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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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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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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!
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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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