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Press Coordinator
ORGANIZATION: Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation
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Public Relation/ Press Coordinator Job Description
As the PR Coordinator, it is your job to ensure that all events and workshops are publicized by doing the following
* Write and distribute all press release for Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation events.
* Update website
* Connect with the community radio stations and local media to publicize events if
Necessary.
* Perform outreach and follow up volunteers, donor, directors, etc.
* Coordinate with Give a Kid a Backpack volunteers and director to help with flier
Creation and distribution.
* Send mass emails concerning Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation event or issues to staff and volunteers and take responsibility for organizing the email box keeping it cleaned out
* Attend Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation meetings
* Attend Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation events and it is your responsibility to focus on publicizing these events, and working with representatives from other organization who are also working publicity.
* Keep detailed record of the projects you are doing and how are publicizing events. You will need to turn in detailed description evaluation your projects and what went wrong and right for future volunteers, so you will need to be working on this throughout the whole year. You will also need to keep files and computer folders for your position organized and up to date with the projects you work on.
- In all your work be actively addressing the importance of these children receiving an opportunity to get an education and awareness for the children of the U.S.
- Work with your fellow coordinators!!! You need to be willing to communicate with co-volunteers and make a commitment to making the Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation open, safe, and valuable resource for all
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About Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation
Location:
P,O. Box 120397, 2105 Hartwood Marsh Rd Suite 6, clermont, FL 34712, US
Mission Statement
Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation is atax deductible nonprofit organization that enriches the lives of children in need around the world by providing a backpack filled with school supplies. Give a Kid a Backpack partners with U. S. and foreign charities to hand deliver backpacks filled with school supplies.
Description
One particular target of our efforts is to deliver backpacks to poor rural school age children living in poverty in underveloped countries. Even though these children theoretically have access to public schools, they can't always go. They are required to pay a registration and supply their own uniforms and school supplies in order to be allowed to attend these schools. Many children can't afford this and as a result, never receive an education.
As schools are forced to charge fees, fewer people are able to send their children and education is mainly available only to the better-off.
- 115 million children around the world aren't in school. Poor kids often can't go to school because they need to work to help their families survive.
- Two-thirds of the kids who don't go to school are girls.
- More than 70% of the out-of-school children are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
- Of those who go to school, one-third drop out before they learn to read, write and count.
- Over 15% of children in developing countries don't complete a course of primary education. In Sub-Saharan Africa, less than 60% of children complete a course of primary education.
- Nearly 1 billion adults in the world are illiterate. Women account for 2/3 of all illiterate adults.
- Enrolment in tertiary education (enrolling in a university) in poor countries was less than 10% in 1997, compared to 57% in rich countries.
- Rich countries some spend $4,000 on a student each year, while developing countries spend $40.
- In Sub-Saharan Africa, at least 40 million children are out of school--22 million of them girls.
- In South Asia, 36 million of children are out of school--22 million of them girls.
- In East Asia and the Pacific, there are 12 million children out of school--6 million of them girls.
- In the Arab States, there are 7.4 million children out of school--4.5 million of them girls.
- In Latin America, there are 2.5 million children out of school--1.2 million of them girls.
Benefits of Education
- Educated mothers are 50% more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling. (Net Aid)
- It is well known that the acquisition of literacy and numeracy, especially by women, has an impact upon fertility. (EFA Global Monitoring Report)
- More recently, it has become clear that the cognitive skills required to make informed choices about HIV/AIDS risk and behavior are strongly related to levels of education and literacy. (EFA Global Monitoring Report)
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
2105 hardwood Marsh Road Suite 6clermont, FL 34711
DATE POSTED
February 15, 2006
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A