Welcome to Global Potential Bienvenidos a Potencial Global Bienvenues à Potentiel Global

Youth across borders helping each other to turn challenges into opportunities

OUR MISSION
Provide urban youth from low-income communities with the skills and perspective that enable them to effect positive change in their lives, communities, and the global community, through engagement in leadership training, social entrepreneurship, international cultural exchange and service learning.

OUR CORE VALUES
=Solidarity=
=Mutuality=
=Ongoing Learning=
=Shared Living Experiences=
=Opening Spaces for Youth-led Community Change=

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Join us for GP’s upcoming fundraiser, a spring wine tasting, on April 27th at 6 pm!

We are also screening all five of the GP Youth Films on April 9th at the Paley Center for Media. We are inviting GH Board and GH Board candidates, GP youth and staff, our partners and supporters. We would love to see you there!

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

April 24

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!

GP Boston youth, Daniel, speaks of Boston "Legacy"!

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 below to hear Daniel speak about GP Boston group, which the youth called “Legacy” since they are the first GP group there!

GP Youth Headed to Nicaragua and the DR

Our next group of youth participants leave today!

Youth Changing the World!

Global Youth Service Day is today!

Global Youth Service Day (GYSD)
Date: April 23-25, 2010

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.

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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!

March 16, 2010

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. Congratulations Alicia! Click here to read more about this exciting news