GIN Mission
To empower young people to collaborate locally, regionally, and globally, in order to create project based solutions for our shared global issues. To recognize and nurture youth empowerment.
GIN Global Ambassador Program (GAP) Vision
The Council of GIN Ambassadors will promote global dialogue, leadership and action through collaboration; empowering students to develop sustainable, socially responsible solutions for their local-global community.
Our network nurtures and mobilizes transgenerational communities of global citizens to build a just and sustainable world. As a global community, it is imperative for us to understand that our shared global issues are no longer an unaddressed threat, but an urgent matter of survival. It is in our SHARED best interest, to recognize and honor ALL of our stakeholders; to continue forward as a global team of active problem solvers.
GIN’s Global Ambassador Program was created to empower young global citizens as community builders; dedicated to creating and developing a supportive global learning community and network of change-makers taking action. The Council of GIN Ambassadors is a strong youth-led branch of the Global Issues Network, a global team of community builders who value honorable leadership, global collaboration, lifelong learning and service. Moreover, they will seek to engage local action in partnership with local school communities in their region; recognizing that their school communities’ have a responsibility to act as epicenters for empathetic change and social justice. The GAP learning community intends to study and deliver honed understandings, tools and models of effective local-global empathetic change that will strengthen community culture, learning, global dialogue, and action.
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Effective Communicator and Team Member |
- Hold a belief in their team as capable with respect and trust, lead from behind.
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- Flexibility, adaptability, and resilience
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- Practice active engagement and listening
- Interest in critical feedback, suggestions for improvement, and collaborative problem-solving
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- Project Management:
- Have prior experience or willingness to learn:
- Time management
- Team Management and Support
- Collaborative project task break-down and delegation
- Design & Systems Thinking
- Encouraging personal strengths and supporting personal challenges
- Communicate clear expectations
- Deliver with professionalism
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Active Global Citizen |
- Passion to create, develop and foster sustainable solutions at a local-global level.
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- Lifelong commitment and drive to learn and grow your knowledge and understanding of self and the world around you.
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Ambassador Prerequisites
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Global Citizenship |
- Accept your global citizenship
- Understand your work as local and your impact as global
- We have global problems that require global solutions
- Global Issues do not follow national agendas
- Global Issues do not have national boundaries
- Take up your role as an empowered community builder dedicated to a just and sustainable world:
- Collaborate and act with empathy alongside your community team
- Community centered sustainable projects
- Value and apply lifelong learning
- Understanding (y)ourself, (y)our community, (y)our surroundings, (y)our world as interconnected
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Share Your Message and Learning |
- Register as a member on the GIN main website
- Contribute, Engage and Interact with GIN main website
- Your GIN Green Resume
- Your GIN Project Team Page
- Your GIN School Page
- GIN social media platforms
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Active Past to Present GIN Participation |
- Ongoing GIN team member for a GIN project
- Have taken part in at least one GIN event prior to applying to the Global Ambassador Program.
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Grade-Level Requirements |
(Or the equivalent to grade 7 or above in educational systems outside of the American system of grade levels) |
Team Work |
- Be prepared to collaborate in teams.
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GIN Advisor |
- Seek out, approach and partner with a GIN Advisor
- Must be an educator that you have a strong relationship with who values the ethos of GIN
- Who is willing to support you as a Global Ambassador
- Advisors will be included as
- Support the GIN Global Ambassador Learning Forum
- A point of contact for GIN
- Called upon to support evaluation of GIN class participant work
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Required Materials
Ambassadors must have access to: (Please understand that we ask that you have access to the following. To be clear you do not have to own the materials listed below but you must be able to gain access to them through your school or personal network.) |
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All Programs |
- Computer
- Internet access (strong connection)
- Google account with email format suggestion (‘first letter of your name’.’last name’ GIN@gmail.com)r.roseGIN@gmail.com
- Skype account (Link with Gmail if possible)
- Photo/video camera for documentation (may be a phone/tablet)
- Social Media account (Facebook, Instagram, and/or Twitter; and Snapchat)
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Exploring Your Identity
Three Weeks |
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Creating Connections Program
Month and Two Weeks (w/ next) |
- Prezi account (Link if with Gmail)
- Video editing tool of your choice (iMovie, Final Cut, etc.)
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GIN Solutions, Tools and Authentic PBL
Month and Two Weeks (w/ previous) |
- GIN Workbook
- Prezi account (Linked with your Gmail account)
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Sharing Your Message
Three Weeks |
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SECOND SEMESTER
Local Conference Program
Month and Two Weeks (w/ previous) |
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Global Mentors Program
Month and Two Weeks (w/ previous) |
- Coding Software/ Website Editor Platform*
- *Only required for those that sign up specifically for the platform-designing add-on in addition to the regular internship
- Video Editing tool for Instructional Videos
- Examples include;
- Final Cut Pro
- iMovie
- Windows Movie Maker
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GAP Course Timeline
Application Due Date: September 23rd, 2016
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UNIT |
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Social Media: Exploring (Y)our Identity |
- Start: September 26, 2016
- End: October 10, 2016
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Creating Connections |
*Both programs run simultaneously
- Start: October 10, 2016
- End: November 21, 2016
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Authentic Project Building and the Study of Creating Change |
Social Media: Sharing (Y)our Message |
- Start: November 21, 2016
- End: December 9, 2016
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FINALS, SAT/ACT AND HOLIDAY BREAK |
Design and Create your own Local Network |
- Start: February 6, 2017
- End: March 20, 2017
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Global Mentors: Empower and Inspire |
- Start: March 20, 2017
- End: May 1, 2017
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Global Ambassador Program Outline & Time Commitment
GAP WEEKLY TIME COMMITMENT |
- Dedicate at least three hours of your time every week to GAP work.
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GAP = TWO YEAR PROGRAM: Global Ambassador Program is a TWO YEAR Time Commitment |
YEAR ONE GAP DESCRIPTION |
Ambassadors intern and follow the Global Ambassador Curriculum
- Introduction and Experience gained in the following programs:
- Understanding (Y)our Identity
- What Kind Of Learner Are You?
- Introduction To Understanding (Y)our Self
- Express (Y)our Self
- Creating Connections
- GIN Education and Professional Development
- Creating Global Dialogue and Action
- Authentic GIN Project Building: the Study of Creating Change
- Studying and Developing Toolkits for Change
- Studying and Evaluation Models for Change
- Analyzing the GIN Project Workbook, GIN Project Canvas and Action Steps
- Sharing (Y)our Message
- Instagram
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Sharing (Y)our Identity
- Engaging Local GIN Community Networks and Partnerships
- GIN Local Network
- School Communities
- GIN Student Council
- GIN Educator Support Council
- GIN Local Events
- Empower & Inspire: The Global Mentor Program (GMP)
- Introduction to the GIN-GMP
- Our Global Mentors
- Professionalism and Cultivating Healthy Connections
- Our Student Leaders
- Inspire and Empower truly Global Citizens
- Basics of Sustainable Change
- The GIN-GMP Instructional Videos
- Video Showcase, Closing Remarks and Feedback
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YEAR TWO GAP DESCRIPTION: |
Upon completion of the Ambassador Program Curriculum:
- Ambassadors will encourage students from their school to apply for the Ambassador Program, take on leadership roles and grows your team
- Mentor and support the GAP applicants through the process
- Ambassadors will propose and facilitate a GIN class at their school
- Youth Led
- Educator Supported
- Ambassadors will support and mentor students with the development of fellow Student GIN Project impact
- Ambassadors will grow the Local GIN Network as
- Active members of the Ambassador Local Student Council
- Outreach GIN program mentors
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Global Ambassador Course Program Partner Descriptions
Social Media Program: Exploring (Y)our Identity & Sharing (Y)our Message
The Social Media Program will benefit the Global Issues Network because it will engage the GIN community, provide ongoing support for students and their projects outside of conferences, and leverage the power of social media when working to solve global issues.
Global Ambassadors: Authentic GIN Project Building and the Study of Creating Change
The Global Ambassador Program was created to empower young global citizens as community builders, dedicated to creating and developing a supportive global learning community and network of change-makers. This learning community comes together on a platform which intends to study and deliver honed understandings, tools and models of effective local-global empathetic change.
GIN Best Practices & Creating Connections Program
The GIN Creating Connections Program will create and provide to the GIN community the materials and best practices necessary to facilitate global action and global dialogue within the GIN community.
GIN Local Networks and Conferences
The GIN Local Network and Conferences will strengthen local ties and provide a stronger sense of GIN community and Culture: ongoing-community-dialogue, collaboration, “passing the torch,” real and sustainable solutions, life-long learning, creating community partners and teams.
Global Mentors Program: Empower & Inspire
The Global Issues Network is an international organization that aims to create empathetic project based solutions to local-global issues. As an organization that encourages change and personal growth, it is our duty to fully empower our students to make the best out of their projects.
Launched in 2016, the program is a platform for students from all around the world have the opportunity to build their network and learn from Experts & Change-Makers in their respective fields. As a GIN-Youth-Directed Program, we will work as a youth led team to connect and collect testimonials and resources provided by professionals that dedicate their lives to solving global issues to young local-global change-makers. Mentors include activists, educators, NGO representatives, diplomats, politicians, professors, scientists, GIN Alumni (students, educators, and school administrators), among others.
Roles, Responsibilities and Objectives of a Global Ambassador
To create, support and partner in empathetic dialogue and action within your own GIN school, city, country and regional school community. |
Start with your school community
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Creating a team of global citizens, from different regions, dedicated to global action, global dialogue, and strengthening our network of change-makers.
GAP Internal Partnership and Collaboration Goals:
- Engage and encourage the exchange of knowledge and learning between network members
- Collaborate to develop content and a platform that engages participants
- GIN guides and toolkits for organizers
- GIN Glossary for Action
- Learn how to build community action and dialogue
- Develop cross-cultural interactions and collaborative local-global action and learning
- Create and engage a network of powerful global changemakers, as well as GIN Alumni, as mentors to GIN students all over the world
Work as a network of Ambassadors teams to engage young community builders that grow and support local-global GIN programming
- Ambassadors will investigate, design, plan, act and evaluate real world issues using best practices.
- Creating a virtual Learning Library for GIN Conference materials, starting with guides and expanding to include any resources needed to facilitate global action and global dialogue within the GIN community
- Sharing innovative solutions and our track record of successful projects
- Working as a network to increase access to student-led initiatives in support of local and global GIN programming.
- Ambassadors create and develop Global Ambassador Program message and identity.
- Create, develop and learn how to share our message, understanding, and action
- on-the-ground-reporting;
- research and analysis;
- film, social media and art;
- honing self-expression
- exploring self-identity with confidence.
- Ambassadors will provide support for GIN organizer teams and participants in local-global settings:
- Structures and Bodies of Youth Led Sustainability and Support
- Ambassador’s direct GIN school community and culture
- Student led
- Educator Supported
- GIN Class
- GIN Student Led Community Project growth, support, development, peer-review and learning
- GIN School Events and whole school engagement
- GIN School Student Council
- GIN School Initiatives publication on main website
- GIN School Educator Support Council
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Growth the GIN Local Network through School Community Partnerships
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- Ambassadors support and develop GIN local school networks, partnerships and events/conference
- GIN Program Outreach Initiatives: to encourage authentic project based learning, community centered empathetic action and dialogue within local school networks:
- GIN Projects and Community Outreach Discussions and Workshops
- GIN School Council
- GIN School Support Educator Support Council
- City wide
- Country wide
- Regionals
- International GIN conference organization
- Empower young individuals to maintain a high-level of impact through project-based solutions for global issues, all through mentorships that allocate resources that lead to success.
- Encourage global dialogue and global action through a global learning community and network of empathetic change-makers exchange of solutions, working together and contributing to each other’s success
- Connect and Network with the world’s most powerful leaders and changemakers and receive mentorship for GIN projects to become just as powerful and sustainable
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Empower Collaborative School Partnerships
Mentor Network & Global Learning Community
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GAP Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
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What is the KPI? |
How we will measure it? |
- Engage and encourage the exchange of knowledge and learning between network members
- Sharing innovative solutions and our track record of successful projects
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By the end of the GAP year, the number of people registered on the GIN website and platform will increase:
- # of Ambassadors will = 40
- # of Ambassador School Members will = 10
- # of Ambassador School Advisors will = 2-4
- # of Ambassador School Administrators = 20
- Total < 74 more GIN Member users
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- Develop cross-cultural interactions and collaborative problem-solving between Ambassadors
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By the end of the GAP year, the number of active posts and meaningful discussions on the GIN forum will increase:
- 0 discussions- Exploring (Y)our Identity
- 5 discussions – Creating Connections
- 4 discussions – Authentic GIN Project Building: the Study of Creating Change
- 4 discussions – Sharing (Y)our Message
- 5 discussions – Empower and Inspire : The Global Mentors Program
- 3 discussions-Engaging Local GIN Community Networks and Partnerships
- Total = 21 < successful discussions
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- Create and engage a network of GIN alumni as mentors to Ambassadors.
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By the end of the GAP year, the number of Ambassadors that become mentors will increase:
- # of Onboard GIN Ambassadors = 20
- # of Onboard GIN Alumni= 15
- # of Student-Groups receiving mentorship = 30+
- # of Permanent Interns in the GMP = 10
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- Ambassadors will investigate, design, plan, act and evaluate real world issues using best practices.
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By the end of the GAP year, the number of project descriptions uploaded to the GIN Project Library will increase:
- # of Projects Uploaded in GIN Library as Resources = 40
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- Create, develop and learn how to share our message, understanding, and action
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By the end of the GAP year, the GIN Glossary, GIN Solutions Toolkit and GIN Social Media Posts are all uploaded and visible on the media and GIN website.
- Published Workbooks = 40
- Increase GIN Conference Participation by 20% of the previous years school GIN team attendance
- Increase Social Media
- # of GIN Global Ambassador Posts on Official GIN Accounts > 30
- # of Sharing Their Message Posts on Official GIN Twitter Account > 40
- # of Sharing Their Message Posts on Official GIN Instagram Account> 40
- # of Sharing Their Message Posts on Official GIN Facebook Page > 40
- # of Exploring Their Identity Posts on Official GIN Accounts > 40
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- Ambassadors will provide support for GIN organizer teams and participants in local-global settings
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By the end of the GAP year, the number of local GIN school events and new joining schools will increase:
- Outreach Workshop School Assembly= 20
- # of Local Network Councils started and maintained planned > 20 during the year
- # of Local Conferences planned > 20 for the following year
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