Good day! I am raising $ 50,000 for America's and Europe's finest youth leaders to go to IYONS, the summit for youth organizations, held in Chennai, India, on 24-6 July 2015. IYONS unites changemakers below 35 from 120+ countries to share their model solutions for global challenges. As director of Youth-LeadeR (YL), I bring in the youngest, the spectacular teens, with model solutions replicable by young people everywhere - also at school. As a team, we are bringing world-class action to IYONS, reach to media and schools, even unite our delegates for a 1-week retreat for co-creating a new leadership program geared for schools in 18 languages. We have full support from IYONS, doors are opening on all sides. It's huge! All the kids need to do is to - GET THERE ! I count on you to help them!
Thank you!
CONTENTS
What We Need
3 What We Need 4 Who is Eric? 5 IYONS
AIR TRAVEL
6 N. American Youth Leaders
to Chennai, India, from USA // Canada // Europe
9 European Youth Leaders
free seats or
10 International Youth Leaders
$1,500 per youth / parent, incl. visa
11 Our Contribution to IYONS 12 The Youth-LeadeR Camp 13 Our Program 14 Work-meetings 15 Post-IYONS YL Immersion 16 Funders & Sponsors 18 Mobilize Your School
YOUTH-LEADER CAMP at IYONS $5,000 to fully set up and equip the YL ZONE • interactive exhibit for schools • stands for Youth Leaders
19 Perks
• YL Starter Sets for schools
20 Bank Details & Paypal
• promotional media and merchandise
21 Follow-up in Your City 22 Fundraiser for Babar Ali 23 Appendix: Youth Profiles
WHO IS ERIC? Eric is known as founder of YOUTH-LEADER (YL), a platform uniting dozens of the world's finest teen and adult changemakers for making their role models, stories, solutions and live services available to our global young generation at school in 18 languages. His benchmark: - wildly successful solution - replicable by youth - well documented online - accessible via skype Interweaving best practices at the intersection of positive change, media and education, Eric has designed a game changer for connecting humanity's leading changemaking knowledge into schools, youth taking these solutions to scale, with many benefits for learning culture, people, planet and the young people's personal paths.
Eric always dreamt of uniting the teenage Gandhis of today for amplifying each other's quests and wielding YL to the fullest. When asked to serve as IYONS European & North American representative, he knew the opportunity had come. IYONS in INDIA offers the perfect stage: a disruptive experience, low cost and access to a dynamically shifting subcontinent of one billion people eager for innovation. For full info on YL, view the Portfolio at www.youth-leader.org.
REFERENCES Images & Voices of Hope Award 2012 Round Table for the Implementation of the UNITED NATIONS Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ESD. UNESCO re:imagine learning challenge, Pacemaker Has led YL Teams India & Youth Rising for Peace to win UNITED NATIONS Online Volunteering Awards 2010 & 2012
IYONS Dreamed up by Abdul Ghani, young businessman turned social justice activist, supported by mentors ● Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi ● Former „The People's“ President Dr. Abdul Kalam
IYONS is a world-premiere 'outside the box' event, designed by young positive change enthusiasts open to learn and to include everything that makes sense. This gives us unique opportunity to co-shape the event with our finest contents and methods
We are using this to the fullest! First of all, meet the young people that we ask you to help us fly in.
North American Youth Leaders Impressed by the transformative power of these teenagers, the IYONS board has adapted their schedule to include all nominated North American Youth Leaders in the main program, with speech to the global assembly official workshops side events in the Youth Leader Camp Adora Svitak – 'intellectual royalty' / 'smartest kid on the planet' Adora elegantly deconstructs the negative worldview held about youth and our future, and helps us re-define ourselves and our future by our own image and values - to be better adults than former generations.
„The idea is not to turn us into your kind of adults. But into better adults than you have been.“
Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh Martinez – Earth Guardians Xiuh is the voice of his generation – on climate cange, lifestyle and native identity. He has stopped fracking, pesticides, coal ash, sues the government, has chapters on six continents, stars in many films, his Kid Warrior portrait film goes viral, he opens UN summits, jams with spiritual leaders, rocks festivals with Earth Guardians Hip Hop...
Earth Guardians – Concert The genuine spirit of the Change Generation in powerful Hip Hop!
Chloe Maxmin – Divest Harvard / First Here Then Everywhere The driving mind of the world's most prominent divestment campaign, inspiring hundreds of colleges, companies and churches to divest hundreds of billions of dollars from fossil fuels and stigmatizing the industry.
Robyn Hamlyn – Water Warriors 'Blue Community Resolution' This 13 year old has made 27 Canadian cities pass a 3-pronged resolution banning bottled water, keeping it public, making it a human right.
Rhiannon Tomtishen – Project Orangs Girl Scouts Rhiannon and Madi forced the iconic organization to drop conflict palm oil from its famous cookies - holding GS responsible for rainforest destruction, species extinction, human abuses and climate change. GS adopted a policy, followed by ABC Bakers, Kellogg's, and Wilmar, carrier of half the world's palm oil, to establish the trade industry's leading transparency mechanism.
Rachel Parent – Kids Right To Know „Always act from a place of LOVE. If we put our hearts and minds together, we can change our entire nation.“
Canada's face for GMO labelling and proper scientific studies on longterm effects on the health of humans, animals and ecosystems. Her epic tv debate making tv bully Kevin O'Leary switch to pro-GMO labelling has 5+ mio views. She has confronted the Minister of Health with global studies of GMO ag impacts, birth defects through gly-phosate, spoken at Parliament as a guest of honor in support of a GMO-labelling bill.
Cassandra Lin – Turn Grease Into Fuel (T-G-I-F) Cassandra's group of 5th graders introduced recycling of used cooking oils to biofuel. Serving 150 restaurants, she has donated $150,000 of profit to social causes and changed policies. At IYONS, Cassandra now trains youth and adults to do the same!
Avalon Theisen – Conserve it Forward Known as Frog Fairy, citizen scientist, activist and educator on swamps as habitats and water reserves, indicator species, creating urban minihabitats and replacing vivisection with digital alternatives, Avalon is now a lead 'Cowspiracy Secret' Film Ambassador, showing how simple changes to our daily diet can reduce climate change by 50%!
Emma & Julia Mogus – Books With no Bounds
„Banish the words hopeless and impossible from your vocabulary. We CAN create a world of peace and abundance for all!“
Learning about devastating injustice to Aboriginal children (up to five years behind in reading and 30% suicide rate at schools), Emma and Julia started book drives to bring hope, vision, joy and learning. Two years later, they have served 49 communities with 77,000 good books, changed worldview among their generation, reached and involved 30 million people and built healing bridges across historic divides. At IYONS, Emma shows how each of us can replicate the badly needed program in 100 countries.
WHAT A LINE UP ! Help us bring them all into one event, into one space!
as speakers
with several workshops each
The Youth-LeadeR Camp
These Hero/ines are usually the celebrity speaker of an event. They've never shared a stage. Until NOW!
European Youth Leaders Oliwia Borkowska – (POLAND) EU Citizen Campaign for making Ecocide a Crime Erosion of natural resources, ecosystem pollution and collapse naturally lead to loss of inner and outer peace, thus to violent conflict on personal, domestic, communal, national and international levels. Since the 1970's, the UNITED NATIONS envisioned making Ecocide the 5th Crime Against Peace at the International Criminal Court ICC, holding individuals personally accountable, like for genocide. The initiative is gaining momentum on all levels. Several countries have included ecocide in national law, the EU Citizens Initiative is gathering 1 million voices to put it on the EU table. Oliwia will present the simple, powerful legal framework.
Maja Horvat - Solayea (SLOVENIA) Maja is also a „make ecocide a crime“ campaigner, but also represents Solayea, an organization at the intersection of the feminine, holistic approach to life and reponsible leadership.
Laura Kaestele – Gaia University (GERMANY) Laura is a pioneer in inner, communal, global and natural permaculture, with leadership experience in 'Generation Wake Up' Trainings and 'Art of Hosting' large group co-creative collaboration methods.
More European nominations pending
International Youth-Leaders Babar Ali – The Youngest Headmaster in the World (INDIA) At age 9, Babar began teaching peers too poor to attend school what he had learned in the morning. His mission soon evolved into a full-fledged school with adult volunteers, serving 1,000 students in his parents' backyard, many of which completed a high school degree and went on to college. Some are now teachers at his newly built school.
Hassan Saeed – Open Doors Literacy Project (PAKISTAN)
„We are reclaiming our streets and public spaces to be safe and welcoming for girls and women again. This is our home. All of us have the right to feel safe.“
For 100 days, Hassan takes the bus to visit rural villages to teach groups of girls to read and write in the safety of their homes. Even gun threats did not stop him. In just 100 days, the girls' lives change dramatically: they are not married away, read the news, study and open small shops.
Bilsan Ahmad – YOUTH-LEADER Syria (SYRIA) Bilsan changes our worldview about Syria. With a full picture of the sides of conflict, functional parts of the country, vibrant life and thriving youth organizations, everyone fired up to get involved can do so!
Usha Vishwakarma – The Red Brigade Lucknow (INDIA) The famous women self-defense group against sexual assault. Living under open skies in the slums of Lucknow, these coura-geous young rape survivors patrol the streets, save and heal their peers, pressure police to hold rapists and murders accountable and train a generation of girls to protect their lives from sick men. Usha freshens us up with 'live screams, beats and smashes'. Rock'n'roll! You Go, Grrrlz!
Our Contributions to IYONS World-Premiere This is the most powerful crowd of teen changemakers united in one place, ever! It is like a full-scale event in the event!
Each youth has a solution replicable by youth, even and especially at school, as student clubs. Each is personally available, trains, cooperates. The YOUTH LEADER CAMP upgrades IYONS with a powerful speace of learning and interaction. This has value ✔ for IYONS ✔ for interaction with media, schools, changemakers ✔ for the Youth ✔ for Youth-LeadeR ✔ for future YL Events in India, Europe, North America and the world
The Youth LeadeR Camp A large space right next to the main auditorium 12 stands and YL Lounge Exhibit Wall of 48 Youth Leaders Life-sized posters of the YL's at IYONS Babar Ali's 'Home of Joyful Learning' Poster Exhibit Emma's 'Books With no Bounds' Comic Poster Exhibit YL Starter Sets for Schools, petitions and campaigns A rich program Self-guided multimedia exhibition for school classes 30+ workshops and side events Presentations, Interviews, Photoshoots, Films Skype Sessions with hero/ines & YL partner schools View a DRAFT of our program on the next page.
Meetings with Field Partners Long-term value Our presence at IYONS guarantees long-term tangible impact for critical regions with Field Partners determined to include YL programs in their work and spread YL in their country. These work meetings alone justify the travel costs.
Project and Strategic Collaboration ✔ IYONS, for reach into India's education system ✔ Afghanistan's major youth networks ✔ YL Syria, connected nationwide ✔ Indian village education and development ventures with strong ties to EU programs ✔ Nepali relief organizations ✔ Girl and women empowerment School Collaboration on YL Programs ✔ with Loyola College (7,000 students) Media Interviews ✔ with TV programs about hero/ines
YOUTH-LEADER Immersion Week World-Premiere
We unite the Youth Leaders for a full week of full day presentation at famous Loyola College
AFTER IYONS, we spend an extra week
campfire nights, open dialogue, play, friendships
with Youth-LeadeRs The mom's
school presentations & Earth Guardians concert
with Indian changemakers Indian schools Indian youth Indian tv and radio
project visits, eco-cultural program, Auroville city
meeting with Indian youth and changemakers media work, interviews and filming Our goals ✔ share, bond, collaborate under the banner of YL ✔ use YL to the fullest to scale their quests ✔ mobilize their resource, community, user network ➔
co-shape our „Change Generation Rising“ leadership program
✔ kick-off YL and CG Rising India!
World Class Value * At only $1,500 per person * First time meeting, sharing and bonding among America's finest youth leaders with concrete transformational solutions Pre-/post-event national outreach to schools and the IYONs community 3 day major outreach with 15 mega model solutions to a global activist audience with high replication potential
LET'S ACT TOGETHER !
An event IN the event, a model for future collaboration in North America Focal point for „youth“ and „school“ at the IYONS venue Interactive exhibit / learning environment for visiting schools
Help us empower our young generation at to school evoke changes just like us!
Work meetings with major networks
$ 1,500
for your hero/ine
Vivid school presentations for start of nationwide YL India campaign
$ 5,000
for the YOUTH CAMP
+ YL Immersion for co-designing a stellar leadership program for schools globally, in 18 languages
$ 5,000
for the YL IMMERSION
Strong media presence + film team
or any amount that you can contribute
FUNDING DONATIONS SPONSORING Talk to us to best align your help with your focus cause, topic, region, for eventual short- or long-term collaboration and favorite perks.
DONORS Donate any sum to our Fund or unlock travel for your favorite hero/ines!
PARTNER SCHOOLS Send your Hero/ine to IYONS for $ 1,500 Receive exciting perks & a post-IYONS presentation!
PHILANTHR. CLUBS // CITY COUNCILS Fund a Hero/ine of your city, state or focus topic; $1,500 or $3,000 for the accompanying parent
SPONSORS : BECOME OFFICIAL IYONS AIRLINE PARTNER Free seats for our youth YOUTH PARTNER $ 10,000 – 50,000 for our youth travel costs EDUCATION PARTNER $ 5,000 for media sets distributed at IYONS YOUTH LEADER CAMP PARTNER $ 5,000 for media, prints, program YOUTH LEADER IMMERSION PARTNER $ 10,000 for an all incl. week for our 20 people
MOBILIZE YOUR SCHOOL
USE OUR FREE POSTER SET and our videos to inspire students to join in. Present in class, create an exhibit, organize a stand, get your favorite teachers to arrange a school presentation!
$ 1-2 per student sends your city's, state's or country's hero/ine to IYONS to share their example to scale their initiative to make tremendous steps forward Download the media set from our website today
YOUR SCHOOL BENEFITS 1. „Your“ Youth-LeadeR gives you an exciting account of the IYONs EXPERIENCE at school or via Skype 2. We will help equip every class with YL Starter Sets 3. Inspired students / clubs join our global community QUESTIONS? Contact schools@youth-leader.org
PERKS
DONORS Exclusive post-IYONS storytelling video conference. $1,000: YL Skype Session for a school of your choice.
PARTNER SCHOOLS Post-IYONS video conference on our experience. Help to get all classes equipped with YL Starter Sets. Join Change Generation Rising leadership program.
PHILANTHR. CLUBS // CITY COUNCILS Post-IYONS presentation at your venue or via Skype. Option for cooperation to equip and mentor schools. Option to connect with programs that you support.
SPONSORS ✔
your logo in our IYONS publications, website
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exclusive contents for your print, digital media, company newsletter, staff and their families
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your logo on YOUTH LEADER CAMP banner
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options for ✔ personal greeting in our IYONS publications ✔ photoshoots ✔ YL Speaker(s) at your gala event ✔ long-term cooperation
BANK DETAILS PLEASE INDICATE that your contribution is FOR IYONS THE NAME of your favorite hero/ine In case of questions, do not hesitate to contact us. Email funds@youth-leader.org Phone +49 152 18630 760 Skype eric.youth-leader
PAYPAL YL Fund for IYONS: fund@youth-leader.org For Eric's air travel and expenses: eric@jpberlin.de
IN NORTH AMERICA
tax-deductible
Via our IYONS Charity Partner BEGUNAHI Foundation, who use 100% of your donation for flight bookings and visa costs. BANK: Central Minnesota Credit Union BANK ADDRESS: 20 South 4th Avenue East, Melrose, Minnesota,
56352 ABA OR ROUTING NUMBER: 291974204 ACCOUNT HOLDER NAME: Begunahi ACCOUNT NUMBER: 8101060203
IN EUROPE
tax-deductible
via a our IYONS Charity Partner Foerderverein Friedensfestival Berlin e.V. (Peace Festival Berlin); same as above, 100%. ACCOUNT HOLDER: Foerderverein Friedensfestival Berlin e.V.
BANK: Ethikbank ACCOUNT NUMBER: 311 1199 BANK NUMBER: 830 944 95 IBAN: DE26830944950003111199 BIC: GENODEF1ETK
FOLLOW UP Our meeting has direct influence on our work in North America & Europe. Under Eric's guidance, we get to know each other's hearts, solutions, magic and co-design YL's epic youth leadership program „Change Generation Rising“ TEACHERS use our media and „live“ services in units. STUDENT CLUBS take monthly action with us. WE COLLABORATE „live“ via Skype, UN Day webcasts, on social media, at events, summer camps and as local chapters.
Make Youth Leadership part of Learning Culture in your City's Schools ✔ Finance 100 Starter Sets for 100 classrooms (cardgame, 48 hero/ine posters, teaching tools) $ 2,000 Or connect us to potential investors in youth: clubs, sponsors, city marketing... Optionally, contribute expertise and manpower
✔ Mentor / Partner Company Offer project development workshops, in-kind sponsoring, prizes, involve staff to support YL Club campaigns. We can scale this program to all your city's schools, combine it with „live“ events, campaigns, with focus or urgent local issues and opportunities and more. Contact us to make it happen for your city!
Bonus Fundraiser On occasion of IYONS being in INDIA, we invite you to support Babar Ali, youngest headmaster in the world and Rotary World Literacy Hero Award laureate
Babar's story At age 9, Babar started teaching younger peers too poor to attend school what he had learned in the morning. Babar's mission soon evolved into a fullfledged school with adult volunteers, serving 1,000 students in his parents' backyard, many of which completed high school, some went to college, some are now teachers at his newly built school. Read more and view videos at http://bit.ly/1e6fihJ Babar's selfless service has earned him recognition as
Indian of the Year CNN IBN India's Real Hero Rotary World Literacy Hero Award a unit in the English text book
Let's give Babar's school ✔ a library – do a book drive at your school! ✔ laptop computers – used ones are fine! ✔ a (used) projector for films, skype, village cinema, making the school a community centre Contact us to get involved.
APPENDIX The Youth Profiles ADORA SVITAK Multimedia Profile link Pacific Standard Magazine described Adora as one of the "30 Top Thinkers Under 30," going on to call her "an activist for feminism, liberal politics, and youth-oriented causes [...] pretty far up the road to becoming intellectual royalty." She is a 2011 recipient of the National Education Association Foundation's Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education. In 2014, she served as a Youth Advisor to the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC.
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ Multimedia Profile link HBO - "Saving Our Tomorrow" Showtime- "Years of Living Dangerously" PBS - "Statewide Ban on Fracking" HDNET - International TV One Hour Special on Xiuhtezcatl 2013 Presidential Youth Council 2013 Young Indigenous Warriors Award 2013 Indigenous Youth Environmental Activist Award 2012 International Eco Award 2012 Peace Maker of the Year Award
RACHEL PARENT Articles about Rachel link Biography link Multimedia Profile link CANADA • Post City Magazine, Toronto Top 20 Under 20 2014 • Clean50 Summit, Toronto Emerging Leader 2014 • NOW Magazine, Toronto Environmental Heroes 2013 • Elle Quebec Magazine Our Woman of the Year 2013 USA • Three Dot Dash, Global Teen Leader 2015 • Just Label It, Washington, DC Right to Know Champion
AVALON THEISEN Biography link Multimedia Profile link 2014 Humane Student of the Year Award by Animalearn 2014 Summer of Service Award by Youth Service America 2014 Florida Achievement Award by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women 2014 WEDU Be More Inspiring Rising Star Award 2013 SBN International Youth Award 2013 Greening Forward Earth Savers Club Award 2012 Temple Grandin Award Radio Disney Heroes for Change Award (5/13) 2012 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
CASSANDRA LIN Biography link Multimedia Profile link MTV Switch Award Rhode Island School Recycling Club Innovations Award Brower Youth Award President’s Environmental Youth Award NYLC Youth Leadership for ServiceLearning Excellence Award Nickelodeon HALO Award
RHIANNON TOMTISHEN Multimedia Profile link United Nations Forest Heroes Award Brower Youth Award Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes Sea World Environmental Excellency Award Giraffe Hero Commendation
CHLOE MAXMIN Multimedia Profile link Brower Youth Award Gloria Barron Prize Focus feature of the Sundance Channel’s award-winning ecodocumentary, “Big Ideas for a Small Planet,” “Green Hero” by Rolling Stone for her climate activism. Chloe has been featured in The New York Times NPR Bill Moyers Bloomberg Real Time with Bill Maher Chloe writes for The Crimson, The Nation, and other publications.
EMMA & JULIA MOGUS Multimedia Profile link The sisters have been featured on CBC THE NATIONAL, CBC News, CTV Canada AM, Global Television Thunder Bay, TVO KIDS, CHCH TV, City TV, CBC Metro Morning Show, CBC Radio Here and Now and other media. The Helen Keller Fellowship Award (2015, Lions International) The Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award Paul Harris Fellowship (2014, Coburg Rotary Club) Top 20 under 20 Louise Russo W.A.V.E. Youth Award International Diana Award Ontario Heritage Trust’s Young Heritage Leader Award Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Peace Medallion Award TVO KIDS ‘Super Citizen’ Award
BABAR ALI Multimedia Profile link CNN IBN India's Real Hero NDTV ‘Indian of the Year’ Award His story is part of the syllabus for the CBSE 10th standard English textbook, PUC English textbook for Govt. of Karnataka, and also in a curriculum in Luxembourg, Europe. He was featured on Aamir Khan’s TV show Satyamev Jayate in July 2012, and is regularly invited to speak at various conferences and forums all over the world. TED Fellow INK Conference speaker
ROBYN HAMLYN Multimedia Profile link Robyn has not been in the spotlight of official awards, but having convinced 27 cities to pass part or the whole 3-pronged „Blue Community“ Resolution 1) keeping / making water public 2) making water a human right 3) banning bottled water is beyond awards.
THANK YOU !