Category Archives: Opportunities

04.24.09
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Global Youth Service Day!

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Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) is taking place from April 24 to 26, and according to organizers, is the largest annual service event in the world. The annual days of service aim to “highlight and celebrate the difference youth make in their communities year-round through community service and service-learning.”

This weekend, estimated millions of young people will participate in and lead service projects in all 50 states and in more than 100 countries.

In partnership with families, schools, community organizations, faith-based communities, and businesses, the young people will address critical issues such as global climate change, homelessness, poverty, health, hunger, homelessness, education and illiteracy.

Youth spokesperson Miley Cyrus has been promoting GYSD this year — learn more about her involvement and check out her blog.

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04.17.09
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New Podcast: Volunteer, National Service, and Nonprofit Resources on the Resource Center

Resource Center logoThe newest Idealist podcast features the Resource Center.

The Resource Center, a website of the Corporation for National and Community Service, is the repository of over 8,000 nodes of training tools, publications, and effective practices to support volunteer programs, nonprofits, and people involved with the AmeriCorps family of programs. The Resource Center–free and accessible to all audience–boasts a 3,000-item lending library as well as a calendar of events of interest to national service programs and nonprofits.

The guests on The New Service podcast are Laura Norvig, the Resource Center’s librarian, and Jason Scott, the Training Officer and eLearning Specialist at the Corporation for National and Community Service. Listen to the podcast. Continue reading →

04.16.09
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Young Professionals of the Indian Diaspora Contribute Skills and Time to India

picture-101The Indian service program that recruits people of Indian family background, from all around the world, has launched a program to offer shorter-term opportunities specifically for young professionals.

Indicorps invites young Indian professionals to commit their time and skills to India through the Young Professionals Initiative (YPI), a new sabbatical program that allows people to meaningfully bring their knowledge and talents to India.

YPI, still in pilot phase, offers new experts in a variety of fields the opportunity to participate in half-year, goal-oriented service projects that can have an enormous impact for good on Indian communities.

The program will run between July 1 and December 1, 2009.

Associates will take on these projects (see full project descriptions):

04.15.09
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Global Citizen Year Searching for its Founding Class of Fellows

picture-81Guest contributor Wil Keenan is a program associate at Global Citizen Year.

Global Citizen Year (GCY) is building a new generation of Americans to lead the fight against global poverty. Each year, we select and train a diverse cohort of emerging leaders who will participate in a transformational “bridge year” between high school and college.

With our support, GCY Fellows defer their college enrollment and spend a year living with families and working as apprentices with community organizations in Asia, Africa, or Latin America — learning a new language, re-shaping their sense of themselves in the world, and preparing to begin college with global perspective and a clearer sense of purpose.

GCY is currently conducting a national search for its founding class of Fellows. We are looking for a diverse group of Continue reading →

04.07.09
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Call for Actors: A Play Written by a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Is Casting in NYC

RPCV & playwright Damian Wampler

RPCV & playwright Damian Wampler

Guest contributor Erica Burman is the Director of Communications for the National Peace Corps Association, the independent organization of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Follow the NPCA on Twitter. This post is cross-posted from the Peace Corps Polyglot blog.

Twin Towers, a play written by Damian Wampler, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer RPCV), is looking for actors in New York.

The play was written in 2007 and 2008, and was selected to be part of the Planet Connections Theater Festivity. It premieres in New York City this June for six performances. Twin Towers will be directed by Angela Astle, whose sister and husband are RPCVs.

The two main characters, one an RPCV, the other an Iraq war veteran, are reunited in their neighborhood in the Bronx after being separated for years. The play uses music and dance to forward the story of childhood friends reunited in a politically and socially divided America. You can read more about the story on the play’s blog.

A casting call for all roles will be held Sunday, April 12th.

Some roles:

Esther Forde:  Proud, wise woman, mid 60’s; grandmother to Trevor, but has raised him. Continue reading →