Be the Change
Youth play a very important role in the environmental movement. Here are some opportunities that the PEI Environmental Network would like to share with you to become move involved in environmental projects and events - locally, nationally and internationally.
“You Have To Be The Change You Want To See In The World” - Mahatma Gandhi
2010 EcoMentors Conference
The second annual EcoMentors Conference will take place at George Brown College in Toronto on August 28th. The conference is an exciting, interactive and FREE day of environmental workshops and training activities for youth across Ontario. Highlights include:
- FREE registration for all youth (ages 15 -24)
- Travel support for participants over 18 (limited time offer)
- Keynote address by Simon Jackson, Spirit Bear Youth Coalition Founder
- Choice of over 14 environmental workshops
- Plus, earn cool green rewards, EcoMentors certification and volunteer hours
REGISTER TODAY!
Deadline: Monday, August 23, 2010 (before 5pm EST).
The EcoMentors Conference is a FREE exciting, and interactive day of youth-oriented environmental workshops and training activities that will inspire and equip you as a young eco-leader. Network and connect with a diverse group of environmentally-engaged youth and organizations from across Canada and take home resources you can use to facilitate peer-led workshops in your community!
Founder of the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition, Simon Jackson
Featuring keynote speaker Simon Jackson
Simon Jackson is the founder of the Sprit Bear Youth Coalition and the inspiration behind an upcoming animated feature film ‘The Spirit Bear’, as well as the 2005 made-for-TV movie ‘Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story’. Simon will speak about his ongoing efforts to protect one of the world’s rarest and most unique animal species, and the critical role that young people can play in encouraging positive environmental awareness and action.
Train to be an EcoMentor!
Youth participants have the opportunity to be trained at the Conference as EcoMentors. Participants will be able to join three fast-tracked training sessions to gain EcoMentors certification enabling youth to facilitate peer-to-peer environmental education in their communities. Find out more about being an EcoMentor.
Sign-up for EcoMentors training for your chance to win a iPod touch!
Choose from a great list of exciting environmental workshops!
*** NOTE: Full workshop listing coming soon ***
You can choose from 14 elective workshops on important environmental and social issues including
- Climate Change/Global Warming
- Human Health & the Environment
- Green Living
- Human Rights, Social Justice, & the Environment
- Wildlife & Biodiversity
- ...and MUCH MORE!
Each session will be facilitated by subject area experts that will inspire you to take action in your community!
Check out our youtube video!
And our event flier!
Out of town? No problem!
A number of FREE RETURN TRAIN TICKETS are available for participants to come to this event from anywhere VIA Rail service exists*. If you want to take advantage of this offer, please indicate your interest in the appropriate section of your registration form.
*Check VIA Rail Canada’s website for train station locations. Due to parental consent issues, this offer can only be extended to participants who are 18 years of age and older. To take advantage of this offer, you must submit your online registration form by August 16th (make sure to indicate your interest in this offer in the appropriate section). We will follow-up with eligible participants individually.
Move Your World! Atlantic Youth Conference
The fifth annual Move Your World Youth Symposium returns October 29-31, 2010 at Broadleaf Guest Ranch, outside Moncton New Brunswick. Move Your World is a three-day, eye-opening event for Atlantic Canadians ages 15-18. The conference brings together a diverse group of youth in a rural setting to learn about global issues and develop skills in an interactive, exciting educational experience. This years theme is Conflict and Peace, we will address the ways conflict and peace impact our lives and the well being of people around the world.
Click HERE to apply. FINAL APPLICATION DEADLINE SEPT 27th 2010.
Move Your World requests a minimum registration fee of $150.00, which reflects a subsidized rate. Actual conference costs are in excess of $270.00 per participant. We encourage all youth and families who can afford a larger donation, to please do so. No youth however will be turned down because of financial circumstances. We understand that the costs are high and we want to provide bursaries to as many people as possible. Fundraising Tips and a Sample Letter are available HERE to gather support from your own community.
We understand that the costs are high and we want to provide bursaries to as many people as possible. Fundraising Tips and a Sample Letter are available HERE to gather support from your own community.
If you have any questions, visit our website or contact Rena Kulczycki, at 902-431-2311 or admin@acic-caci.org.
See you at Move Your World!
Presented by the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation and the Canadian Red Cross.
"Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation" To Provide Financial Grants and Mentoring to Young People for Worldwide Social Service Projects
TakingITGlobal and Pearson Foundation's Sprout e-Course Social Innovation Curriculum To Help Promote Lasting Change.
Istanbul, Turkey (PRWEB) August 12, 2010 - Today, TakingITGlobal and the Pearson Foundation announced the Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation, an international fellowship program that supports the most promising social service projects created by TakingITGlobal's growing online network of youth leaders.
TakingITGlobal's Executive Director Jennifer Corriero presented the initiative in her address at the closing ceremonies of the 5th World Youth Congress, held to launch the United Nations International Year of Youth.
Beginning this fall, The Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation will recognize and support youth-developed projects created as a component of TakingITGlobal's innovative Sprout e-Course curriculum, designed to give young leaders worldwide access to training in essential skills, including team building, project management, communications, and the ability to leverage technology as they imagine, plan, and develop social innovation projects. Since its release in 2008, the Sprout e-Course has helped young people from more than 40 countries build the skills they need to develop their own social innovation projects.
Both the Fellowship and the e-Course are aligned with the main objectives of the World Youth Congress -- finding ways to harness the incredible talent, energy and ingenuity of young people in their shared effort to achieve the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals of eradicating hunger, achieving universal education, gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, promoting environmental sustainability, and developing global partnerships.
The Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation will be awarded to young people with the most promising and well-prepared plans for community projects developed during the Sprout e-course. Two International Fellows will each receive $5,000 to help launch their projects. Ten additional Regional Fellows will each receive a $1,000 award. All Pearson Fellows will receive one-on-one mentoring from experienced social innovators who will consult with them as they implement their project plans. Integral to the program is a special online community where the Fellows can network with their peers, and have access to special online materials and training designed to help them take their projects from the planning stage to reality.
The initial phase of the e-course was developed by TakingITGlobal with a development grant from the Pearson Foundation., Course registration is now open at http://www.sproutecourse.org to any young person who wishes to take part. In January 2011, anyone who has completed a Sprout e-course will be eligible to apply for the Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation.
"The Pearson Foundation was an early believer in TakingITGlobal," said Corriero. "Their support for Sprout made it possible for our organization to turn an idea into a dynamic program with the potential to cultivate young leaders around the world. Now, the Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation has the potential to spark the same possibilities for young people everywhere."
"TakingITGlobal connects young people who share the desire to change and improve the lives of people around them," said Mark Nieker, President of the Pearson Foundation. "The Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation helps incubate similarly great ideas developed from among members of their inspiring online community. With the Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation and the Sprout e-course, we aim to help these young activists put their plans into action and contribute to their goal of building a better world."
More information on the Pearson Foundation can be found at www.pearsonfoundation.org.
More information on TakingITGlobal can be found at www.tigweb.org.
Contact:
Pearson - Rod Granger
Rod.Granger@pearson.com
(800) 745-8489
TakingITGlobal - Michael Furdyk
Co-founder, TakingITGlobal
mfurdyk@takingitglobal.org
(416) 977-9363 x313
