Update on launching the Card Game & lots more! Dear friends, greetings after a silent late winter of much preparation for the new phase. I hope that this message finds you well. Many of us 44 featured HeroInes have been busy, made magnificient steps on their quests, others are going through a calm phase. I am sharing VERY IMPORTANT news about YL and our common venture. There's many super fantastic news, and also - this is the time that I need your help - SERIOUSLY - but just for half an hour - to help you and countless people and the Earth. Please take a couple of minutes to suck in the news.
I wasn't sure which photo to choose, - and since rhinos, elephants and horses have all been present in media in emergency issues, I chose to take them all. After all, we cannot have enough spirit allies on this urgent quest of our lifetime - and for taking Change Generation Rising into every school in the world.
First of all, the website is candy, now, with lots of lush visual impressions of all your activities. Next, the YL Card Game is ready to go in an updated edition. Many of you have their deck(s), and those who have not will soon get it. I apologize for delays - there has been some misunderstanding in mailings for months. But Avalon should have her hands on dozens of decks these days and is ready to send them our right away. I would enjoy hearing whether you have got yours, and how you like it. Questions and feedback are welcome to polish it up. I have already made edits to make the Rules more easy to understand for people who have not grown up playing Top Trumps.
Feedback is super awesome! Find out on the next page.
TRANSLATION TO 15 LANGUAGES IS ALMOST COMPLETE
60 ONLINE VOLUNTEERS are translating your stories, and they love it! arabic, chinese, english, french, german, hebrew, hindi, hungarian, japanese, polish, portuguese, russian, spanish, turkish, vietnamese
TRANSCRIPTION OF YOUR MOST INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO IS COMPLETE TRANSLATION AND SUBTITLING WILL FOLLOW for better accessibility by school children around the globe. We are uploading them to a chinese video platform for accessibility in China (no youtube or vimeo, there)
FEEDBACK FROM USERS AROUND THE GLOBE. HUGE! The game serves the interests of MANY BIG USER GROUPS: USE AS ROLE MODELS IN SCHOOL People in civil society, conservation and youth work have ordered games. Elementary school teachers in the USA have bought games, are exploring using it in the official curriculum. A teacher in Poland is preparing for use in class, exhibits, and for national promotion A mother, very active in youth action in schools in Austria is preparing poster exhibits and sponsoring for hundreds of games for the city of Vienna. An internationally highly experienced youth leader sees it as a must for all youth on the planet, and is preparing for promotion through hundreds of contacts globally Some of our friends working in development cooperation plan on sending some overseas Public libraries love the games, posters and coming books and ask me for infos for their staff, so they can direct visiting school classes to our media! They also ask me for recommended books about youth leadership. USE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING. That's huge! A high school teacher in Korea reports that it has been one of the most energized english lessons ever. Everybody had something to say, even the most quiet students. An "english as a foreign language for adults" teacher in Poland reports that never before have the bueisnss people in his class been this captivated, focussed and active in expressing themselves in english (presenting heroes to others in their own words) USE AS GIFT TO ACTIVE YOUTH A featured organization is interested in making it a gift to their young members, and has enquired about the cost for 8,000 games.
People around the globe LOVE the stories, videos, well - and YOU!!!
Each multiplier, be it > a teacher > adult language trainer > philanthropic club > organization > citizen club using the game reaches 100's of youth and adults
inspiring them to > explore our websites > get involved in promoting our media > spreading card games to their city's youth > using the posters, videos and teaching tools in class > setting up the poster exhibit > growing the YL Warrior Clans student club community
> and support your initiatives The Youth-LeadeR cardgame page encourages everybody
> to connect with local philanthropic clubs like Rotary Clubs and Lions Clubs > and send them our cover letter TO INSPIRE THEM TO INVEST in 100 GAMES for their city's kindergartens, schools, youth clubs and public libraries ... which again adds to our growth.
This is where I NEED YOUR HELP. It is very important for me to get first orders by Rotary clubs, Lions clubs, and all sorts of other partners to invest in games. Who could be in a better position to inspire Philanthropic clubs to do so than the HeroInes appreciated and celebrated in their region? ... and that your example + of 43 other young changemakers can now become even better available to thousands of kids in their city. This can very well be combined with mentioning that > you are available as speaker, and via webcast > for the Philanthropic Club > for schools etc. and that > inspired youth can join your initiative
I have a COVER LETTER for you to use, an EXCELLENT INFO BROCHURE and a really GOOD WEBSITE providing all the information, visual impressions etc I would like to invite you to briefly check them out, especially flipping through the brochure here: http://bit.ly/1f7TEDP You can access it also via www.youth-leader.org/cardgame The frontpage links to it, too. I am going to edit the cover letter and send it to you tomorrow.
Okay. Beyond the cardgame, there is more. The ACTION PACKS for your causes. Here is no.1: With Avalon Theisen (frogs, wetlands etc.) I am working on a global call for contributions by young people to a FROG cardgame, along with sounds, videos and their own photos and story of the day of discovery. This is already, cool, but her Action pack will be FULL with activities, connected with no one less but the AMPHIBIANS SURVIAL ALLIANCE, the planetary amphibians and wetlands conservation network, their excellent nature photography media, books, expert data, and their interactive multimedia, citizen science and observation platforms www.amphibians.org, www.inaturalist.org, and others. This is ALL scientists, nature centres etc. working in this field on Planet Earth - it's almost too much to grasp, and their communications captain is all fired up for cooperation on all ends to connect with the young generation to save the planet. We are working on this this week. Avalon is editor of their global Frog Log magazine JUNIOR edition. Next month, I am contributing a piece about YL, youth leadership, the cardgame, the frog game call. And all this is linking to YL and all of us.
So, please Hi5 us! This is really big!
TAKE ACTION - PACKS provide high quality resources, information, tools, and action tips for joining our HeroInes initiatives, and replicating their solutions at home and abroad. They are excellent tools for activists and educators, and used by our YL Warriors community.
Then, there's the POSTERS Like the card games, they appear in 15 languages. They make excellent > Teaching Tools and > Exhibits Our first pioneer YL WARRIOR CLAN in Bangalore, India, is setting up an Exhibit RIGHT NOW, for Water Week, in their very active International School. Christine and her friends are well experienced with fundraisers of all sorts, and are totally fired up about the opportunities popping up with YL - already, they are exploring replication of cassandra's Turn Grease into Biofuels project, PhilanthroParties and others, EVERY MONTH! As true YL Warriors!
POSTER SET 44 posters of the HeroInes equip users to reach, inspire and involve their class, communities and the public. They make excellent Teaching Tools, with story, QR codes and links. A single homework of research and presentation can inspire a class to follow up with an Exhibit, reaching their entire school community.
Speaking of Warriors and Clans... that's the emerging YL Action Community. You haven't seen much of it, yet, but it's meant to be especially for STUDENT CLUBS around the globe, to take 3 Actions every month. > a fundraiser > a quest (one of your initiatives, or an adult one) > a social experiment (such as 2-4 Vegan Weeks) THIS IS CHANGE GENERATION RISING and you bet it is going to take of big time! It is officially starting for the NEXT school year and I will inform you more in the near future, since this is a major vessel to carry your message and connect your initiatives with people WHO MAKE CHANGEMAKING THEIR LIFESTYLE.
Take Action with grand changemakers of our time. YL Community members can gain official YL Warrior status. They take 3 monthly missions, earn credits and cend levels, like in an adventure game, but with real world-changing impacts! The game thus is an entry door to a groundbreaking Youth Leadership selfLearning Program, and student club curriculum.
That's all for now. I have already taken up a lot of your precious time, but it is suuuper good stuff, WE ARE TAKING YOUR EXAMPLE AND INITIATIVE GLOBAL, NOW, and if everything goes well, hundreds of thousands of youth with actively contribute and replicate our initiatives. I hope you can BEAR that I am calling you HeroInes all the time in YL media, ... that's simply because all this comes in the playful shape of a Reality Adventure Game. And since awards and media call people heroes, we might as well set the proper definition and benchmark. We all know you are ordinary kids :-) Ordinary Lothlorien and Griffindore kids. So, my dears PLEASE PLEASE join in when I send out the LETTER TO PHILANTHROPIC CLUBS. It will make my day, propel YL forward, and - humbly - make sure I can pay my rent next month, which matters for this undertaking.
The website is worth visiting, really neat, now! www.youth-leader.org
By the way: All YL profits coming in through the cardgame etc serve to advance YL and youth leadership. Most of them go into the YL Flow Fund. The Flow Fund serves to invest in excellent value like > outstanding youth- and adult hero-led initiatives that we colaborate with, > the YL Clans Community (t-shirts, printing support for those in very low income regions) Major promoters to Philanthropic clubs, like our global youth leader networks friend, will be able to nominate projects that shall benefit from the sums that his promotions have generated for the YL Flow Fund. It was his idea, and I really love it. This means that promoters can fully commit to the cause, without hugely enriching themselves, but benefitting by empowering projects and people they love - along YL benchmarks of project quality and win-win benefits, of course. You will learn more about it, and the impacts as funds start flowing. I'll get to you today, hopefully, with the LETTER to Philanthropic Clubs.