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GVN Foundation surpasses $1 million milestone!
Filed under: Eat So They Can, GVN Foundation
New York, August 27, 2010 - Courtney Montague, Executive Director of The Global Volunteer Network Foundation (GVN Foundation) and 2009 NYU Catherine B Reynolds Fellow, has announced that GVN Foundation has raised $1.2 million for communities in need around the world since its inception in 2005.
Montague says that reaching the milestone has not been easy but it has been an incredibly insightful and rewarding journey.
“It’s been fun, amazing, stressful and profoundly meaningful over the last five years for me as GVN Foundation’s Executive Director. I went from running GVN Foundation in a spare room of my house to having a formal office, and an incredible team of people committed to social change,” says Montague.
GVN Foundation is 99% publically supported and since 2005 funds have gone towards helping women and children living in poverty across Africa, Asia, and South America.
GVN Foundation Highlights:
Uganda - funded the construction of a kitchen and a science laboratory at Springs of Hope High School.
Peru - helped fund the construction of a new bathroom, kitchen, dining room and laundry at the Hogar Mercedes de Jesus (orphanage).
Nepal - helped fund the construction of the Shining Stars Children’s Home and Brighter Future Children’s Home.
Haiti - funded the construction of the GVN Jacmel Community Centre.
Special Consultative status by the United Nations - granted to GVN Foundation (2009)
Eat So They Can and GVN Foundation Grants - March 2010
Filed under: Eat So They Can, GVN Foundation, Grants
Eat So They Can and GVN Foundation have made the following grants recently:
Eat So They Can Grant - $687: This grant will be used to complete the construction of the first group of 10 houses at Pipeline IDP camp in Kenya.
Eat So They Can Grant - $1,376.30: This grant will be used to reconnect the electricity at Shelter Children’s Home in Kenya.
$450 emergency relief grant sent to CERV in the Philippines to help fund their work to assist the victims of typhoon ketsana.
$13,253.16 ESTC grant for VICDA: This grant will be used to support several orphanages in and around Nairobi both with their immediate needs and sustainability projects. Funds will also be used to run a porridge program at several IDP camps.
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Children in Africa need your help!
Filed under: Eat So They Can, GVN, GVN Foundation
Every five seconds a child dies because she or he is hungry, that’s the equivalent of forty five 747’s full of children crashing every day.
We have a way for you to help in the movement to end child poverty and hunger. All you need to do is join Eat So They Can and host a fundraising event. The event can be breakfast, lunch, or dinner; it can be a small gathering, an elaborate dinner, a party, a cocktail hour… whatever you choose!
Eat So They Can is co-sponsored by the Global Volunteer Network, and the GVN Foundation. This year, on October 17th-18th, hosts around the world will share a meal with friends and raise money to benefit the GVN Foundation’s African Children’s Fund: http://www.eatsotheycan.org/about/fund.php.
Raising $100 will buy 20 thick blankets.
Raising $250 will buy school books for 500 orphaned children.
Raising $500 will feed 30 orphans for 3 months.
Please Eat So They Can. To sign up as a host, click here:
http://www.eatsotheycan.org/getinvolved/signup.php.
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GVN Media Fellowship
Filed under: Eat So They Can, GVN, GVN Foundation, News, Programs, Treks
Can you stand out from the crowd?
Have you got what it takes to start a movement? An exciting opportunity could be weaving its way to you.
We’re looking for bright, wildly talented, enthusiastic individuals with a passion for making a difference and the ability to make it happen.
We need you to spread “the GVN word” through print, photography or film in a way that we’ve never tried before. We want you to take the essence of what we do and put it out there with your innovative stamp on it.
We don’t believe in stifling creativity, we want to encourage it. All we ask is that your project relates to one of the following fields:
Volunteering with GVN - www.volunteer.org.nz
Eat So They Can - www.eatsotheycan.org
Treks - www.gvnfoundation.org/programs/treks/
Be The Change - www.gvnfoundation.org/gvn_changemakers/courses/
As one of our elite Media Fellows, your passion for affecting change, coupled with creative ideas will see GVN’s global impact increase.
In return you will receive:
- valuable practical experience
- a forum to display your creative work
- your work published online
- access to GVN’s extensive network
- and so much more!
Eat So They Can
Filed under: Eat So They Can, GVN
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
These profound words from Mother Theresa were famously spoken many, many years ago. She is no longer with us but her message lives on and it is more relevant, more critical than ever. Because every day 25, 000 people are dying around the world from hunger; 18,000 of them are children.
Right now we can not save them all, but right now we can save some.
Please sign up to our Eat So They Can campaign and help children break free from poverty www.eatsotheycan.org/getinvolved/signup.php
Please eat so they can.
For those of you who have not heard about it, the Eat So They Can campaign is GVN’s international fundraiser that invites citizens of the world to participate in what is collectively one huge dinner party; where something as simple as sharing a meal with friends can help stop child poverty.
HOSTS WHO SIGN UP NOW WILL RECEIVE:
RESOURCE GUIDE
Next week we will be sending out the online ESTC Resource Guide which is full of information and handy resources - poster, placemat, invitation, table card setting, recipe ideas, media kit.. plus lots, lots more!
Eat So They Can
Filed under: Eat So They Can, Fundraising, GVN Foundation
Have you ever wondered how you could help fight poverty?
Do you like getting together with your friends and family and enjoying a meal together? Have you ever wanted to travel to Africa to do aid work? Well now GVN is giving you the opportunity to do all of these things!
How?
By joining ‘Eat So They Can’ - our international fundraiser that invites citizens of the world to participate in what is collectively one huge dinner party! Simply eat a meal, raise money, help stop child poverty and you could win the grand prize trip to Africa!
Anyone who raises $500 or more from their event will be entered into our drawing to help distribute funds raised!
The United Nations’ #1 Millennium Development Goal is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. But here we find ourselves past the midway point and there are still over 900 million people living on less than USD $1 a day!
We cannot fight global hunger alone. We need you!
Eat So They Can
Filed under: Eat So They Can
Go into the draw to win an expense paid trip to Kenya when you enter to be a host in our Eat So They Can Fundraiser. For more information on the event, and the grand prize:
> Eat So They Can.
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Eat So They Can
Filed under: Eat So They Can
What if I were to tell you that forty-five 747 Boeings filled with children crashed today?
This shocking statement thankfully is not true, but tragically, this is the equivalent of children who die every day from starvation - 18,000.
To help put an end to child poverty the GVN Foundation has launched a global fundraising campaign called ‘Eat So They Can.’ This is not another humanitarian campaign asking you to go without - there are already too many people suffering through want of food.
Rather, this campaign invites citizens of the world to participate in what will collectively be one huge dinner party; where something as simple as sharing a meal with friends can help stop child poverty.
On Saturday October 13 in celebration of World Food Day (October 16) the Foundation invites you to ‘Eat So They Can’ by hosting, or encouraging a friend to host a tasty meal. The money that each dinner party raises will be used to support our partner organizations in Kenya to help them provide orphaned children with the essentials for survival.
