OUTCOMES
The Summit does not end with your flight home. Before and during the Summit we will announce a number of Outcome initiatives – financial grants, resource development, consulting, advising, and more – that you have access to to help your project move from idea to reality. What’s more, as soon as you leave, you become part of a dynamic alumni community which will give you continued digital access to the support, ideas, and connections of your IYVS peers and facilitators. We provide an infrastructure for you to maintain and extend the relationships that begin at the Summit.
During our first year, we offered an outcome grant prize package worth more than $10,000 to our IYVS2006 delegates. You can view last year’s application here. We were looking for projects that demonstrated an understanding of challenges, utilized available assets, harnessed individual potentials, prioritized relationships and community connections. We also wanted to support projects that had exciting and achievable objectives, and a good plan for getting there. Finally, we were interested in projects that could open up new opportunities for other undergraduates.
The projects selected, proposed by Ryan Richards (Juniata College ’06) and Rolf Garcia-Gallont (Duke ’06), focus on maximizing the potential for economic and educational development and empowerment in Guatemala.
The grand prize package was awarded to Ryan Richards for his project “Capacity Building at the Colegio Miguel Angel Asturias.” The Colegio is an innovative school focused on underserved Mayan populations that addresses long-standing educational deficiencies with a curriculum that involves human rights, environmental stewardship, and which empowers students and their parents as educational consultants and developers.
Ryan’s project will utilize the assets of international undergraduate volunteers to develop the Colegio’s organizational capacity and scalability. The Just Naïve Enough Center for Global Engagement will work closely with Ryan and the directors of the Colegio to design a curriculum that prepares undergraduates for responsible, effective, and sustainable engagement with communities at the Colegio, and helps them develop the particular skills needed for productive interaction.
Francis F. Korten, PhD., Executive Director of the Positive Futures Network, writes that “Ryan’s plans hold great promise for helping the vital non-profit sector expand in Guatemala.”
The prize package will include a grant for Ryan’s living expenses, international volunteer grants, pre-departure volunteer academic training courses offered through Northwestern University, and connection, support, consultation and mentoring with a variety of experts.
Rolf Garcia-Gallont was also awarded a prize package for his project “Accion Emprendadora: Guatemala.” AE: Guatemala will empower Guatemalan populations to take control of their financial destiny through micro-loans and intensive financial training, support, and consulting. It utilizes the assets of professionals and university students in Guatemala to provide this training free of cost. Rolf will adapt the demonstrably successful model from Chile where it originated.
The CGE will support him with a grant for travel to Chile to work with the AE Founders, as well as organizational development, support and consulting. American students will have the chance to develop their organization management skills in helping AE: Guatemala grow.
Over the next few years, we hope to continue to grow the resources we offer our alumni community. Initiatives on the way include more financial and consulting grants, better communications infrastructures, access to international organization/volunteer experience reviews, preferential access to photos and digital marketing materials, and more.
The Summit does not end with your flight home. Before and during the Summit we will announce a number of Outcome initiatives – financial grants, resource development, consulting, advising, and more – that you have access to to help your project move from idea to reality. What’s more, as soon as you leave, you become part of a dynamic alumni community which will give you continued digital access to the support, ideas, and connections of your IYVS peers and facilitators. We provide an infrastructure for you to maintain and extend the relationships that begin at the Summit.
During our first year, we offered an outcome grant prize package worth more than $10,000 to our IYVS2006 delegates. You can view last year’s application here. We were looking for projects that demonstrated an understanding of challenges, utilized available assets, harnessed individual potentials, prioritized relationships and community connections. We also wanted to support projects that had exciting and achievable objectives, and a good plan for getting there. Finally, we were interested in projects that could open up new opportunities for other undergraduates.
The projects selected, proposed by Ryan Richards (Juniata College ’06) and Rolf Garcia-Gallont (Duke ’06), focus on maximizing the potential for economic and educational development and empowerment in Guatemala.
The grand prize package was awarded to Ryan Richards for his project “Capacity Building at the Colegio Miguel Angel Asturias.” The Colegio is an innovative school focused on underserved Mayan populations that addresses long-standing educational deficiencies with a curriculum that involves human rights, environmental stewardship, and which empowers students and their parents as educational consultants and developers.
Ryan’s project will utilize the assets of international undergraduate volunteers to develop the Colegio’s organizational capacity and scalability. The Just Naïve Enough Center for Global Engagement will work closely with Ryan and the directors of the Colegio to design a curriculum that prepares undergraduates for responsible, effective, and sustainable engagement with communities at the Colegio, and helps them develop the particular skills needed for productive interaction.
Francis F. Korten, PhD., Executive Director of the Positive Futures Network, writes that “Ryan’s plans hold great promise for helping the vital non-profit sector expand in Guatemala.”
The prize package will include a grant for Ryan’s living expenses, international volunteer grants, pre-departure volunteer academic training courses offered through Northwestern University, and connection, support, consultation and mentoring with a variety of experts.
Rolf Garcia-Gallont was also awarded a prize package for his project “Accion Emprendadora: Guatemala.” AE: Guatemala will empower Guatemalan populations to take control of their financial destiny through micro-loans and intensive financial training, support, and consulting. It utilizes the assets of professionals and university students in Guatemala to provide this training free of cost. Rolf will adapt the demonstrably successful model from Chile where it originated.
The CGE will support him with a grant for travel to Chile to work with the AE Founders, as well as organizational development, support and consulting. American students will have the chance to develop their organization management skills in helping AE: Guatemala grow.
Over the next few years, we hope to continue to grow the resources we offer our alumni community. Initiatives on the way include more financial and consulting grants, better communications infrastructures, access to international organization/volunteer experience reviews, preferential access to photos and digital marketing materials, and more.
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