmates, if they even went to college, left the state of Michigan. Bailly was taking a big step just by coming to Washington, D.C. He could not have imagined that, within two years, he would find himself in a sun-baked African nation, helping to bring change to refugees in squatter camps, young people endangered by AIDS and drugs, and students coping with a dilapidated high school.
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