Our Partners

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	Ashoka Youth Venture has provided multiple GP students with $1,000 scholarships to initiate local social enterprises.
	A GP Partner School since December 2008, the Bushwick Academy of Urban Planning uses an urban planning, theme-based curriculum that takes students out of the classroom and into their communities to develop skills that will move them toward higher education and careers.
	GP is a founding member of the Building Bridges Coalition, a consortium of leading organizations working collaboratively to promote the field of international volunteering. BBC aims to improve the quality of international volunteer service, scale up the number of international volunteers sent abroad annually, and maximize positive impacts of international service in communities throughout the world, and at home.
	CEDESO is one of our major partners in the Dominican Republic. They are a non-governmental organization that works to promote sustainable community development projects. Their collaboration has been essential to many of the projects our youth do in the field.
	The Center for Social Development at Washington University of St. Louis is conducting groundbreaking research into the impacts of international volunteering programs on the volunteers to participate. The CSD has selected Global Potential as one of their programs to work with, and our evaluation surveys have been developed in partnership with them.
	The Columbia University Partnership for International Development (CUPID), founded by GP’s founder in 2005, is a student-led effort across Columbia University to facilitate multidisciplinary dialogue, awareness, and action on international development. CUPID assists Global Potential by providing qualified summer staff who accompany students into the field.
	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.
	ESRI develops geographic information systems (GIS) solutions, and is currently working with GP to integrate mapping into both our curriculum and our field work.
	Family Justice was a leading national nonprofit dedicated to developing innovative, cost-effective solutions that benefit people at greatest risk of cycling in and out of the justice system, making families healthier and neighborhoods safer. In 2009, Family Justice contracted Globalhood to create Developing Your Dreams, a series of 8 workshops for truant youth in East New York.
	GP helps to coordinate educational trips to the Bateys we work in in the Dominican Republic, for Fordham University’s Social Work Graduate students. Fordham’s International Social Work class is developing an assessment tool to help measure the impacts that GP has on the communities we live and work in, and to build capacity among our local youth leader partners to collect data.
	Global Kids is a non-profit organization that uses interactive, experiential methods to educate urban under-served youth on critical issues and inspire them to take action. Global Kids contracted GP to lead a short-term trip for their students to the Dominican Republic in 2009.
	The Edward M. Kennedy Academy For Health Careers is GP Boston’s first partner since December, 2009. GP Boston holds its weekly workshops at the school, a college preparatory high school for Boston students exploring careers in the health professions and related fields.
	The Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Integral in the Dominican Republic has been a major partner in the field since 2008. Global Potential supports their work in biodiesel and health awareness, and they help to connect us to communities in need.
	The International High School at Prospect Heights is a Global Potential partner high school since October 2007. IHS empowers recent immigrant students through a rigorous curriculum that is language rich, interdisciplinary, and project based.
	The John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science is, with the Edward Kennedy Academy for Health Careers, GP’s first partner high school in Boston, since February 2010. The O’Bryant college-preparatory exam school is a diverse, supportive community of learners that engages in a rigorous and comprehensive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program integrated with Humanities.
	The New Heights Neighborhood Center is a GED center located in Washington Heights that provides comprehensive educational, career development, employment, social, and work support services to older youth. In May 2009 GP began working with a cohort of youth from the center, and took them to the field for 6 weeks in October, 2009.
	GP has worked with 3 successive classes at the New School’s Graduate program on New Social Media. Innovative students have helped us get setup on Facebook, Ning, Second Life, Photo-Sharing, and Blogging, to mention only a few.
	The Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. They are providing GP with a venue for screening GP films as well as providing a space for discussions with GP youth and the youth that they serve.
	The Transdiaspora Network is a capacity-building program that is centered on culturally-oriented HIV prevention and awareness activities for youth of Caribbean descent. Our returned youth, during the Community Engagement portion of the GP program, aim to join the Transdiaspora Network’s local youth HIV prevention groups in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.