222 Results Are Tagged With "Western Hemisphere"

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Teaching IT Skills to Get Jobs

We want to facilitate getting jobs to young female workers, specially with disabilities, by training them in specific IT-related job skills. As part of a bigger project providing IT Bootcamps (this is, programming languages crash courses) we are requesting these funds to specifically support unattended sectors and guarantee equal jobs opportunities.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Sowing Awareness

Our project aims to foster environmental awareness in children, by involving them in activities about conservation and the responsible use of natural resources. The project offers experience-based workshops and activities in the field to address local biodiversity. Activities will include beach clean-up campaigns and the installation of a tree nursery of threatened species.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - Wednesday, July 1, 2015

PLAYLEE

PLAYLEE (Playing and Learning English) is a national English as a Foreign Language Teaching Program proposed by Youth Colombian Leaders. This Program aims to break the paradigm of learning English as an unreachable by offering the possibility of learning English through experiential education to vulnerable children that belong to low-in-come families in Colombia.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - Wednesday, July 1, 2015

REDAR

We aim at launching the first annual students conference focused on volunteerism and the strengthening of public service and institutions in Argentina and hosted by scholars from Botin Foundation and State Alumni. Activities will start before and go on after the event takes place, becoming a seedbed for social projects and initiatives in the network.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Acting as Global Citizens

This project connects the young in Africa, Asia, and South America through letter exchange and online meetings, giving them opportunities to expose to the world and to deepen their international understandings. Eventually, the project will be expanded to other regions, and more people will start acting as global citizens to create just, prosperous, and peaceful world.

Improving Good Governance in Tajikistan

Since returning to Tajikistan, Hubert H. Humphrey alumna Ms. Gulru Azamova has become a pioneer in the promotion of good governance by improving the efficiency of local institutions and inspiring a new generation of youth with the spirit of public service.

2015 Professional Fellows Program Alumni Impact Awards

Apply now for the Professional Fellows Program Alumni Impact Award for a chance to be honored during this year's Professional Fellows Congresses in Washington, DC.

White House Travel Bloggers Summit #StudyAbroadBecause

Screen shot from the video reads, "Help strengthen the study abroad generation."

The National Security Council hosted a summit in December with 100 of the most influential travel bloggers and digital media outlets at The White House to highlight current U.S. Government initiatives and new strategies for encouraging American students to study, volunteer, and work abroad.

Monday, June 1, 2015 - Sunday, September 20, 2015

VentureLabs Entrepreneurial Fellowship 2015

The Flagship Ventures innovation foundry, VentureLabs, has been creating innovative, game-changing companies since its founding in 2000. Our portfolio of VentureLabs companies are true disruptors in their industries, poised to make a dramatic impact on treatment options for patients, global food production, renewable resources and much more. To date, 27 pioneering, life-science and technology start-ups have been created within VentureLabs, and many more are currently being explored. Contact jround@flagshipventurelabs.com.

Discussing Educational Reform in Iceland

Inspired by her participation in the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship this past summer, Unnur Larusdottir demonstrated her leadership capabilities by organizing a conference on education in her home country, Iceland. Over 200 guests attended the conference, including students, leaders from local universities, journalists, and high ranking members of Parliament.

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