Fwd: [NGONCC] Youth Opportunities
Ranjeev shrestha
From: Prabin Rokaya <prabin...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Subject: [NGONCC] Youth Opportunities
To: Environment-...@googlegroups.com, ngog...@googlegroups.com
Some Youth Opportunities
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Thank you for your time and consideration.
With best regards,
Prabin Rokaya
Kathmandu, Nepal
Director/Team Leader, Jagaran Nepal (JAN)
Founder/CEO, Center for Innovative Studies, Actions and Research (CISAR) Pvt Ltd
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Cartier Women’s Initiative Award
The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards is an international business plan competition for women entrepreneurs.
Since its inception five years ago, it has provided support, visibility and coaching to 76 women heading businesses in countries across the globe.
find everything you need to know about the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards’ application process. Women entrepreneurs in the initial stages of development, in any country, of any nationality and operating in any industry are welcome to submit their application. The application period will end on March 13, 2012.
More Info- http://www.cartierwomensinitiative.com/
UN-HABITAT invites
The UN-HABITAT invites young people based in cities or towns from the developing world to apply for grants of up to USD 25,000. Applications open 15th February 2012 and close April 15th 2012.
To qualify for a grant, the project in question must be led by young people aged 15-32, and be based in cities or towns in developing countries. Grants will be targeted to the young people who need assistance the most, particularly disadvantaged youth in urban slums. Projects promoting gender equality, or involving partnerships with the government, the private sector or civil society are especially encouraged.
For more information regarding the 2012 call for applications, please go to; http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=637.
We are also on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/youthfund.
We would appreciate if you could pass this information along to your relevant networks. Attached is a brochure and press release containing more information.
Regards,
Urban Youth Fund
United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-habitat)
P.O.Box 30030, GPO Nairobi 00100
Kenya.
Dear Changeagents,
Hope everyone is enhancing their benchmarks each day. Youth Alliance(YA) is launching its flagship program "Lead The Change" from March 12 and currently application for the program are open(last date being 28 Februray 2012). I need your support to make it a success, help us spread the word so that we receive quality applicants.
Lead The Change (LTC) is dedicated to developing social leaders; well-rounded youngsters who are equipped with leadership skills to solve the challenges faced by their communities. Its core aim is to ignite young hearts with holistic concern for their society and nation.
LTC Program will involve upto 30 youngsters in a six week program. The program will expose them to pressing issues of our societies such as human dignity, education and rural immersion. They will study solutions offered by role models, personalities and get a short experience in leadership education. They will be expected to apply this experience to come up with solution for a small local issue and in the process, understand how to set up an enterprise. They will emerge with the wealth of a rich network and a sound understanding of systemic social change.
Check out the presentation: http://bit.ly/zCCbGf
FB event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/224606247631265/ (Invite your friends)
FB Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/changeagents (follow for latest updates)
We need your help in spreading the word about it. It will take place in Delhi only. Please share on your FB profile, tweet, tell your friends and anyone who might be interested in such things. Please connect me with other youth organizations in Delhi, media persons, Student Unions etc.
Also connect with role models or people who can conduct leadership workshops, currently we have Anshu (Goonj), Ravi Gulati (Manzil), Swapnil (Jagriti Yatra), Vivek Sharma(Gandhi Fellowship), Shaheen Mistry(TFI), Harsh Mander (NAC), Madhukar (PRS Legislative) taking leadership sessions. We are in talks with few more and hopefully will get them on board for sessions soon.
Looking forward to an ACTIVE response !!!
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Thanks and Regards,
- With love
"Service Before Self"
Prakhar Bhartiya
Youth Alliance
Fellow, Teach For India (2009-2011)
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Tunza Youth Members and Tunza UNEP Partners:
Again, you'll find information on the application and the Urban Youth Funds at the UNEP Asia Pacific Facebook, either -http://www.facebook.com/pages/UNEP-Asia-Pacific-Major-Groups-and-Stakeholders/213305748720260 or google the UNEP Asia Pacific Facebook.
The Urban Youth Fund will only be available as of 15th February, after which you can access the application forms. Note the deadline for this is April 15th 2012.
Major Groups
You'll find information on both on the Major Groups Facebook as well - http://www.facebook.com/pages/UNEP-Asia-Pacific-Major-Groups-and-Stakeholders/213305748720260
All: Please share this information as widely as possible among your networks.
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MAKE BLOG NOT WAR
A Freedom of Expression Training for Bloggers
An initiative of the Internet Democracy Project
Are you a blogger and interested in deepening your understanding of Internet censorship and freedom of expression as they play out in India? Would you like to know more about the ways in which such issues may affect you directly? As a blogger, do you see yourself has having an important stake in the freedom of expression debate?
Then this is your chance. The Internet Democracy Project is organising a training on freedom of expression and censorship for bloggers on 25 February 2012. In the course of this day-long program, a mix of short lectures and more interactive sessions will take you through:
- the history of censorship in India and its current status;
- the legal framework regarding online censorship and the ways in which it may affect you;
- debates on difficult questions such as where and how to draw the line where hate speech is concerned;
- what to do if you are served a legal notice;
- alternatives to censorship to fight problematic content;
and much more. Throughout the training, we will of course be paying particular attention to how all of this may affect your blog and yourself.
As the training aims to be highly interactive and will draw to a significant extent on participants’ experiences and inputs, there will be space for only fifteen select and experienced bloggers. They will be joined by four trainers: lawyer and law and tech blogger Apar Gupta; documentary film maker Bishakha Datta; literary critic, journalist and blogger Nilanjana Roy; and the Internet Democracy Project's Anja Kovacs.
The event will take place in Delhi, from 10 am until 5 pm. Bloggers from all over India are welcome to apply: the Internet Democracy Project will take care of the travel costs of all participants in the event as well as food for the duration of the event (as this is a day-long program, we will, however, not be able to provide any accommodation).
In return for facilitating your presence in the training, we ask that you write five blog posts on issues related to freedom of expression in India in the two months following the event. That is the commitment you make if you decide to join us.
Are you interested in being part of this program? Please send your answers to the questions below to Anja Kovacs, an...@internetdemocracy.in as soon as possible andby 17 February at the latest. Selected participants will be informed on 18 February.
Where do you blog? If you are on Twitter, please do include your Twitter handle as well.
Why are you interested in joining this training?
Have you blogged on or otherwise engaged with freedom of expression issues before? If so, please share some details.
What are particular issues/questions you would like to see covered in the training?
Have you ever implemented any kind of censorship on your blog? Please expand (please note that answering yes to this question is not a reason to disqualify you from participation!).
Has anyone ever attempted to censor you as a blogger in one way or the other? Please expand.
Please note that while a demonstrated interest in one form or another (including on Twitter or Facebook) is definitely a plus, expertise in freedom of expression issues is not a requirement for participation.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Gandhi Fellowship Program
Dear Friend,
I am writing to you for introducing Gandhi Fellowship Program for Final Year Students. Kindly go through it and spread the word among our Friends Teaching or studying in various colleges. Following are the Details of Gandhi Fellowship Program:
The Gandhi Fellowship Program is a full-time, residential, two-year leadership program that selects the best from among the inspired and inventive young people of India to help them develop into Tomorrow's Leaders, by giving practical, grassroots and transformational experience.
The Fellowship is committed to becoming the pipe-line of India's future Leaders and Nation Builders. 130 Gandhi Fellowship joined the Program in July 2011 from top colleges and universities across the country. They are young people with hunger in the belly to develop a Private Dream, and, also the requisite skills and competencies necessary for becoming high performers in their respective domains.
A copy of program in brief and application for 2012 batch is attached.
An intensive 2-year programme that helps talented young people develop the leadership skills to cause disproportionate positive change in society. The Fellowship challenges these young people to support primary school headmasters to turn around their failing schools, thus improving the quality of education provided in India’s government schools. By taking on real challenges and solving ‘live’ problems that exist today in schools across India, Fellows learn the generic skills that will allow them to lead change on a wide range of issues in other sectors. In the process Fellows are themselves supported to discover what they are passionate about, what they want to do with their lives and how to go about converting their dreams into reality. This intense personal change process is needed for Fellows to become the nation’s next generation of leaders.
Structure of Fellowship
The Gandhi Fellowship has been designed in partnership with specialists in LEADERSHIP development. This intense 24-month process, involve:
· A 6-week Induction and Field Orientation that exposes Fellows to the new environment in which they will be working; familiarizes them with the Gandhi Fellow role and responsibilities; raises key issues in the education sector and wider development field
· A 6-week Learning Quality Induction that introduces Fellows to the concept of learning quality and how it can be achieved in the classroom. After training, Fellows take regular classes in primary schools and gain a first-hand experience of what teaching and learning involves,
· A Personal Reflection Week once every 3 months, where Fellows are helped to understand themselves better, clearly articulate their dreams and gain clarity on what brings meaning to their lives,
· A Learning Journey once every 6 months, where Fellows have the opportunity to visit different organizations and interact with experts who can provide insights into a wide variety of fields.
· On a weekly basis Fellows support Headmasters, take part in capacity building sessions, read case studies and articles, and manage to squeeze in some time for fun too. A typical week for each Gandhi Fellow consists of:
· 4 days of field work providing support to 5 Headmasters,
· 1 day of team review and planning,
· 1 day of capacity building with either working sessions or lectures given by specialists from the corporate, academic or development sectors,
· 1 day of relaxation, group activities and fun.
Assistance
· Financial grant of Rs.14000/- per month for 2-years, minus TDS.
· A Shared accommodation.
· Water and electricity charges,
· Rent,
· A cook in each office,
· TA/DA for official purposes,
Eligibility
Anyone and everyone in their final years of Graduation or Post Graduation
From: Jyoti Gopinathan <jyotigop...@gmail.com>
APPLY FOR THE 2012 YOUTHACTIONNET GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP!
Applications are due by: March 12, 2012 at 11:59PM EST
Eligibility
• Open to all young people, ages 18-29 as of October 7, 2012
• Applicants must be the founder/co-founder of an existing organization, or a project within an organization, with a demonstrated one year track record of leading societal change
• Proficiency in English is required; applications must be submitted in English
• Applicants must attend the full retreat (all expenses paid) to take place in the second week of October 2012
Key Dates
Applications for the 2012 Fellowship program are due by March 12, 2012 at 11:59 PM EST
All applicants will be contacted by March 28, 2012 regarding the status of their application.
Finalists will be notified by May 22, 2012.
The 2012 retreat will take place within in the second week of October 2012 in Turkey.
IMPORTANT: Click here to read application instructions BEFORE applying!
Click here to download the Word application.
While online submissions are preferred, applicants may email completed application forms to: y...@iyfnet.org
For questions and comments, contact y...@iyfnet.org
Learn more about the Fellowship application by checking out our Frequently Asked Questions, our Approach to Social Entrepreneurship, and Testimonials from previous Fellows!
ASHOKA YOUTH VENTURE PROGRAMME
ATTENTION TO YOUTH WHO WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
The Ashoka Youth Venture programme, Sri Lanka (a branch of Ashoka Innovators for the public) envisions young and talented people becoming the solution seekers of Sri Lanka. It will eliminate or reduce the barriers and boundaries for youth to positively contribute towards social changes that are vital to uplift the postwar Sri Lankan society. The youth venture efforts also will create a society that empowers and recognizes the innovative ideas of talented youth in order for them to grow bigger and become more influential.
Selection criteria: The following selection criteria will be applied in identifying active youth for this program:
1) The idea/initiative: explores the concept and/or concern that the candidate has already identified. The candidate will have to creatively convince that his/her idea is worth investing, which is substantiated with context and reality and experiences of its impacts. The focus will also be on how the candidate is disturbed by the social unrest/concern, how she/he became aware of it, what has been his/her experience with it, what has she/he done with it (initiatives that have been laid so far), what do they envision and how the vision is achieved. The candidate will have to provide a comprehensive story incorporating these aspects.
2) The social entrepreneurship skill: looks at the capacity of the candidate to lead his/her community and alleviate them from their vulnerable and marginalized position. This will also focus on possessing believes such as active engagement of civil society and social justice. Creative thinking will be an essential aspect. The candidate will have to prove that he/she has been thinking about taking responsibilities to make a difference in their communities using creative and novel approaches. This will also mean that they should have profound knowledge on existing and/or previously used approaches in the same field of interest.
3) Scale up possibilities: explores whether the idea can be replicated, how and at what levels.
4) Ethical fiber: refers to person’s integrity we call for references and do field visits and monitoring through our network.
Ashoka Sri Lanka will carry out YV through a one year support, where we inspire, invest and support them to create entrepreneurial ventures around a social change issue they feel passionate about. In creating and launching their “Ventures,” as they form teams and work together, young people learn the important skills of leadership, teamwork, entrepreneurship and empathy. They also realize that they are powerful and will continue to take initiative and lead their community and society at large.
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Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards
Adobe Youth Voices is the signature philanthropic effort of the Adobe Foundation intended to empower youth and educators through media making experiences that promote social change. As a part of this effort, the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards celebrates the extraordinary work of young media artists from around the world by recognizing top talent in media production.
What are the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards?
§ The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. Winning submissions are original, high-quality youth-produced multimedia created to address critical issues and effect positive change.
§ Submissions are now open! All media must be submitted for youth by an educator in the Adobe Youth Voices educator network or by educators who have registered to Adobe Youth Voices Essentials. The Adobe Youth Voices educator network includes educators who are affiliated with partner organizations. If you are an educator affiliated with Adobe Youth Voices through one of these organizations, please submit your media via the Adobe Youth Voices online community. If you are not part of the Adobe Youth Voices educator network, please submit your media via Adobe Youth Voices Essentials, at http://essentials.youthvoices.adobe.com/.
§ A collection of 160 top media projects will be on display via this website from May 4-June 18, 2012. A variety of prizes will be awarded in several categories based on judges and audience recommendations.
What do we hope to accomplish?
§ We believe the media featured will demonstrate the incredible imagination, talent and skill of youth from throughout the world, using media to communicate their ideas, exhibit their potential, and take action in their communities.
§ The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards recognizes young people as change makers in our world and seeks to strengthen their voices by bringing their projects to a global audience. The Awards partners with other media competitions and festivals around the world to bring these compelling projects to thousands of viewers worldwide.
More Infor- http://www.youthvoices.adobe.com/awards/
Hub Ventures
Hub Ventures helps high caliber
entrepreneurs build their world-changing startups better and faster.
Hub Ventures helps high caliber entrepreneurs build their world-changing startups better and faster. We operate 12-week cohort cycles at Hub Bay Area, during which participating companies receive seed funding and engage in best-in-class mentorship, collaborative sessions with program peers, and workshops and speaker events on topics relevant to impact oriented startups. We also connect companies with our extensive network of investors during the program and at Investor Day, an opportunity to pitch to hundreds of Bay Area investors.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We recommend you submit your application as early as possible. Please note that it is not possible to save your work within this form and complete it later. Write out your answers in a different program and paste them in once you are ready to submit.
More info- http://hub-ventures.com/apply/
YES course program 2012 – Apply Now
· NEW ACTIS webpage
· NEW YES Alumni Online courses
· YES Alumni survey 2011/12
· YES Alumni webpage and “yahoo list”
Dear Yessers’, dear friends,
I very much hope, this message finds you all well, and you started with courage, enthusiasm, and in good health into this New Year 2012. I’m happy to inform you, that YES will continue also in 2012, and here are a few first NEWS in short.
YES courses 2012 – Apply now!
· YES Japan, 23 March – 10 April (application close, course fully booked)
· YES Serbia, 29 June – 16 July (application open)
· YES Unites States, 16 August – 1 September (application open)
· YES Kenya, 26 October – 12 November (application to come soon)
· YES Niger (Alumni Special course), December (exact date to be confirmed)
All details of these courses, brochures and application forms are to be found on our new ACTIS webpage www.actis-education.ch. Your help in promoting these courses through your networks is highly appreciated. Please find a readymade promotional message you can just copy/paste, at the bottom of this news letter.
NEW YES Alumni Online courses
As the announcement for our 1st online course didn’t meet a big interest we as ask to send us back the attached 2-minure survey. The brochure for this course on social business stewardship you also find attached. Thank you for your help and we will keep you informed on the outcome.
YES Alumni address search and inquiry 2011/12.
In October 2011 Rodrigo Santos from Brazil started a search on lost YES Alumni mail-addresses, together with a short survey. We are thankful to all who responded on this request. But we still miss many of our old friends who meanwhile and maybe years back changed their eMail contacts. We therefore add another few weeks before closing this search, and kindly ask the ones who did not yet respond, to do it now under the link:https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YES_Alumni_Survey_2011
We will close this task shortly, and all who responded in time will receive the results of this survey.
Regarding the YES Alumni network, I also remind you, to let me know, if you have problems to access our YES Alumni webpage (www.yesalumni.org), and/or you do not receive any messages via our yesa...@yahoogroup.com mailing list. I will then send you the corresponding sign ins.
I wish you lots of success in whatever you do right now, and where ever you are, maybe – like me – still hoping for a more just and sustainable future of mankind.
in peace and with warm regards
Roger
Message for the course promotion 2012, and Thank you for mailing this out through your networks:
Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES)
5 courses of 18 days in 2012 – Apply Now
· YES Japan, 23 March – 10 April (application closed, course fully booked)
· YES Serbia, 29 June – 16 July
· YES United States, 16 August – 1 September
· YES Kenya, 26 October – 12 November
· YES Niger (special course), December (exact date to be confirmed)
For details, brochures and application forms, please check on our webpage: www.actis-education.ch
Dear colleagues and friends,
ACTIS, in collaboration with the Alliance for Global Sustainability,AGS (a university partnership between the ETH Zürich, MIT Boston, University of Tokyo and Chalmers University Gothenburg), the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW), as well as related partners such as UNEP-Nairobi, the Donella Meadows Institute-USA, and private institutions, are pleased to announce the opening of the applications for the 2012 Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) courses.
The YES course aims to sensitize participants to the complex issues of sustainable development in a global context, through course work, field trips, workshops, group work, and discussions in a practical, international learning experience, combined with social and cultural activities. The course brings together an inspiring group of upper level students and young professionals from different disciplines, cultures and nationalities to learn together in a unique environment. The program builds on 11 years of experience successfully running YES in 10 different countries. ACTIS is an ETH spin-off organization created specifically to expand the YES program and related activities.
For more information and all course details consult our web page:
Please forward this message within your networks to colleagues, universities, organizations and institutions that may be interested. We appreciate your help to promote this unique, and inexpensive learning experience.
Sincerely,
Dr. Roger Baud
Director
Dr. Roger Baud
Tel.: +41 44 280 33 06
Fax: +41 44 281 22 44
mobile: +41 79 502 21 24
email: roger...@actis-education.ch
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