Thursday, August 23, 2012

Newly crowned Miss Teen USA to fight bullying on tour with Karen Klein

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Karen has partnered with Miss Teen USA 2012 Logan West to support her anti-bullying initiative, “Bully Proof: Empowering Children Today to Stop Bullying Tomorrow.” The program, which Logan started in Connecticut, aims to empower student leaders to help prevent bullying in their community.

Logan West, who was a victim of bullying at a young age decided to join Klein on the upcoming No Bully Tour 2012 as a Co-Host in Washington, D.C. and Hartford, CT her home State.

“I’m excited,“ Klein said. “Just being able to go to several different states and spread the message, and also be able to work with Miss Teen USA is going to be great.”

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Klein decided to create the foundation after meeting with Chris Surrey, the Senior Director of Paintbox Labs, a New York-based organization that promotes cultural understanding. Surrey interviewed Klein for an unreleased documentary called “Bullying Behavior in America,“ and she indicated to him that she would like to do something positive with the donation money.

“I told Karen we were not just going to do a foundation, but a foundation that would actually be doing something and not just putting money into an account,“ Surrey told TODAY.com. “It was about her becoming an advocate of her own story. You rarely hear about kids bullying the elderly, so we wanted to use that as a platform to get into schools to assist them to curb the problem.”

Together, they will create educational content on the subject of bullying, provide resources to those organizations in need of help, and assist in developing anti-bullying programs in schools across America.

Friday, August 17, 2012

Bullied bus monitor using donations to fight bullying



After receiving more than $700,000 in donations following the release of a viral video of her being viciously taunted by a group of middle school students, Karen Klein has used the money to launch an anti-bullying foundation.

Klein, 68, is a retired school bus monitor from Greece, N.Y., who received donations from at least 32,000 people online in less than two months after the taunting videos were posted on June 19 and received more than eight million total views. Looking for something positive to do with a portion of the donations, she has created the Karen Klein Anti-Bullying Foundation.

“I thought it would be a great idea, and I’m hoping this foundation will seriously help all these kids,“ Klein told TODAY.com. “It’s also not just kids. When you’re a kid being bullied, you should talk to an adult. When the adult is being bullied, I don’t know who the heck they can talk to. That’s why I want to help.“
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