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Randy Barth is an American educational entrepreneur, author and business executive. He is the founder and chief executive officer of THINK Together, a non-profit organization that runs over 400 after-school programs serving over 100,000 students in California. Barth authored the 2015 book, ''THINK Together: How YOU can play a role in improving education in America''. == Life and career == Barth was born in the Los Angeles, CA suburb of Downey, CA, and grew up the middle of three boys in a two-bedroom house. He attended UCLA. After graduating in 1981 with a degree in economics, Randy launched his professional career as a stockbroker with EF Hutton in Whittier, CA, a suburb not far from Downey. He also worked at Drexel Burnham and Smith Barney.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Randy Barth Profile )〕 He attended the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. In 1994, Barth became an elder at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, where he was head of the church’s Mission Committee, focused on helping the area's homeless population. He read about gang problems in the Shalimar area of Costa Mesa, an area a few miles away, and how a group of local mothers were trying to take their neighborhood back from the gangs. He met with parents, youth, the police, city officials, and church leaders to put together a plan to set up a location where local students could go after school without being threatened by gangs. Local groups, including St. Joachim's Catholic Church and Women of Vision, offered support, and St. Andrew’s provided funding to establish the Shalimar Learning Center in February 1995.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UC Irvine: Focus on leadership )〕 Randy's wife Mary was the center's first director.〔Barth 2015, p.39〕 Momentum grew to expand the program, and THINK Together was founded, to build on the success of the Shalimar model. The name THINK came from the first letters of Teaching, Helping, Inspiring and Nurturing Kids. Barth served as the organization’s volunteer Board Chair, while also holding the role of CEO for five years at National Management, a $40 million privately held regional transportation company he joined after a client's spouse, the CEO, unexpectedly died.〔Barth 2015, p. 46.〕 In 2003, National Management was sold and Barth joined THINK Together as the CEO. Further expansion took place after the passage of California Proposition 49, the After School Education & Safety Program Act (ASES), which provided dedicated state revenues to after school programming. A large expansion of state funding occurred in the 2006-2007 school year with California’s implementation of ASES.〔Barth 2015, p. 49.〕 By Winter 2006, THINK Together was a three million dollar organization with one hundred employees, serving four thousand students at twenty-five locations around Orange County.〔Barth 2015, p. 58.〕 Due to the 2006 increase in state funding, THINK Together scaled up to 180 sites in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. In 2008, Barth secured an $8.5M donation from billionaire Donald Bren, which at the time was the largest donation made by Bren outside of his Orange County base. In 2015, Barth published his first book, ''THINK Together: How YOU can play a role in improving education in America'', co-written with former LA Times reporter, Jennifer Delson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=THINK Together: How YOU can play a role in improving education in America )〕 When interviewed by the Huffington Post, Barth stated that "Part of the reason for the book is: Hey, we're seeing some good things happening, and nobody's talking about them! We're trying to shine a light onto that and kind of change the conversation so the conversation becomes more solution-oriented, and say, 'Hey, where are the things that are working?' Because the conversation is so dominated by the major media markets -- what happens in L.A., New York, Chicago, and D.C. -- and actually, we see innovation happening in places outside of that, and it doesn't get the visibility. I think that's the hopefulness, as we have this spread of suburban poverty, and even the inner-city stuff. I do think there are promising solutions, and we have to get the conversation to be more solution-oriented." In addition to his work with THINK Together, Barth served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Santa Ana Chamber Board Members )〕 and serves on the leadership team of the California Afterschool Network. Barth is also on UC Irvine's Department of Education Leadership Council.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UC Irvine Leadership Council )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Randy Barth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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