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Global Visionaries: Building Tomorrow’s Leaders
Take teenagers from south Seattle or Mercer Island to observe garbage sorting at a dump in Guatemala to learn about subsistence living, and you might just change their lives. Such has been the case for participants of Global Visionaries (GV), the Seattle-based program empowering youth to become active leaders and global citizens. It’s a program built from founder Christopher Fontana’s belief that today’s youth can be the leaders of today when given the opportunity. GV organizes both year-long and intensive programs, each culminating in a cultural immersion trip to Antigua, Guatemala. Key to the programs’ success is the socio-economic, racial and ethnic mix of participants, who learn from each other to face social biases and work together:
“As someone coming from the south end of Seattle, getting to know other kids from Mercer Island along with my other Cleveland High School peers was a powerful thing. Stereotypes are destroyed and I think we are all better for it.” [Read more]
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Questions For: Bill And Paula Clapp, Co-Founders, Seattle International Foundation
Bill and Paula Clapp are among Seattle’s most distinguished philanthropic couples. While Paula is making news this week with a new program for local youths, the couple has made it a personal mission to build the region into an international philanthropic hub. In 1994 they founded Global Partnerships, a microloan nonprofit serving parts of Latin America. Since then they’ve created the Seattle International Foundation and Global Washington, organizations that have strengthened Seattle’s reputation in the global health and development sector. This week the Clapps discussed putting Seattle... [Read more]
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Global Washington’s K-20 Education Summit, November 18th
by Anna von Essen
What is global education? And how do we make sure that all students in the State of Washington (K-20) receive a truly global education that prepares them to succeed in a globally connected, dependent world?
These are just a few of the critical questions that 150 attendees began to answer at Global Washington’s Global K-20 Education Summit on Friday November 18th, 2011. [Read more]
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