The Importance of a Promise
Amanda Messer |
TEDxWVU
• March 2019
At a young age, Amanda Messer learned the effect that promises broken have on relationships. Her father struggled with addiction and was not good with keeping his commitments to his little girl. In this TEDx talk, she explains how impactful broken promises are to people and what we can do to keep our promises.
Amanda Messer is the Co-Founder of because I said I would, an international social movement and nonprofit dedicated to the betterment of humanity through promises made and kept. Since September 4th, 2012, because I said I would has distributed over 10.3 million Promise Cards to over 153 countries, started local chapters of volunteer teams, developed free resources that have been downloaded over 1,000 times, delivered live character development programming to over 150,000 students and created awareness campaigns that have been seen by millions.