This has been a great year for us, and we’re on track to make 2012 one of our best yet. Check out some recent highlights that you helped make happen below, as well as ways you can get involved.
- Our members debated priorities for US global engagement through over 250 blog posts on our popular website, and our first student journal - The World Insight!
- Our members were also out in full force bringing these conversations to their campuses. For example, our Western Kentucky University chapter campaigned to win fair-trade classification for their campus, and hosted a national fair trade summit. Our Boston College chapter co-sponsored a national summit on nuclear security, and our University of Pittsburgh chapter held a regional summit on the intersection between global health and the environment.
- We also made our voices heard on Capitol Hill, sending student delegations to speak with decision makers about nuclear weapons, US foreign assistance, global health, climate change, and much more.
- We continued to train the next generation of global leaders. Participants in our Global Scholar summer program reported an 86% increase in their understanding of global institutions, a 65% increase in their confidence as leaders and a 50% increase in their comfort taking action around issues they care about. “I am forever changed as a result of Global Scholar,” one of our participants commented. “Events and news that once seemed distant make more sense to me now.”
- And our new campaign team structure really hit the ground running, with thirty-eight young changemakers leading our work on security, global hunger, climate change, global health and the tenth anniversary of 9/11. We stand out in the broader field of youth organizations because we give our student members this tremendous role and voice.
2012 will be a big year for conversations around US global engagement. We need your support to ensure that young people have the power to create a more peaceful, healthy, just and sustainable world. There are lots of ways to get involved. Please consider making a donation of any size to support our work. Join one of our student campaign teams, or apply to be a fellow in one of our programs (most positions are virtual!). Blog for our website. And/or contact us at opportunities@aidemocracy.org with other ideas or skills you’d like to share.
Thank you again for making this network great.
Sending you our very best wishes,
Karen, Patrick, Bill, Khushbu, Vannessa, Bobbi, Ronald and the rest of the AIDemocracy team
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