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GP Boston carries out community service on April 15, 2013 while Boston is in chaos due to Marathon Bombings, youth leaders are cleaning the beach and preparing for summer arrivals of thousands of youth on Thompson Island 30 Global Potential Youth, Leaders, Alumni, Staff, Friends and Mentors spend the afternoon on Thompson Island thanks to GP Boston leader Megan DiBiase’s 3rd phase project that she organized: Beach and/or brush clean up/tour and learn about Thompson Island and its opportunities for Boston Youth. According to Megan DiBiase, Global Potential 3rd phase leader in Boston, Bishop Fenwick High School senior and service expedition organizer, “The trip to Thompson Island will be great exposure for the Boston kids to a beautiful island wilderness, right in their back yard, as well as to all the programs that Thompson Island Education Center makes available to them. It will also be a great opportunity to integrate urban and suburban youth to breakdown stereotypes on both sides.” Adds DiBiase, “Of course it will also be great to give back to Thompson Island by getting the grounds and beaches ready to serve all youth of Boston and enable the teens participating to achieve the community service hours required by their schools.” “We are thrilled to have a community of young people from urban and suburban schools come together on Thompson Island for a day of service-learning,” said Paul Lamoureux, Vice President of Programs at Thompson Island Outward Bound. “Outward Bound, Global Potential and Bishop Fenwick High School all have a strong tradition of service and the wilderness setting of Thompson Island provides the perfect backdrop for a day of youth bonding and for breaking down stereotypes.” Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center is a not-for-profit […]

Global Potential holds 2-month gallery show opening December 1st, 5 to 8pm. RSVP on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/137594336388135 http://www.gct.com/Community/Grand-Circle-Gallery/Current-Exhibitions.aspx Points of View: Visions of Travel and Community Opens November 28, 2012 Individual images can evoke cultural and social connotations that extend far beyond the borders of a page. In Points of View, young people from different communities around the world set out to explore self-identification and social inequality through photography and videography. Their pieces document more than 20 youth-led community projects, which deal with cultural identity and social change in Boston and overseas. High school students who contributed pieces to this provocative exhibit participate in two non-profit organizations that use visual arts as a medium to empower urban youth from low-income communities. Global Potential fosters leadership and social entrepreneurial skills in high-school students around the world. For Points of View, the organization’s students from Boston and New York traveled to rural villages in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic and collaborated on photo- and video-journalism pieces that compare their role in communities at home and abroad. Students from West End House, an independent Boys and Girls Club in Boston that works with immigrant and urban youth, took a more local look at identity with photographs that focus on diversity, self-perception, and community. The young artists represent nine schools, five neighborhoods, and ten countries. Visitor Information »