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Search Institute's 12th annual Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Conference
*ON NOVEMBER 6-8, 2008*, asset builders from across the country and the world will gather in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Search Institute's 12th annual Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Conference. 2008 also marks the 50th Anniversary of Search Institute and there is much to celebrate! We have chosen our theme, Igniting Sparks: Connect to Hope, because we know that
when youth and adults connect with their innate gifts and creativity, their efforts bring renewed hope for the future. We also know each of us has found a spark that gives us the energy and ability to persevere, and an important part of our work is to help ignite this spark in others.
For a info and to register, click here...
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Search Institute's 2008 Conference
November 6-8, 2008
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Conference Theme: Igniting Sparks: Connect to Hope
If you are interested in attending and would like a brochure sent to you,or if you have questions, please call 612-692-5555.
For conference updates, click here...
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5.2.2008 - Alliance Awarded Federal Grant to Make Available 60 AmeriCorps Promise Fellows
The Minnesota Alliance With Youth was awarded a Federal grant to continue hosting 60 AmeriCorps Promise Fellows for 2008-2011. The Promise Fellows will continue their volunteer service in local communities throughout Minnesota to address the academic achievement and civic engagement gaps often faced by youth of diverse ethnic backgrounds, immigrant youth, and low-income youth.
The grant award was announced on May 12, 2008 by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Corporation - which strengthens communities through service - awarded 49 competitive state grants totaling $14,580,446 to organizations across the country to support 1,773 AmeriCorps members. In Minnesota, the Alliance will receive nearly $5,000,000 over the 3-year grant cycle to host 60 AmeriCorps members known as Promise Fellows.
Promise Fellows are volunteers who dedicate a year of national service to their community, and receive a modest living allowance and education award. While serving, Promise Fellows recruit and train community volunteers, coordinate tutoring and mentoring programs for students in need, and organize service-learning projects. To increase the impact in the community 10 Fellows will specifically focus on connecting the best practices and resources of statewide and national partners to local communities, as well as building cross-sector collaborations across the state. “This grant provides a great opportunity for communities, schools, and youth in Minnesota,” says Sarah Dixon, Executive Director of the Alliance. “The enthusiasm and abilities Promise Fellows provide are a wonderful resource to the communities and the youth they serve.”
The Promise Fellows started in Minnesota one year after the Alliance was founded in 1997. The Alliance works to ensure that all young people in Minnesota have access to the resources they need to be successful in school, work and life. To receive this grant reflects the Alliance’s ongoing success implementing the Promise Fellows, though it also highlights the challenges facing Minnesota’s youth. “Minnesota has one of the highest academic and civic engagement gaps in the nation.” says Dixon, “This latest award demonstrates the need to address gaps that affect our young people and our overall quality of life.”
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Mrs. Powell speaks about the Alliance
Mrs. Alma Powell, Chair of America’s Promise Alliance, was the Opening Keynote Address at the Points of Light Foundation/CNCS Annual National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Philadelphia, PA, Monday, July 16, 2007. She referenced the Minnesota Alliance With Youth several times in her speech as a powerful example of how volunteering and national service delivers the Five Promises.
Here's what she had to say:
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"Let me share just a couple of examples of how volunteering and national service have applied the power of “we” to deliver the Five Promises.
"In Minnesota, a statewide Alliance With Youth serves as a collaborative network of partner organizations, schools and communities working together to keep the Five Promises for every young person in the state. The Alliance hosts the AmeriCorps Promise Fellows, who work directly with Alliance partners to support our key strategies. Last September the third “corps” of 60 fellows began a year of service. And because they work together with and through partners, their impact is far greater than you’d imagine that 60 people could make."
Read all of Alma Powell's speech...
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