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Check back here soon for more upcoming events. Recent Events:
Mid-Year Trainings - a chance for club leaders to get more hands on training
Los Angeles & New York New York Training is generously being hosted by Bryan Cave at 1290 Ave of the Americas (6th Ave), New York, NY Los Angeles Training will be held at Chapman University.
San Francisco & Phoenix San Francisco Traning will be held at the SF City College Ocean Campus. Phoenix Training will be held at Arizona State University.
Party for the Presidency
Club Leader Trainings in Phoenix, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York
San Francisco Day 2 of Training- New York - November 3 & 4, 2007
Chicago - October 28, 2007 - Sunday only!
Phoenix - October 13 & 14, 2007 Global Action Conferences in San Francisco, Chicago and Phoenix Featuring training, speakers, roundtables, and networking opportunities for your students to meet like-minded young people who care about global issues. The ideal candidates for this opportunity are students who are:
Global Action Conference in San Francisco
Global Action Conference in Chicago, Illinois
Global Action Conference in Phoenix, Arizona
"Who is Mr. Brown?" Fundraiser for New Global Citizens
111 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 New Global Citizens' friend and supporter Buck Austin is hosting a birthday fundraiser featuring art and music from some of his favorite artists and musicians. It's only $5 to get in and that money (which goes directly to helping New Global Citizens) gets you a free copy of issue #27 of ALARM and entry in a raffle for some great prizes from the likes of Intersection for the Arts, ALARM Magazine, Farbric8, Goorin Hats, Romanowski and more! For more information contact us .
Love at First Bite: The Pizookies' Album Release Party $8 admission 7-8 pm open mic All proceeds to the American Cancer Society For more information on the Pizookies, check out their website: www.thepizookies.com
Stanford Summer Theater presents its smashing 2007 season, *Africa
Onstage: "Let us tell you a story,"*
IMPORTANT: As our 2006 season completely sold out, SST recommends purchasing tickets online at http://summertheater.stanford.edu. Non-reserved tickets MAY be available at the door the night of the performance, on a "pay what you like" basis (suggested donation: $20). For questions, e-mail SST's Producer Amanda Gelender at gelender at stanford.edu or call the box office at (650) 725-5838.
Fundraiser for New Global Citizens Tickets for the performance are $20 each: $5 from each ticket purchased through New Global Citizens will go to support our work. To reserve tickets mail a check to New Global Citizens attn. Caitlin Drewes 2601 Mission St., Suite 501, San Francisco, CA 94110. Please include the names of the people attending. For more information contact us.
Y Fest 2007 Click here for more details.
YPW: New Global Citizens was chosen as a lead agency for the National and Global Youth Service Day. New Global Citizens is partnering with Mount Diablo CARES After School Programs to make this day of leadership available to the community and youth of Contra Costa County.
FREE CONFERENCE: Service on a Global Level: Engagement in the U.S. and Beyond YPW: New Global Citizens and Mobilize.org are presenting this conference highlighting how high school students are an essential part of the solution to the world's biggest challenges. This conference is FREE and open to all students, grades 9-12 in the great LA area. Registration is closed. But contact us if you are interested in future New Global Citizens Events in the Los Angeles area. If you have registered and are planning on attending you will need to bring a filled out Parent Permission form. Download a conference location map here .
Registration begins at 9:30 am at Taper Hall on the University of Southern campus.
"Office Warming" Open House We are so excited about our new home and want to share it with you! Please be our guest in our brand-new San Francisco office located in the heart of the Mission District. We are just two blocks away from the 24th Street BART stop, in the US Bank Building on the corner of 22nd and Mission. Enter on 22nd, through the gate in back (look for signs directing you). Our office is on the 5th floor. For more explicit directions, click here.
Come and enjoy light fare and music.
YPW Club Leaders Training
Gulu Walk SF In the midst of a 20-year conflict in Uganda, over 1-million people have been displaced, on top of thousands of night commuters. This walk is organized to show solidarity with the children night commuters.
YPW goes to Ecuador YPW Program Officer, Ouida Chichester, is traveling to Ecuador to visit our partner organization Fundación de Discapacitados “Simón Palacios Intriago” (Foundation for People with Disabilities). During the ’05 ’06 school year two seniors at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek started their Huellas de Esperanza (Fingerprints of Hope) project to help build a rehabilitation center for the foundation. Ouida will be checking in on the progress of the project.
YPW New Club Leaders Training
International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Members of YPW will be joining thousands of people around the world on Sunday, May 21 for the 2006 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. On this day, thousands of communities around the world will come together in solidarity to light candles and remember those who have been affected by HIV/AIDS. Each year, Memorials take place in over 4,500 communities in more than 93 countries. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial has become the largest grassroots AIDS event in the world. For more information visit the memorial's website, and if you are interested in standing with YPW members in the East Bay or San Francisco please contact us.
Y Fest 2006 The Bay Area’s only festival celebrating how young activists, musicians, artists and volunteers are changing our communities and the world! For a recap and photos of the great day click here.
CONFERENCE: Global Youth Action High school students will come together to discuss ways to take action against global poverty. This conference is free and open to 9-12th graders.
TRAINING: Bangladesh/American Youth Project In partnership with Relief International, YPW staff will be training American high school students upon their return from a trip to Bangladesh. Many of these young people will create projects that support the work of people they met on their visit.
TRAINING: “Engaging the entire family in end-of-year giving”
YPW in Africa Follow the travel blog of YPW staff as they visit Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa to support the work of Youth Together Against AIDS.
NetAid Global Action Awards Two YPW participants, Annalise Blum and Katharine Kendrick, will be honored by NetAid for their work providing livestock to refugees in camps outside Darfur, Sudan. Contact NetAid directly for more details. |
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