How to Create Positive Change with $100

Who says one person can’t make a difference? Find out what five individuals did when they were each given $100 and assigned one simple task to make a positive change in their community.

By Wendy Kitts From Reader’s Digest, April 2011

It’s now mission complete for the first wave of Community Change Agents of the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce. In fall 2009 the chamber (which covers New Brunswick’s tri-community area of Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview) gave ten members $100, 30 days and one instruction: Make a positive change in your community. The tongue-in-cheek covert operation, complete with a top secret CD delivering the mission’s directives, surpassed even the chamber’s hopes.

Here are five of the most innovative projects, which created buzz with the public and the local media.


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