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October
2008
Issue
60
In
This Issue:
• ICP Participates in the ServiceNation
Summit
• ICP Interns
Particpate in Hill Day
Event
• Program
Profile: Summer Peace Camps in
Egypt
• IANYS
News
• Upcoming
Events
• Resources
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ICP Participates in
the ServiceNation Summit
By Jean
Manney, ICP Program
Associate
 As a member of the
Organizing Committee for
ServiceNation, ICP participated in the
ServiceNation Summit in New York City,
September 11-12, 2008. Over 500 leaders
from NGO, universities, foundations,
businesses, and government gathered to
celebrate the
potential of citizen service and to put
forth a policy agenda for the next
presidential
administration on expanding volunteer
opportunities for all Americans as a
means for addressing social challenges.
Susan Stroud, ICP Executive Director,
attended the Summit while Jean Manney,
ICP Program Associate, got a behind-the-scenes
experience as a volunteer for the event.
Read
More>>
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Youth
Service News
Global Youth Experts
Convene in Istanbul
Turkey
- The International Youth Foundation
convened top leaders of
youth-serving organizations, global
companies and governmental
organizations from around the world to
discuss global trends and the
latest advancements in youth development
within the broader context of
a rapidly changing world.
Read
More>>
Youth Bill Tabled in
Namibian Parliament
Namibia -
Namibian Youth,
National Service Sport and Culture Minister
Willem
Konjore has tabled the much-awaited
National Youth Council Bill in
Parliament. The Bill, once
enacted, will see the creation of a
national youth development agency, and
contribute towards the
establishment of a professional youth
development sector.
Read
More>>
Kennedy and Hatch Introduce
New Serve America Act
USA- Senators
Edward Kennedy and Orrin Hatch introduced
a major new national service
bill aimed at recruiting 175,000
Americans to tackle national problems
such as health care, education, energy,
and the environment. Read
More>>
Read the
bill summary
Read the
Serve America Act
South Africa: Project to
Improve Communities, Skill
Youth
South Africa -
The
Masupatsela Youth Pioneer Programme,
which will see youth actively
trying to improve their communities and
the lives of the people around
them while learning skills, is to be
launched next month. The youth
programme aims to develop the youth into
"agents of change" by giving
them the tools to conduct community
service. Read
More>>
Supporting
Capacity-Building for Youth Participation in
Decision-Making
Op-Ed by Anu Pekkonen, CIVICUS
Participatory Governance Programme
Coordinator
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It
is vital
that opportunities are created to foster
greater youth participation in
political processes. Young people in
the global North and South alike
express a sense of alienation from the
political system, manifested in
low voter turnouts among youth
and ageing
membership of political parties. Read
More>>
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ICP
News
Wanted: Spring 2009
Interns
ICP
is now accepting applications for the
Spring 2009 Research &
Communications Internship. Interns are an
integral part of the ICP team
and have the opportunity to perform
sustantive work on ICP projects
while working in the non-profit heart of
Washington, D.C.
ICP Welcomes
Molly Brunkow!
ICP is pleased to announce the
arrival of Molly Brunkow.
Molly
Brunkow is coming to ICP from the Clinton
School of Public Service at the
University of
Arkansas, where she is studying for her
master’s degree. Molly is an
AmeriCorps alumni and an avid
world traveler who will be working on her
capstone project with
ICP.
Join ICP at the 8th
Global Conference!
Preparations for the IANYS
8th Global
Conference on National Youth Service are
continuing at full speed! We have been
busy finalizing agendas, working through
logistics and registering
participants. For registration details
and exciting conference updates, please
visit ICP’s
website. The registration
deadline is October 31st,
so hurry up and register
today!
Seeking
Program and Policy
Contributions
ICP is
looking for program and policy
contributions to our global
database. If you know of a
youth service program or policy that is
not included in the database, please email
info@icicp.org with the program
name and primary contact information. We
appreciate your assistance in helping
us keep this as complete and accurate as
possible.
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ICP
Interns Participate in Voices for National
Service Hill
Day
By Elizabeth Brouwer, ICP
Intern
On
September 24-25, 2008, advocates for
national service from around the
country convened on Washington, D.C.'s
Capitol Hill for the opportunity
to educate and influence Congress about
the need to expand
opportunities for Americans to serve
their country. Two of ICP's Fall
2008 interns, Elizabeth Brouwer and
Natalya Twohill, were fortunate
enough to participate in this event. Read
More>>
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Featured
Program: Summer Peace
Camps
By Natalya
Twohill, ICP Intern
The Suzanne
Mubarak Women's International Peace
Movement (SMWIPM) launched its pilot, "Summer
Peace Camps,"
July 26th to July 31st, 2008. The Summer
Peace Camps (SPC) are an
interactive, week-long set of programs
convened to empower Egyptian
youth in seeing school as a space for
active knowledge seeking and for
creating particapatory learning
environments.
Read
More>>
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IANYS
News
The
registration deadline for the 8th Global
Conference is fast approaching! Register by 31
October to reserve your place!
Click here to register for the
conference
IANYS is
excited to announce that Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia and
Africa's first elected female head of
state, will be speaking at the 8th Global
Conference via a pre-recorded video
message.
ICP is
also pleased to announce that Kumi
Naidoo, the
Secretary General of CIVICUS: World
Alliance for Citizen Participation, is a
confirmed keynote speaker for the 8th
Global Conference on National
Youth Service.
The preliminary conference
agenda has been updated!
View
a preliminary conference
agenda
In addition to the
conference, IANYS is offering an optional
pre-conference
session on national youth service policy
and program development on November
19th. Read
More>>
E-mail ianys@icicp.org with
questions.
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October 13-14, 2008 - Tadamunn:
Towards Civic Engagement in Arab
Education - Cairo, Egypt
October
16-18
– Teens For Planet
Earth Leadership
Institute –
Bronx Zoo, NYC
October 16-18 -
2008
National Conference on
Disability Inclusion and National
Service - Alexandria, VA
October
21- 24 – Global
Innovation
Forum for Education and Development –
Yerevan, Armenia
October
26-28
- Eighth International
Research Conference on Service-Learning
and Community Engagement - New Orleans,
LA
October
26-28 - Youth Service
Institute 2008: Across the
Street, Around the World – Orlando, FL
October 28-November
5,
2008 - 6th
Asian Youth Forum International Summit -
Tokyo, Japan
November 3-8
- Regional
Youth
Training in Conflict, Peace, Development
and Environment,
Zimbabwe
November
7-12 – International
Council on National Youth Policy
International Youth Conference – Doha,
Qatar
November 10-13,
2008 - International
African Youth Conference on Environment
and Sustainable Development - Adoumré,
Cameroon; contact younggreens.africa@yahoo.com
for more information
November
12-14
– CSV’s Institute for Advanced Volunteer
Management 2008 Residential – London,
UK; contact iavm@csv.org.uk for more
information
November 12-18 - People
to People International’s
Global Youth Forum - Denver, CO;
November
19-22
- IANYS 8th Global
Conference -
Paris, France
December
3-5 –
Service-Learning:
A
Strategy for Keeping Youth in School Fall
Institute – Philadelphia, PA
December
15-18 – National
Forum on the Role
of Youth and ICTs for Rural
Transformation of Nepal - Syangja,
Nepal
January
4-9 –
International
Youth Leadership
Conference – Prague, Czech
Republic
February
11-13 -
13th
Annual Youth Philanthropy & Service
Workshop
- Cleveland OH
March
17-21 - National
Service-Learning Conference -
Nashville, TN
March
25-27
- 2009
Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and
Civic
Engagement through
Higher
Education - Baton Rouge,
LA
April
24-26 –
Global
Youth
Service Day - Worldwide
June
9-14 – Global
Youth Forum in Mongolia
– Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
June
22-24 -
National
Conference
on Volunteering and Service - San
Francisco, CA
June
25-27 -
Second
International Conference on Service Learning in
Teacher Education - Galway, Ireland
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The Talloires
Network
The Talloires
Network is
pleased to announce that the Wal-Mart
Foundation has made a
$250,000 grant to support the Talloires
Network to strengthen the civic
engagement and social responsibility of
institutions of higher education around
the world."We greatly appreciate this
grant from the Wal-Mart
Foundation. It will support common
global service projects, training
programs, and regional conferences of
Talloires Network members," said Dr.
Lawrence S.Bacow, President of Tufts
University, and Chair of the Talloires
Network Steering Committee. Read
More>>
To
learn more about the latest Talloires Network
news, visit our website.
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Resources
2008
Civic Health Index Poll
The Center for (CIRCLE) designed and
analyzed the 2008 Civic Health Index Poll for
the
National Conference on Citizenship
(NCoC), with input from the NCoC and
its Civic Indicators Working Group. The
survey provides a wealth of
information about Americans’ civic
participation. Citizens are heavily
engaged in political activities during
the 2008 campaign, but many do
not anticipate taking action on issues
raised during the campaign after
the election is over. The survey did,
however, find that Americans
favor policy change to institutionalize
civic engagement, supporting
financing students' tuition in return for
service and expanding service
learning programs. Read More>>
Service-Learning Policies and
Practices: A Research-Based Advocacy
Paper
This paper builds upon existing NCLC
work, and provides a research-based
service-learning framework encompassing
the simultaneous renewal of
five critical components shown to
institutionalize and maximize
service-learning effectiveness: vision
and leadership, curriculum and
assessment, community-school
partnerships, professional development and
continuous improvement. This paper
translates service-learning's
research-based evidence for education
leaders and identifies best
practices and policies.
Read More>>
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a resource for current news and
events related to service, country
information, relevant publications
and internet resources, and in-depth
discussions of different types of
service and the issues that accompany
them.
We welcome feedback
and contributions from our readers. Please
contact info@icicp.org
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