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Remember when life brings challenges — it also brings opportunity!

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Jon Bon Jovi

Rutgers University-Camden Commencement 2015, 2015

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Bon Jovi illustrated this principle through the story of his Philadelphia Soul arena football team. What began as a rockstar's lark — 'laughing with his bandmates about calling plays in the owners box' — evolved into something far more significant when the team became a vehicle for philanthropy. One bitter cold night in 2006, he looked out his hotel window and saw a man sleeping outside, huddled against the cold. That moment redirected his philanthropic focus to homelessness. He connected with Sister Mary Scullion, and together they built a partnership through Project HOME that continued for nearly a decade. 'We may have lost money,' he said of the football venture, 'but we won on and off the field.' The quote distilled a pattern Bon Jovi had seen throughout his unconventional journey: every challenge — from the bumpy road of arena football ownership to confronting homelessness — had opened doors to something more meaningful than the original plan.

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