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19 people are interested
Benefit Committee Member for Global Education Organization
ORGANIZATION: Reach the World
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19 people are interested
Every year since 2001, Reach the World, a New York City-based nonprofit organization, has held an annual benefit. The guest count is typically between 100 and 150 guests from diverse New York City and CT-based industries. The event format includes cocktails, a silent auction, a live auction, a sit-down dinner, and an award presentation at the end of the evening.
The success of Reach the World's events are entirely dependent on the volunteer Benefit Committee members whose work and creativity make each event possible. Volunteering for RTW is a substantive way to gain event experience, network with other NYC professionals, and give back to a good cause.
Reach the World welcomes all serious applicants to the 2014-2015 event committee. The 2015 benefit will take place on March 11, 2015 at the Boathouse in Central Park.
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please fill out every field in the application to your best ability. Be creative! Please do not apply for this position if you do not intend to follow through, or if your schedule is too crowded to permit a volunteer opportunity that will take a few hours of your time each week.
The kickoff meeting will be in late November 2014. Mandatory meeting dates/times:
- Wednesday, January 7: Envelope-stuffing & pizza party, 6PM-7:30PM
- Tuesday, March 10: Benefit prep work party, 5:30PM-7PM
- Wednesday, March 11: RTW Annual Benefit. Volunteers needed from 2:30PM-11PM
The committee will also meet by conference call roughly once per every two weeks between kickoff and event!
Applications are competitive; incomplete applications will not be considered. Thank you for your volunteer spirit and desire to help ensure that all youth have access to global experiences that prepare them for college and careers in the 21st Century!
To apply for this volunteer opportunity, please fill out this online application: http://www.tfaforms.com/184303.
More opportunities with Reach the World
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About Reach the World
Location:
222 Broadway, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10007, US
Mission Statement
Reach the World's vision is to build a pipeline of globally-competent students and educators who will succeed in and steward the 21st Century global community. RTW’s mission is to build, deploy and evaluate a set of global mentoring programs that reach and engage disadvantaged students throughout the K-16 academic cycle. Since 1998, RTW has been a leader in the effort to ensure that all students are prepared to participate, interact and thrive in today’s global community and economy. To date, RTW’s global competence programs have served more than 15,000 students and 600 teachers. The program is headquartered in New York City. The National Geographic Society Education Foundation named RTW a Model Program in Geography Education.
Description
Reach the World transforms the energy of volunteer world travelers into a mentoring and teaching resource for disadvantaged youth. RTW selects and trains a corps of volunteer travel correspondents each semester. RTW then makes one-on-one matches between these travel correspondents and classrooms in disadvantaged public school, afterschool and summer school sites. Through a highly structured, Standards-based program of web-based journalism, videoconferencing and collaborative project-making, RTW students go on virtual journeys with their global mentors and expand their worldview in the process. RTW also delivers technology and curricular support via classroom assistants drawn from partners such as Teachers College, Columbia University.
Most of Reach the World’s travel correspondents are college students on study abroad programs around the world. In 2009, RTW began partnering with the Institute of International Education’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program to engage a select group of its study-abroad scholars as volunteer correspondents for the RTW website. The Gilman Program offers awards for study abroad for U.S. undergraduate students who are receiving Federal Pell Grant funding. RTW also partners with the Fulbright Program. In the future, RTW envisions working with other college and university partners that share RTW’s commitment to community service and international exchange.
Reach the World also aims to redesign geography education for the 21st Century through its GeoGames curriculum. GeoGames is a family of geography learning games originally funded by the National Geographic Society Education Foundation and based on research by Dr. Susan Lowes at Teachers College, Columbia University. GeoGames won the Travelocity GENIP Award for Excellence in Geography Education, a national honor.
Have you traveled? Has anyone shared their travel stories with you? Has this affected your worldview? If you can answer "Yes" to any of these questions, then you understand the mission of Reach the World. RTW is capitalizing upon an existing energy in our society - travelers - and turning it into an educational resource for all children and teachers. Through Reach the World, the age-old tradition of traveling and sharing stories makes the leap into the digital age - and for once, disadvantaged students are along for the ride.
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222 Broadway21st FloorNew York, NY 10038
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October 30, 2014
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