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February 3, 2012: This is Eric Mondgock, Program Acquisition Director and please accept my introduction to Temple University Television, TUTV, Philadelphia. We are one of the largest education television station with an audience reach of over 1.7 million residents. I am looking to acquire programs focusing on instructional, musical, global and educational series for broadcast throughout Philadelphia. TUTV began broadcast a few months back and there is a large
interest to promote high quality inspirational program opportunities in Philadelphia.
TUTV would be very interested to broadcast your production: 17 and Unidentified. I am familiar with this beautiful production and all audiences should view as well. Philadelphia has a very large culturally diverse population and our viewers will very much appreciate your spirited productions. We are an independent education station and can accept DVDs or mini tape to broadcast.
January 19, 2012 It’s official! GP opens offices in France and is recognized as an “Association loi 1901” in France! You can see the proof here
October 2, 2011: Thank you to the MA Outdoor Volunteer Experience theMOVE
Who said Global Potential stopped doing community service when we came back to the U.S. after travelling?:) To the contrary! GP continues to be involved in its local communities! Today GP youth picked harvested carrots and collard in Lincoln, MA, to be able to feed 140 families with Food for Free project. Thank you to theMOVE for this beautiful collaboration with us today. This is how the world continues to get better! Collaboration! Work on the farm! Getting outside of your comfort zones and doing GOOD!
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New Partnership Global Potential and Miguel Batista Foundation
Global Potential Partners with the Miguel Batista Foundation for the First Time! This was marked by Miguel Batista’s amazing youth participants in his foundation who came down for our youth conference in the Dominican Republic on August 12 to August 14, to celebrate International Youth Year together alongside Global Potential participants in a youth open space conference!
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DIA INTERNACIONAL DE LA JUVENTUD, 12 DE AGOSTO DEL 2011
COMUNICADO DE PRENSA: CAMBIEMOS NUESTRO MUNDO CON POTENCIAL GLOBAL
Barahona, Republica Dominicana y Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 12 de agosto: El 12 de agosto es Día Internacional de la Juventud declarado por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas (ONU). Hoy día y este fin de semana, el equipo de Global Potential juntara mas de 600 personas entre la Republica Dominicana y Nicaragua, para colaborar en temáticas de mejor igualdad entre los jóvenes de ambos sexos y hacer de ese día especial una conferencia abierta para desarrollar los lideres juveniles de la nueva generación del siglo 21. Ese día es necesario para celebrar y buscar soluciones por la situación de los jóvenes en el mundo: la pobreza de oportunidades, de empleos, de educación, de avanzamiento y movilidad social. Este ano, será la octava vez que Global Potential junto a miles de otras organizaciones organiza conferencias juveniles de espacio abierto.
Organizaciones sin fines de lucro y de empoderamiento juvenil como Global Potential, basado en Nueva York y Boston en los EEUU de septiembre a junio, y con actividades de intercambio en la Republica Dominicana, Haití y Nicaragua en los meses de julio e agosto cada ano, desarrollan actividades para dar mas representación y participación de jóvenes en la vida de la sociedad. Gracias a estas iniciativas, jóvenes toman decisiones mas importantes en el mundo, como nuevos lideres, en temas de la globalización, tecnología y información. Los jóvenes buscan sus soluciones apropiadas para resolver problemas sobre el VIH/SIDA, conflictos armados y aun como transmitir el conocimiento de sus padres e abuelos al nivel intergeneracional.
Desde el 2007, Global Potential ha invertido en mas de 300 jóvenes de zonas urbanas en los EEUU que salen de familias inmigrantes generalmente, y en mas de 900 jóvenes en zonas rurales en Barahona en la Republica Dominicana (Batey 7, Batey 8, Cuchilla, Blocks de Mena), en Haiti (Cité Soleil, Bas Gormand) y en la regiones de Matagalpa, Leon y Bluefields en Nicaragua (El Hatillo, Chagüitillo, Nagarote, Rama Cay).
Global Potential es un emprendimiento social organizado y formado por jóvenes de una base 100% de voluntarios quienes encuentran juntos nuevas maneras de enfrentar los problemáticos los mas graves de nuestra sociedad, consistiendo en combatir el racismo, la pobreza, la discriminación y el trabajo indecente. Con dignidad y responsabilidad, jóvenes intercambian sus ideas en la culminación de este Ano Internacional de la Juventud que termina hoy reconocido por las Naciones Unidas. A partir de hoy, dediquémonos con seriedad a cambiar nuestro mundo con Potencial Global.
Por mayor información, favor de contactar Directora de Potencial Global Sarah Gogel, sarah@global-potential.org, para asistir a esas dos conferencias en Blocks de Mena, Barahona, Republica Dominicana o en El Hatillo, Sebaco, Matagalpa, Nicaragua.
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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY AUGUST 12 2011
Press Release: Let us change our World with Global Potential
Barahona, Dominican Republic and Matagalpa, Nicaragua, August 12, 2011: August 12, 2011 is the International Day of Youth declared by the United Nations, on which initiates two extremely important youth conferences organized by the not-for-profit organization Global Potential. These conferences will gather from August 12 to August 14 over 600 children, youth and families in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua to celebrate and openly discuss important topics of equality among youth of all genders, in an Open Space format. This will allow the participants to cover topics that affect the development of youth leaders in today’s new generation of the 21st Century. This day is necessary to further search for solutions with the realities that youth face in today’s world: lack of opportunities, employment, education and actual development for the social mobility of youth. This year represents the eighth time that the organization Global Potential alongside many other organizations around the world gathers youth in this context of open space for youth development.
Global Potential (GP) is a youth empowerment and Leadership non-profit organization based in New York and Boston throughout the year from September to June with activities in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua during the months of July and August every year. GP is a social entreprise composed of youth and young adults encouraging decisions that are key for our world for a new set of leaders to discuss topics on globalization, technology and information. Youth search for solutions that are appropriate to solve issues related to HIV/AIDS, armed conflict and transmitting intergenerational knowledge.
Since 2007, GP has invested in over 300 immigrant at-risk youth from urban zones in New York and Boston, and has positively impacted the lives of over 900 youth in rural zones in Barahona in the Dominican Republic (Batey 7, Batey 8, Cuchilla, Blocks de Mena), in Haiti (Cité Soleil, Bas Gormand) and in the region of Matagalpa, Leon and Bluefields in Nicaragua (El Hatillo, Chaguitillo, Nagarote, Rama Cay).
Global Potential is 100% volunteer-run by youth and young multi-disciplinary professionals who come together to find innovative solutions to the harsh problems of our society such as racism, poverty, discrimination and indecent work conditions. With dignity and responsibility, thanks to GP, American youth from the Americas exchange their ideas that are symbolized today in the conferences taking place at the cusp of the culmination of this International Year of Youth recognized by the UN in 2010-2011. As of today, let us decide together to seriously change for the better our world to develop its Global Potential.
For more information, please contact Sarah Gogel, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Global Potential, sarah@global-potential.org, also to find out more information on assisting these youth open space conferences that will go on until August 14, 2011 in Blocks de Mena, Barahona, Dominican Republic and El Hatillo, Matagalpa in Nicaragua. www.global-potential.org
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August 1, 2011: GP Values!
180 GP Values, Click here for bigger format
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July 31, 2011
Dear Global Potential friend,
It has been quite an amazing month of July in the Global Potential World and Family.
We wanted to share seven joys with you to add some more sunshine to your summer!
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1. INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGES
July 5-August 18, 2011: GP is carrying out for the 6th time since 2007 its famous month and a half cultural immersion program in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua. This summer, there are 56 youth and young adults from New York and Boston who are experiencing daily growth and discovery. They do this through working in mutual participation with our partner friends and families that generously host us to develop communities and enrich education and culture.
They are having an amazing experience of self-discovery and transformation on multiple levels!! They each raised $300 to participate in this experience, and GP subsidized $1200 to make these experiences happen!
Any donation of small or large amount for this 100% volunteer organization will go a long way!
Yesterday, July 30, 2011, GP youth and staff were in Bas Gormand in Haiti carrying out our annual HaitiRise JUMP Youth conference, after spending two days of preparation and community work in Cité Soleil near Port au Prince. In Nicaragua, GP youth and staff met up yesterday with 25 Northeastern University undergraduate students to exchange and share their experiences on development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. On August 12, in the Dominican Republic and in Nicaragua, we will carry out two huge youth conferences in celebration of International Youth Day.
Any donation of small or large amount for this 100% volunteer organization will go a long way!
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On July 3, 2011, 35 family members, friends, teachers, staff and youth travelled on the Fung Wah from Boston to New York to attend the annual Global Potential 2011 graduation celebration! We basically took up the whole Fung Wah bus!
This was a momentous day as GP celebrated 31 youth of Global Potential who graduated from our intensive year and a half program: 11 youth from Boston, 18 youth from New York, 1 youth from Baltimore, and 1 youth from the Dominican Republic. They joined our family of nearly 300 youth graduates from our urban communities who have participated in GP since 2007.
Any donation of small or large amount for this 100% volunteer organization will go a long way!
GP YOUTH GRADUATES 2011
1. Aicha Diakite (New York): Originally from the Ivory Coast, Aicha’s dream is to become a doctor and help save lives as well as help children realize their dreams and potentials.
2. Ajyanna Sadora Jones (Boston): AJ, an upcoming junior at the John O’Bryant, wishes to attain success in life to give back to the local and global community. Her zest and love for life inspires her to selflessly use her abilities to help others. She travelled to the Dominican Republic during the summer of 2010 with GP and co-facilitated workshops with GP during its third phase in Boston. She will work at the aquarium of Boston during the summer of 2011.
3. Alex A. Campos (New York): Alex is a high school student studying graphic communication. His love for cars has influenced his dream to work in the automotive field and design his own car one day.
4. Angel Perez (Baltimore): Originally from Mexico, Angel lives in Baltimore and is currently studying business at Mountain State University.
5. Ayan Abdi Hassan (Boston): Ayan immigrated to the U.S. in 1996 from Somalia. Ayan is a successful student and leader and wishes to continue to be a changemaker to better her community, whether through law or otherwise. She will attend Northeastern University in the fall of 2011. She has been recognized by BSAC in Boston for her activism as President of the Student Advisory Council to implement teacher evaluations in all Boston Public Schools.
6. Camille Lyann Velazquez (New York): Camille, who attended the Academy of Urban Planning, participated in the GP program to experience new things and broader her horizons. She wants to harness this experience to inspire others and teach the importance of helping a community.
7. Christelle Abraham (Boston): Christelle, 19 years old, born in Haiti, wishes to be a top cultural anthropologist involved in health and societies. She will be a sophomore student at St. John’s University in New York in the fall of 2011. She co-founded Les Manos United social venture with GP to create increased global awareness and an amazing documentary with GP on the situation of discrimination in the Bateys of the Dominican Republic.
8. Daniel Alfaro (Boston): Daniel, 19 years old, graduate of O’Bryant, is originally from El Salvador and has keen interests in sports and the field of politics — in which he aspires to work in the future through journalism or human services. A social entrepreneur, he founded Real Talk, a youth forum sponsored by Ashoka’s Youth Venture, while in GP. He will travel to Nicaragua summer 2011 with GP and be a sophomore at Roxbury Community College.
9. Daniel Alejandro Martinez Garcia (Boston): Daniel, a junior in the fall of 2011 at the John D. O’Bryant, immigrated with his family at the age of 13 from Colombia. Daniel will use his education as a tool for progress and sees himself in computer sciences or civil engineering. He went to Nicaragua with GP during the summer of 2010 and will be going to the Dominican Republic with GP summer 2011. He is a social entrepreneur and successful filmmaker with GP.
10. Djiby Ousmane (New York): Originally from Mauritania, Djiby is fluent in three languages, which include English, French and Fulani. His favorite sport is soccer and he wishes to use his skills to help his family and community.
11.Estefani Campos (New York): A student at the HS for Leadership and Community Service, Estefani exemplifies her school’s name. She does a lot of volunteer work in her community and loves to help people as well as travel, which were motivating factors in participating at GP.
12. Evita A. Benavides (New York): A student at the Academy of Urban Planning, Evita participated in GP to help make a positive change in another community. She wants to utilize her outspoken and creative nature to make a difference.
13. Fatoumata Diaraye Bah (New York): Fatoumata is a student at the International High School at Prospect Heights. Originally from Guinea, Fataoumata participated in GP to lend a helping hand in another community and experience a different culture.
14. Julissa Taveras (New York): A student at the Academy of Urban Planning, Julissa participated in GP to meet new people as well as learn about new ideas. She was also affected by the positive change in the students who travelled the year before. She plans on attending college and to be involved in issues pertaining to her community in the future.
15. Kwasi Jelani Atiba (New York): An AUP student, Kwasi has a keen interest in music and is a talented musician. He started playing the guitar at the age of 11 and has built up his skills since. Kwasi keeps an open mind in life to search for success, happiness and friendship in the future.
16. Lesly Vinicio Manzanarez Bronfield (New York): Originally from Honduras, Lesley participated in GP to improve his leadership skills and to help out another community. He wants to use what he learned to be involved in his own community in Brooklyn in the future.
17. Luishka Adeyemi Roberts (New York): A student at the Academy of Urban Planning, Luishka participated in GP to explore new countries, cultures and communities. She wants to take her experience at GP to build new relationships with her peers and community members.
18. Mackendy Blanc (New York): Originally from Haiti, Mackendy is a student at the International HS at Prospect Heights. A sports enthusiast, Mackendy wanted to participate in GP to travel as well as meet new people. He believes that progress is not possible unless people help each other and he plans on doing just that in his community and else where.
19. Maria Margarita Mosquera Munoz (New York): Maria lives in Brooklyn with her family and excels in the field of science. She wants to take her passion for the subject to become a vet in the future.
20. Marianny Martinez (Boston): Marianny will be a junior at the Edward M. Kennedy and is originally from the Dominican Republic, is a leader in her school and with GP. She went to the Dominican Republic with GP during summer 2010 and will be going to Nicaragua with GP during the summer of 2011 as a youth intern. She co-founded the social venture Les Manos United with her GP peers in the third phase to create global awareness.
21. Mohamed Balde (New York): Originally from West Africa, Mohamed participated in the GP ‘Los Blocks’ program last summer and was especially engaged in the ‘Los Blocks’ documentary project. He quickly transpired to be one of the leaders in the group, especially in planning the community’s fundraiser in support of the community center.
22. Natalia Medina (Boston): Originally from Colombia, Natalia graduated the Edward M. Kennedy Academy in June 2011. She participated in GP because of her passion for community service work. She is passionate about the health and medicinal field and wants to pursue medical school in the future to become an OB/GYN. She went with GP to Nicaragua during the summer of 2010 and won a POSSE Scholarship for Denison University for fall 2011.
23. Nayum Mohd Parvez (New York): Nayum recently graduated from high school and is planning on attending college in the fall. A member of GP, he travelled to Nicaragua last summer and plans on doing more travelling in the future.
24. Pascal Wave M. Saint Fleur (New York): Originally from Haiti, Pascal was a student at the International High School at Prospect Heights and participated in the GP program to learn about another culture and do community work.
25. Rafael Alejandro Soto Baria (Boston): Rafael just graduated from the Edward Mr. Kennedy HS and will be attending Salem State University in the fall of 2011. He is originally from the Dominican Republic and is a proud Dominican. Through GP, Rafael wanted to be involved as an active member of the community. He travelled to the Dominican Republic during the summer of 2010.
26. Samy Beneco Enecia Perez (Dominican Republic): Originally from Dominican Republic, Samy became the first participant from Dominican Republic to travel to Nicaragua in the GP program. Currently, Samy is working to pursue a career as a doctor.
27. Shanice Octavia Beckles (Boston): Shanice, 17 years old, is originally from Trinidad and lives in the Roxbury. At the John D. O’Bryant high school, she managed a girls’ basketball team. She wishes to be a changemaking powerful nurse some day. She travelled to the Dominican Republic during the summer of 2010 with GP and has since been a very active and generous GP participant during the whole of GP third phase. She is so strong and amazing.
28. Stanley Lahens (New York): Stanley, originally from Haiti, is a student at the International HS at Prospect Heights and a participant of the GP program.
29.Tatevick DeLa Rosa (Boston): Tatevick, or Tati, 16 years old, s half Mexican and half Armenian and speaks bilingual English and Russia. She moved to Boston from Kentucky in 2000 and wants to work for NASA one day and travel the world. She also wishes to be a pilot and has started taking lessons. She is extremely curious and carried out successfully GP’s internship in the third phase of the program through her art skills and generous character.
30. Taylese Shalaiah Parker (Boston): Taylese, 16 years old, a bubbly and inquisitive bright young woman, just passed her permit and will be a junior next year at the John D. O’Bryant. She joined GP to help others and undertake a new experience. She travelled with GP during the summer of 2010 to the Dominican Republic and will be travelling again with GP during the summer of 2011 as a youth intern. She has a great sense of humor and is very strong.
31. Xinnong Liu (New York): Xinnong, who goes by Cara, is originally from China and participated in GP to explore the cultures of South America and broader her horizons. She wanted to learn new skills that would enable her to help her own community and school in the future.
Here is a small video of the GP Boston graduates and youth facilitators of 2010-2011
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Thank you to our volunteer Jodi Kaur who lent us her family’s Shortstop Diner in the Bronx in New York to make this celebration an amazing event! Jodi represents the core of what all GP volunteers have: passion and infinite generosity in sharing their resources to make GP as successful as it is today!
GP has been blessed to have over 100 volunteers like Jodi since our inception in 2007, to help build up GP to where it is today! Indeed, GP has succeeded today in being 100% volunteer-run and impacting the lives of over 1200 youth in our urban and rural communities in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Haiti! In fact, 30% of our volunteers are graduate students of Global Potential!
*Thank you to our amazing 2010-2011 staff, interns, leaders and volunteers:
WITHOUT YOU, GP WOULD NOT EXIST*
Alessia Mondlane, Amy Weber, Anamika Parida, Anne Gifford, Ashleigh Cooper, Ays Necioglu, Bret Carr, Brittany Lynk,Carol Saito, Chloé Ledoux, Christelle Domercant, Christian Ruiz, Christine McCaleb, Christine McReynolds, Cindy Sakala Cristina Ovalles, Dana Kuefner, Daniel Martinez, Daniel Snyder-Boisserie, Dariana Castro, Deryn Boyce, Elise Jernigan, Elizabeth Craig, Elona Zakharova, Erica Shusas, Esther Cho, Fien Weeda, Hannah Plimack, Ilsa Bruer, Jean Ulysse, Jeannie Ferrari, Janine Flores, Jeff Balinksi, Jennifer Bess, Jessica Bolen, Jessica Salazar, Jordan Capik, Julieta Mendez, Karina Ovalles, Kenneth Simone, Kim Lee Alvarado, Kim Leone, KK Shapiro, Jodi Kaur, Latonya Dawson, Lauren Bilich, Lisa Kletjian, Lissan Hardware, Luisana Taveras, Marie Tudiesche, Margot Clavier, Marianny Martinez, Natasha Rawdon-Jones, Nick Forth, Olivier Cahané, Papa Diop, Parker Shea, Rae Kuo, Renoly Santiago, Romano Collard, Samy Beneco, Sarah Lamm, Sandra Gonzalez, Shanita Williamson, Shridevi Mischra, Simona Stoeva, Taina Vargas, Taylese Parker
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All of our GP youth are rockstars, however eight in particular exemplify GP’s mission of sustainability and youth empowerment. Marianny, Taylese, Cris, Samy, Jean, Daniel, Nayum and MacKendy are GP graduates between 16 and 21 years old who are now core members of our staff, helping GP lead the next generation of youth local and global youth changemakers.
They are back this summer as youth interns with our staff in the villages in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua helping transition and empower our current youth participants to adapt to the different rural environments.
What better indicator of success than having GP graduate students return year after year with our program to stay involved and pass on their knowledge to their peers! Imagine how many more GP youth students would come back to GP if we could employ them for summer jobs with us and throughout the year?
Any donation of small or large amount for this 100% volunteer organization will go a long way!
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6. NECESSARY SKILLS FOR 21st CENTURY
GP youth graduates have skills that enable them to navigate the world of today’s competitive 21st century workplace and college: self-confidence, teamwork, decision-making, responsibility, communication skills and global awareness. GP helps youth to gain these skills to prepare them for today’s globalized world, a huge issue identified by National Geographic and others.
Any donation of small or large amount for this 100% volunteer organization will go a long way!
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Through our meaningful program utilizing media, social entrepreneurship, service-learning, international cultural exchange and leadership, GP has found a scalable and solid model of transformation that is receiving a lot of attention, such as from the Ariane de Rothschild Foundation, Starbucks, Western Union and the Miguel Batista Foundation. In order to bring GP to the next level to provide quality education and international development services to the world, we need your help to spread the word for increased support so that we can employ our first staff!
There are many amazing candidates, first and foremost our GP youth graduates! Help us make 2011 the year when GP will be able to employ its first staff, so we can continue to expand and spread our powerful and highly needed work of youth development and international development!
Please follow along all of this amazing work on our blog that our youth and staff update every weekend when they reconnect with technology! www.global-potential.org/blog
We look forward to writing to you again right after the youth conferences that Global Potential will carry out in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, for International Youth Day on August 12! Thank you so much for your continued support.
In solidarity and belief in all youth’s potential,
Frank, Sarah, Peter, Adela
Thank you so much for your continued support.
Global Potential works in MUTUALITY with high potential urban youth from low-income communities in New York (Brooklyn, Bronx, Lower East Side, Washington Heights) and Boston (Roxbury, Fenway, JP, Dorchester, Mattapan).
GP’s transformative program works in SOLIDARITY with these youth on a life-changing journey over a year and a half to become local and global leaders and community changemakers. Throughout their journeys, GP youth spend 1.5 months living with families in rural villages in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Haiti doing community service work and OPEN SPACE YOUTH LED conferences.
GP youth have more confidence and knowledge, do better in school, become leaders in their own communities, and create change locally and internationally.
They do this through ONGOING LEARNING and SHARED LIVING EXPERIENCES while carrying out high impact projects in social entrepreneurship, documentary making, activism, internships and community service!
Our vision is that worldwide: as youth develop, communities develop!! Challenges become opportunities, and those who might typically receive help, learn how to help others, and therefore themselves.**
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Presidential Globe Scholarship
June 7, 2011, Sarah Lamm, Youth Facilitator and Organizer doing her internship with Global Potential for 6 months as part of her co-op experience, received today the Presidential Global Scholarship. The Presidential Global Scholarship, made possible in part by the generosity of Northeastern alumni and friends, supports outstanding students seeking international experiential opportunities. Sarah received this award in recognition of her academic achievements and exceptional leadership abilities and reflects Northeastern’s expectation of continued excellence during her international experience with Global Potential this summer in Nicaragua.
May 15, 2011: Sarah Gogel, Co-Founder of Global Potential, wins the prestigious Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship for Muslim and Jewish Social Entrepreneurs. To find out more, please go to their website here
April 15, 2011: Frank Cohn recognized for his work with Global Potential as New Yorker of the week on NY1!
Click here to watch Frank Cohn, NYer Of The Week!
Summary of Youth Conference April 2011
Translated from Spanish to English. Report written by Dominican Republic staff Samy Beneco
Mini- Youth open Conference (Bas-gomand Haiti)
Tuesday April 5th, 2011
This trip was a great experience for each of the youth of the Bateyes that came to Haiti for the conference.
We arrived at 4:00 pm on Tuesday April 5 in the community of BARGORMAND in Haiti.
Upon our arrival to the community we met with the young community leader and conference coordinator Rosenalie.
We rested for a while and Rosenaline took us to the place where each of us was staying. Then, we walked around the community and talked with people in the community and did some recreational games/activities with some of children from the community. We also went around inviting people to come to the conference on Wednesday. We visited the church and the school where the open space youth conference was held last summer.
As we walk around the community we met a young man named Francisco Chal. He told us about how much he would want his community to be developed. He said he wants a public school, a hospital for primary care and the roads to be fixed.
Then I met with the boys from the group to discuss the schedule and rules of the conference and how long each subject discussion will last.
Afterwards we had a delicious dinner prepared by Rosenalie and then we headed to bed to get up early for the conference.
“The Conference”, the main purpose of this Trip
Wednesday April 6th, 2011
The conference began at 9:30 am because school was in session.
The conference themes were:
The main topics that young people wanted to address were Cholera, AIDS, hospitals, and school, culture, teen pregnancy, and agriculture.
Cholera
The youth of the community said that there have only been two cases of cholera. They are prepared and focused on how to prevent cholera in the community. They said that thanks to the guidance and care of each of the inhabitants of this community, they have said “No to cholera!” They also commented that the two deaths from cholera made a huge impact, but that everything is under control and they do not even hear anyone mention anything about it in the area. The Youth group from the Dominican Republic brought some brochures about cholera with indications of how to deal with cholera and its risks. They give out the brochure to the people of the community that are able to read and understand, and follow the instructions in the brochure.
AIDS
They said that if they heard that a person in the community is infected with HIV or AIDS, they isolate this person from the society and they don’t spend time with him/ her. However, the youth group from Dominican Republic oriented them saying that isolating a person that is infected with this disease from society can make more harm. It makes them feel more depressed and can lead them to suicide. Isolating a person means that you are destroying him without having to punch him.
Hospital
They said that a hospital or health center is one of the central problems of the community. The community does not have a primary care center and a cause of this many people that have gotten sick in the community have died. It is really difficult to transport a sick patient from Bargormand quickly to the hospital to give him the first aid in order to save his life.
School
The problem of education in the community is the public schooling.
They said that there is not public school in the community. There are some children in the community that have the desire to study and have little resources to pay for a school; therefore they cannot attend classes in order to succeed in the future.
They said that the governments only go and make promises when they are in political campaigns, but when in power they forget that these people exist.
Culture
There are several types of religions, such as Catholic, Protestant, and Voodoo. Some of the young people from Haiti said that for them the gaga music is like celebrating the death of Jesus Christ.
While the youth group from the Dominican Republic said that they play the gaga music just for fun. They enjoy to dance and playing the sticks and the drums and listening to the sounds of bamboo.
On culture Emmanuel Batiste from Batey 7 spoke of how Haiti being the richest colony in America becomes one of the poorest in the continent.
The GPS
After the conference finished, Rouno came to talk and teach us about what was a GPS and what it is use for. He told us that GPS is a device used to mark and locate points.
Unfortunately the battery and the amount of GPS were minimal and it left us with a great interest of knowing more about it.
Let me tell you that in general it was a tremendous experience for each of us young people from the bateyes who fight for our future and the development of our communities.
The boys are at your disposition to help with the development of the GP program in each of their communities and surrounding communities. Thank you for entrusting each one of us. This was one more overcome barrier for us and we will continue overcoming more barriers in order to attain the development of our communities.
God bless the entire team of Global Potential and its contributors.
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The Improve Group has consulted with Global Potential through its pro-bono services, to produce a beautiful report on our work that you can download HERE
Brooklyn Community Foundation (BCF) awards $10k to Global Potential
Brooklyn Community Foundation (BCF) awards $10k to Global Potential (GP), Globalhood’s flagship program, to provide new and exciting opportunities with GP for 50 youth from the International High School of Prospect Heights and the Bushwick Academy of Urban Planning in Brooklyn, NY, between December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2011.
Thank you BCF for seeing the impact that our program has on positively transforming the lives of hundreds of at-risk youth! This new partnership between GP and BCF is an honor and we will be sure to keep you all abreast of the amazing impact of our youth in the communities locally and internationally. Happy holidays!
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Natalia, GP Boston youth leader who went to Nicaragua during the summer of 2010 and is now in the third and last phase of GP before she graduates from the program, received the renowned Posse Foundation scholarship for a full-ride tuition-free College career at Denison University in Ohio where she will start in the fall of 2011.
Livenski, who graduated from GP in June 2010, from the GP New York youth leader 2009 cohort, and who travelled to the Dominican Republic for his GP experience, also received this prestigious scholarship, and will be going to Franklin and Marshall College in the fall of 2011.
Congratulations to Natalia and Livenski! They both wrote about their GP experiences in their College and Posse applications.
Click here to see these youth celebrate!
The Posse Foundation has three goals:
To expand the pool from which top colleges and universities can recruit outstanding young leaders from diverse backgrounds.
To help these institutions build more interactive campus environments so that they can be more welcoming for people from all backgrounds.
To ensure that Posse Scholars persist in their academic studies and graduate, so they can take on leadership positions in the workforce.
To read more about the Posse Foundation, please click here
December 17, 2010: Sarah Gogel, Deputy Director, Co-Founder, wins prestigious PresenTense Fellowship for Innovators in Boston. Click here to read more about the other fellows
PresenTense, a not-for-profit founded in 2006, has a Social Entrepreneur Fellowship educates and equips innovators who are developing new opportunities. These entrepreneurs benefit from ideas, tools, and connections they need to enable their ventures to succeed – enabling them to take their ideas, build them into pioneering expeditions, and launch them into a supportive community committed to their success.
The Community Entrepreneur Partnership (CEP) unleashes the energy of local 22-40 year olds through an eight month long program built to strengthen the connection that engages local innovators and professionals in cooperative ventures.
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$3000 AWARD WON BY THREE GP BOSTON YOUTH SOCIAL VENTURE GROUPS – FROM ASHOKA YOUTH VENTURE
December 11, 2010: This morning, after a motivational speech given by Councilor At-Large of Boston, Felix Arroyo, three GP youth student groups presented their social ventures in front of a panel of judges, competing with many other youth organizations around Boston. Our three GP Boston youth social venture groups won a total of $3000, $1000 per group to develop their projects for this year!!! Congratulations! Please CLICK here to download and read all about GIRLS 2 WOMEN SOCIAL VENTURE GROUP (Shanice, Taylese). CLICK here to download and read about REAL TALK social venture group (Ayan, Daniel A., Tate) and CLICK here to download and read about LOS MANOS UNITED (LMU) Social Venture Group (Daniel M, Christelle, Marianny and Natalia).
Finally, even if it’s low quality images, you can follow along on YouTube what our social venturer GP leaders directly talked about on YouTube and hear Felix Arroyo’s motivational speech!
Congratulations all!!
Les Manos United Group Presentation
1) PART ONE
2) PART TWO
3) PART THREE
4) QUESTION AND ANSWER PART ONE
5) QUESTION AND ANSWER PART TWO
6) QUESTION AND ANSWER PART THREE
7) QUESTION AND ANSWER PART FOUR
Girls 2 Women Presentation
1) PART ONE
2) PART TWO
3) PART ONE QUESTION AND ANSWER
4) PART TWO QUESTION AND ANSWER
Felix Arroyo
1) PART ONE
2) PART TWO
3) PART THREE
United Way Director Speech
1) CLICK HERE
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December 2, 2010: Frank Cohn, Executive Director of Global Potential, receives the 4th Annual Emerging Social Work Leader Award of the National Association of Social Workers – New York City Chapter. This award is presented to a select number of emerging leaders of the social work profession in recognition of their visionary and exemplary work. Today, Frank was recognized along with other emerging social work leaders in New York, for his dedication to the social work profession and his unique commitment at an awards dinner hosted by the Chapter at The Grand Harmony Restaurant located at 98 Mott Street, New York City. Congratulations on your extraordinary accomplishments Frank!
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SOCIAL VENTURES UNDER WAY IN BOSTON
Click here to download the powerpoint of Les Manos United Social Venture group in Boston, by Christelle, Natalia, Marianny and Daniel M.
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INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK
November 10, 2010
The Department of State joins the Department of Education to celebrate the 11th annual International Education Week. What Clinton says is even more relevant for the work done by Global Potential. Listen to her speech HERE or read it here:
“I’ve always believed that diplomacy does not just happen between government officials. It also happens between individuals through people to people connections. And student exchanges are some of the most important people to people connections we can have. For hundreds of thousands of students each year, exchanges promote mutual understanding and bring people of different nations together to share ideas and compare values. They also nurture leadership skills that prepare students for the challenges of the 21st century.
The Department of State remains committed to these exchanges and we strongly support expanding study abroad opportunities to a diverse range of communities so that talented students around the world can tap into the power and possibility of international exchanges.
I encourage schools, non-profits, community organizations, and businesses around the world to promote these educational exchanges, and to help us raise awareness during International Education Week.”
In U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s speech for International Volunteer Week, we can read HERE the following:
“President Obama has stated, “All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort — a sustained effort — to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.”
We are reminded that the challenges we face today are increasingly borderless. Climate change, the environment, and the economy are but some of the issues that affect our daily lives and demand our attention on a global scale. Finding sustainable solutions is imperative and will require an unprecedented level of international cooperation.
A complete education in the 21st century must teach our children about their interdependent world, and it must prepare them to be good leaders and good global citizens. International awareness and knowledge can help our children build the skills needed to communicate and cooperate with those from other nations and other cultures. And as they participate in international education and international exchange, our students can gain the knowledge and experiences to help them contribute to a sustainable future for all.”
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September 30, 2010
Starbucks Youth Action Grant awarded to GP
Global Potential is among 21 youth-led projects to receive a 2010 grant award through the Starbucks Youth Action Grants program. GP was chosen through a competition established in 2008 by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and Starbucks in order to make grants available to young leaders who have participated in YouthActionNet® fellowship programs, like Sarah Gogel, Deputy Director and Co-Founder of GP, in 2009. YouthActionNet® seeks to develop a new generation of socially conscious global citizens who create positive change in their communities, their countries, and the world. To learn more about the Starbucks Youth Action Grants program, visit: www.starbucksfoundation.com/sef.
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September 15, 2010
Click here to listen to Vinicio’s powerful life story with gangs and how he broke away from that life through his transformative experience with GP this summer 2010 in Nicaragua
Below is the mural that Vinicio created in Nicaragua. The Story is produced at North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC and is hosted by Dick Gordon. They are co-produced and distributed by American Public Media.
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Update after a successful summer 2010!
September 7, 2010
This summer, 52 Global Potential staff and students traveled on life-changing journeys for 45 days to villages in the Dominican Republic (DR), Haiti, and Nicaragua, as part of their 1.5 year long leadership training program with us. Our 31 youth and 5 junior staff members, all from inner-city neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Boston, Baltimore, and Batey 8, learned about the history, politics, environment, activism, and culture of entirely new places and people, while at the same time tapping into their own diverse backgrounds (Bangladesh, Belize, Guinea, Mauritania, DR, Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Senegal, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Trinidad, El Salvador) as a source of strength.
This experience would not have been possible without our stellar group of volunteer staff of Social Workers, Teachers, and Community Development and Youth workers. We also ran a summer program in New York City for 15 youth, featuring Hollywood actor Renoly Santiago, which built up their confidence and explored their artistic talents.
Our youth were able to put the challenges that they face in their own lives and neighborhoods into perspective, and gain insight and confidence in learning about how to overcome these challenges and turn them into opportunities. Through advisory sessions with their staff, community forums, team reflection meetings, and personal blogging, the youth had unprecedented opportunities to reflect on their experience and their own process. Rather than spend their summers feeling bored and frustrated or getting involved in risky activities like drugs, gangs, or violence in their neighborhoods back home as many of their peers may have been doing, GP youth worked on: running energetic Daycamps for hundreds of local children, teaching English classes, building Latrines, painting Murals, doing workshops on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, building community drainage and sanitation systems, spearheading community clean-ups, building homes and a revamping a church, and providing literacy classes.
Each youth also completed an educational internship with a local village leader, helping them with their work while acquiring valuable skills. With support from the Tribeca Film Institute, our youth took the footage for 6 documentary films, which they are currently editing and will be using a tools for social advocacy. For the first time this summer, we had a former GP youth participant return as staff, and he did a phenomenal job! We also for the first time brought a youth participant who has worked closely with us over the last 3 years, from one of our host villages in DR, to Nicaragua as a GP program participant, where he also excelled. Congratulations and thank you, Christian Ruiz and Samy Beneco Enecia!!!
We are also appreciative to have benefited from the hard work of a volunteer graduate student who carried out ongoing evaluation of our impact in one of the villages with which we have a long-standing relationship. She also taught English classes and organized local youth to participate in our conferences and regional activities. We also had the opportunity this summer to explore new potential project sites in Haiti, Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast, and in other nearby villages in the DR, and we had productive meetings with Mayors, government Ministers, and local and international NGO leaders.
The youth had the opportunity to explore together with local youth and community leaders the areas around where they lived, visiting historic cities and museums, beaches, rivers, lakes, mountains, bustling capital cities, and other isolated rural villages. Additionally, 18 GP participants joined 18 youth leaders from our partner villages in the DR, to spend 5 days in a local village in Haiti and exploring Port-au-Prince, while participating in a groundbreaking Open Space youth conference, along with 15 youth leaders from all over Haiti and another 15 from the local villages. Our GP and host village youth in Nicaragua joined 25 university students from Northeastern University (Boston) in a fascinating 2 day Open Space youth conference in Granada. And our youth in DR joined over 60 youth leaders from all over the DR and Haiti for a 3 day conference, to discuss and share views on topics ranging from Racism and Youth Violence, to Haiti’s Reconstruction, to Adolescent Pregnancy. Thank you to the JUMP Foundation and Northeastern University for supporting our Conferences!
To date, 120 youth have participated in GP since 2008, and 76 youth have traveled abroad with our program. Four GP youth are traveling to Costa Rica and Guatemala this year through our partnership with Cross Cultural Solutions. Other GP youth continue to get scholarships, succeed in school, surprise their teachers and families with their new confidence and awareness, and stay involved in our program. Thanks to support from City Council in the Bronx and the Starbucks Foundation in Boston, and a contract with Comprehensive Development, Inc., we will be expanding our impact this coming year to serve even more youth, working with four schools in New York and two in Boston. For the first time this year, we held a fundraiser in Paris, France, and garnered an excited audience of supporters there.
Way to go GP! We did it again, thanks to our amazing youth participants, families, staff, communities, and partners, as well as the philosophy that lies behind our work: Challenges Become Opportunities, and those who typically receive help learn how to help others, and therefore themselves. We are excited to have 6 new staff starting in our office and working with our youth at our schools, and to work on making our program better, and ensuring that more youth have access to these kinds of transformative opportunities.
Please follow along on our Blog, our Twitter, and like our Facebook fan page. Also, please consider making a donation to support our work (or by mail)—it is in huge part thanks to the passion and support of our donors that our youth are able to have, and provide, this experience.
Thank you on behalf of the entire GP team.
Frank Cohn
Executive Director
Sarah Gogel
Deputy Director
Peter Maugeri
Director of Operations
Jessica Salazar
Nicaragua Coordinator
- CLICK ON IMAGE BELOW TO DOWNLOAD AND READ NEWSLETTER *(pp.4-5) of our donor and partner JUMP! Foundation, who generously funded our HaitiRise Conference this summer!
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July 21, 2010
GP holds its first fundraiser internationally – Paris, France
GP Deputy Director, Sarah Gogel organized this summer in Paris, France, GP’s first internationtal fundraiser to gather interest from all over the world for GP’s model, uniqueness and scalability. Indeed, many people came to the event and were interested in starting a chapter of GP in France. They also came to savour the colorful art of Danièle Boisserie Snyder, the theatrical performance of Elizabeth Craig and Louisa Bey, and the latino and caribbean sounds mixed by DJ Godjothai. RespectMag, SOS Racisme and other partners came to support this first event of its kind, with the vision to open GP France in 2012. Stay tuned! Read an article about GP France and this fundraiser here
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July 1, 2010
Our next group of youth participants leave
today!
Screening of GP Youth Leader’s Documentary at Tribeca Film Institute
April 30, 2010
There will be a screening of SUGAR CANE HOPES at the Tribeca Film Institute’s Our City, My Story on April 30, 2010 at 12pm at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center in NYC. Click here for more information!
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April 27
GP features in Nuevo Diario, Nicaragua!April 27: GP features in Nuevo Diario, Nicaragua!
Global Potential featured in main newspaper in Nicaragua, El Nuevo Diario, 2 months before our arrival in Matagalpa, Nicaragua! Click here to read the article
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Global Potential’s Spring Wine Tasting
Tuesday, April 27th at 6pm
Event Details – Wine Tasting & Happy Hour 6-8:30pm – South African hors d’oeuvres 6-8:30 pm – Extended Happy Hour 8:30-10pm – Youth Documentary Film Screening – Silent Auction
$35 until 8:30pm
Reduced cover after 8:30pm
Bunny Chow
74 Orchard St
(between Grand St & Broome St)
Lower East Side
Nearest Subway
Delancey-Essex Sts (F, J, M, Z)
Grand St (B, D)
RSVP to RSVP@global-potential.org
The volunteers of Global Potential invite you to join us for an evening of quality wine, music, and conversation. We’d love to share with you some of what we’re working on in 2010:
- Expanding our service program to Nicaragua, Haiti, and new villages in the DR; – Documentary films produced by our youth participants while living in the DR
(recognized by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and Tribeca Film Institute); – Continuing to quantify the positive impact Global Potential has had on its participants’ high school graduation rates and community involvement over time.
We are so happy and excited to be fundraising for our 40 2010 youth participants who will be traveling this summer for a transformative life experience!
Please join us to toast our successes, and to gather support for the year ahead. Meet some of our youth participants and hear about their experience.
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April 24, 2010
Article in Spanish written by Nicaraguan Journalist Lidia Hunter, in New York, who gave a workshop on April 24th on Nicaragua to 18 Global Potential Youth in New York. Lidia Hunter is the Publicist of the Nicaraguan Foundation for Humanitarian action Pro-Nicaragua in New York, and has partnered with Global Potential since May 2009. Read the article!
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April 23, 2010
Global Kick-Off Day @ Vlora Restaurant for fist fundraiser in Boston
Deputy Director and co-Founder Sarah Gogel interviewed on El Show de Fernandito. Click here to listen to the interview, led by GP youth Shanice!
Global Youth Service Day (GYSD)
April 23-25, 2010
Global Youth Service Day
is today!
The Global Youth Service Day is a time in the year to come together to focus the world’s attention on what young people are contributing every single day.
During Global Youth Service Day, millions of youth around the world organize community service projects to address the needs of their local communities through service, to be recognized for their contributions, and to be a part of a global youth service movement.
Click here for more information.
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The Selection Committee of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (HRWIFF), selected our very own GP leader Alicia’s film she created in the Dominican Republic with GP last summer, entitled 17 & Unidentified, for YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE (YPC) at the 21st Human Rights Watch Int’l Film Festival. Click here to watch the documentary
The film was selected from a pool of over 250 submissions made by youth from across the globe. The power of this film is a great achievement!
The 21st HRWIFF will take place June 11-24, 2010 at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater in NYC. The YPC program will be screened up to two times during these dates. The exact dates of the screening will be provided at a later date, along with filmmakers’ attendance to the festival. In addition to the screening at the 21st
HRWIFF, Alicia’s film will be screened in the following venues:
HRWIFF, Boston: Fall 2010 (dates tba)
HRWIFF, London: March 2011 (dates tba)
HRWIFF, San Francisco: Spring 2011 (dates tba)
HRWIFF Traveling Film Festival (sites tba)
The YPC program will also be included in:
Adobe Youth Voices and Human Rights Watch websites
HRWIFF High School teacher’s lending library
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February 23, 2010
Peter Brock, a new visual artist, is helping Global Potential raise funds on February 23, 2010! Showing at a gallery in Williamsburg for 1 night only, Peter’s work “translates the paradoxes, contrasts and peculiar grace of contemporary life into a colorful and bold pictorial language”. Half of the sales of prints will go directly to support Global Potential. There will also be a great party, drink specials, live music all night, great conversations, and special guest appearances of GP youth. Invite all your friends. Enjoy!!! Click here to see the flyer! or click here for more information on artist
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February 11, 2010
Welcome to our 11 amazing high-potential youth participants in “GP Boston’s” newest project! Welcome to Ajyanna, Ayan, Christelle, Daniel, Daniel, Marianny, Natalia, Rafael, Shanice, Tate and Tiara!
The youth were selected from our two newest Boston high-school partners: the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers in the Fenway neighborhood and the John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science in Roxbury neighborhood! They will start their 4-month training on leadership, global awareness and social entrepreneurship before joining their New York-based peers in July 2010 in either the Dominican Republic or Nicaragua. Click here to see a picture of our proud Natalia who created a masterpiece for her Global Potential application, representing the good and the evil side of our world, with symbols of hope and action
Bienvenidos a tod@s!
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January 30, 2010
2010 is an exciting year for Global Potential, that opened up a chapter in Boston with 12 amazing youth who have been participating since January in our program and who will join NY youth at the end of June to travel together to the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua! Click here to hear Daniel speak about GP Boston group, which the youth called Legacy since they are the first GP group there!
January 26, 2010
Global Potential enters into a great partnership with Cross Cultural Solutions
As part of one initiative to engage the local community in international volunteering, Cross-Cultural Solutions has partnered with us to provide four scholarships to 4 of our GP Youth Ambassadors to participate on a CCS program in Costa Rica, Guatemala, or Peru.
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January 1, 2010
Click here to read our 2010 annual appeal!
Stay tuned with our latest news by signing up to our twitter account!
CLICK HERE
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Click here to read annual report of Globalhood in 2009
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December 18, 2009
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming the year commencing on 12 August 2010 as the International Year of Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding. The Year will coincide with the 25th anniversary of the first International Youth Year in 1985 on the theme Participation, Development and Peace. Click here for more information
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November 17, 2009
Both Alicia and Leandro, two Global Potential students, had their films selected as finalists for the PLURAL+ Video Festival !!
Click here to read Alicia’s acceptance letter and
Click here to read Leandro’s.
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October 4, 2009
GP selected as a one of three finalists for the NYC Venture Philanthropy Fund, to present on Oct 22nd at the VPF Finalists Pitch Night.
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October 11, 2009
GP joined Fundacion Humanitaria Pro-Nicaragua in their annual Parade to celebrate Hispanic Day on 5th Ave. in NYC, in preparation to expand GP in Nicaragua, 2010
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October 2, 2009
Dave LaShell of ESRI, and Donna Gallucci of Panasonic NY, arranged for a Panasonic Toughbook (complete with GIS Mapping Software) to be loaned to the GP team heading down from Washington Heights to Batey Los Blocs de Mena.
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October 2, 2009
GP has been invited by the Western Union Foundation to submit a full proposal for their next round of grants
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September 15, 2009
4 students at the Bushwick Academy of Urban Planning presented their summer experiences with Global Potential in front of students and faculty.
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August 16, 2009
Our 18 youth came back safe and sound today! Read more about this successful and life transforming experience on their blog: CLICK HERE
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June 30, 2009
Letter from the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office” “I would like to commend Global Potential’s innovative work in the borough of Brooklyn. Brooklyn is home to one of the most ethnically diverse populations in the world so it is only fitting that an organization such as Global Potential has used innovative strategies to provided culturally enriching global opportunities for Brooklyn’s ethnically diverse and disadvantaged youth…”
Click here to read more
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June 18, 2009
GP staff and Jean Turco, Program Officer at the U.S. Department of State, connected GP youth with youth who were selected by the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince to come to the United States under the auspices of the Department of State’s office of International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).
These youth visited GP during their project entitled “Youth Leadership and Conflict Resolution”. This successful conference of cultural exchange brought up issues of cultural sensitivity, gender based related topics, the impacts of youth leadership community development projects.
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June 10, 2009
GP receives a $500 mini-grant from the Independence Community Foundation.
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November, 2008
CUNY TV’s Magazine program about Hispanic communities in New York City interviews Global Potential at International School of Prospect Heights, where they interview the participants of the Global Potential Program.
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October 24, 2008
Global Potential has partnered with a new school in Brooklyn, which was selected among very competitive sites around New York: Academy of Urban Planning. GP will also continue its partnership with the International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn and is now accepting applications from schools for fall 2010.
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August 15, 2008
Our 10 youth came back today from an amazingly exciting summer in the Dominican Republic and have been truly positively transformed! They are now transforming their own community in Brooklyn until January 2009 with the help of a grant from Youth Venture. STAY TUNED!
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