The NYC chapter of Givology held a fantastic fundraiser in support of More than Me's "I Promise Project".
Here's a letter from Kevin Kim, one of our dedicated chapter members.
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Hello everyone-
A Night of Promise was a great success, and we couldn’t have done it without your help! The evening was action packed. People were tearing up the dance floor all night long to the impeccable beats of DJs Sammy the Lost Boy and Han Dienasty. The More Than Me and Givology networks were chatting up a storm and getting to know one another. The auction was absolutely exciting thanks to our great MC Skip Borghese and the incredible donations from the Borghese family, Oakes family, and Loews Hotels. And there was copious amounts of alcohol flowing throughout the night because of our great sponsors Wodka, Radeberger, and Baccardi.
We are all so glad that everyone had so much fun while contributing to such a great cause! We raised over $21,000 for More Than Me’s I Promise Project, which will help us to fund an after school center in Liberia. Through your ticket purchases and donations we will be able to give young girls a place where they can be mentored and learn vocational skills. More importantly, the center will provide a safe place for the girls to go after their classes.
When we began planning A Night of Promise in early December, I couldn’t have imagined that the event would be as successful as it was. I had only been helping More Than Me for a handful of months and been a member of Givology’s NYC chapter for even less time. While helping to plan A Night of Promise, I have gotten to know both organizations so much better and have been incredibly impressed with the enthusiasm and dedication of the individuals involved. Everyone pitched in where they could and the sum of our work helped to create a really great evening. I’m glad that I got involved and encourage you to do the same.
Thanks again everyone, and a special shout out to our sponsors and volunteers!
Cheers,
Kevin
Here's a letter from Kevin Kim, one of our dedicated chapter members.
*****
Hello everyone-
A Night of Promise was a great success, and we couldn’t have done it without your help! The evening was action packed. People were tearing up the dance floor all night long to the impeccable beats of DJs Sammy the Lost Boy and Han Dienasty. The More Than Me and Givology networks were chatting up a storm and getting to know one another. The auction was absolutely exciting thanks to our great MC Skip Borghese and the incredible donations from the Borghese family, Oakes family, and Loews Hotels. And there was copious amounts of alcohol flowing throughout the night because of our great sponsors Wodka, Radeberger, and Baccardi.
We are all so glad that everyone had so much fun while contributing to such a great cause! We raised over $21,000 for More Than Me’s I Promise Project, which will help us to fund an after school center in Liberia. Through your ticket purchases and donations we will be able to give young girls a place where they can be mentored and learn vocational skills. More importantly, the center will provide a safe place for the girls to go after their classes.
When we began planning A Night of Promise in early December, I couldn’t have imagined that the event would be as successful as it was. I had only been helping More Than Me for a handful of months and been a member of Givology’s NYC chapter for even less time. While helping to plan A Night of Promise, I have gotten to know both organizations so much better and have been incredibly impressed with the enthusiasm and dedication of the individuals involved. Everyone pitched in where they could and the sum of our work helped to create a really great evening. I’m glad that I got involved and encourage you to do the same.
Thanks again everyone, and a special shout out to our sponsors and volunteers!
Cheers,
Kevin
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Happy Holidays from Givology!
Looking back at 2011, we truly appreciate your support in helping us reach so many students and schools across the world. As we celebrate the people who have shaped our lives, we want thank all the volunteers, donors, supporters, partners, and believers who have stayed with us on our journey to make education accessible to all children.
As a 100% volunteer-run organization, we couldn’t have done it without you! May 2012 bring you health, happiness, and discovery.
In celebration of this joyful season, we’ll release a series of inspiring stories of ordinary people who have made an extraordinary impact. No matter who you are and where you’re from – every individual has the opportunity and the power to make a difference in the world. At Givology, we encourage you to make a resolution in 2012 to bring your skills, resources, and ideas to empower and help others. Even if you have just five minutes or one dollar to spare, every little bit of effort aggregates into a powerful movement for social change.
With much love,
The Givology Team
Looking back at 2011, we truly appreciate your support in helping us reach so many students and schools across the world. As we celebrate the people who have shaped our lives, we want thank all the volunteers, donors, supporters, partners, and believers who have stayed with us on our journey to make education accessible to all children.
As a 100% volunteer-run organization, we couldn’t have done it without you! May 2012 bring you health, happiness, and discovery.
In celebration of this joyful season, we’ll release a series of inspiring stories of ordinary people who have made an extraordinary impact. No matter who you are and where you’re from – every individual has the opportunity and the power to make a difference in the world. At Givology, we encourage you to make a resolution in 2012 to bring your skills, resources, and ideas to empower and help others. Even if you have just five minutes or one dollar to spare, every little bit of effort aggregates into a powerful movement for social change.
With much love,
The Givology Team
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We’re incredibly honored to be chosen as See Beautiful’s December 2011 featured non-profit! For this month, a portion of the profits go to us, so any holiday purchase you make goes towards helping our students and projects! In addition to being beautiful gifts, all products are either handmade, hand-pressed, organic, recycled and/or fair trade. (As for myself, I’m partial to the aluminum cuff bracelet.)
When we first heard about See Beautiful, the mission of the organization really resonated with us, especially since we strongly champion girls’ education and empowerment. As we’re all constantly inundated by advertisements and media portrayals of beauty ought to be, it’s really great that See Beautiful helps girls and women see the beauty they inherently possess. As a movement, See Beautiful hopes to counter-act pop culture to embrace individuality and the beauty of being oneself.
Check out See Beautiful’s website and browse their products!
We decided that in the spirit of See Beautiful’s mission, 100% of the profits that we receive from their sales will go to Kakenya’s School for Excellence. Kakenya endured much hardship to start her own school for girls – to help them find a better life for themselves and discover their own self-worth. In her own words:
My life was set to follow the traditional path of all girls born in the small Maasai village of Enoosaen, Kenya where I grew up. Engaged at the age of 5, I was to be circumcised by the time I became a teenager—an event that would mark the end of my education and the beginning of my preparations for marriage.
But I had a different plan. First, I negotiated with my father. I would willingly agree to be circumcised (a practice known as Female Genital Cutting) only if he would allow me to finish high school. He agreed. Then a few years later I negotiated with the village elders to do what no girl had ever done before: leave my village in southern Kenya to go to college in the United States. I promised that I would use my education to benefit Enoosaen. Showing their support, the entire village collected money to pay for my airfare to the United States.
I received a scholarship to Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Virginia. Once the girl who grew up without electricity, I became the student who wrote papers on international relations and political science on the computers at the university library. In September 2011, I received a Doctorate in Education from the University of Pittsburgh
Throughout my time in the United States, I have engaged in efforts to promote awareness of the issues affecting girls in my community. As the first Youth Advisor to the United Nations Population Fund, I have traveled around the world to speak on the importance of educating girls, particularly as a means to fight the practices of female genital mutilation and child marriage.
Today, I am working to fulfill the promise I made years ago: to return to my village and give back. I am building a girls' school in Enoosaen so that the lives of other young African girls might forever be altered through education, empowerment and leadership. This is my dream.
When we first heard about See Beautiful, the mission of the organization really resonated with us, especially since we strongly champion girls’ education and empowerment. As we’re all constantly inundated by advertisements and media portrayals of beauty ought to be, it’s really great that See Beautiful helps girls and women see the beauty they inherently possess. As a movement, See Beautiful hopes to counter-act pop culture to embrace individuality and the beauty of being oneself.
Check out See Beautiful’s website and browse their products!
We decided that in the spirit of See Beautiful’s mission, 100% of the profits that we receive from their sales will go to Kakenya’s School for Excellence. Kakenya endured much hardship to start her own school for girls – to help them find a better life for themselves and discover their own self-worth. In her own words:
My life was set to follow the traditional path of all girls born in the small Maasai village of Enoosaen, Kenya where I grew up. Engaged at the age of 5, I was to be circumcised by the time I became a teenager—an event that would mark the end of my education and the beginning of my preparations for marriage.
But I had a different plan. First, I negotiated with my father. I would willingly agree to be circumcised (a practice known as Female Genital Cutting) only if he would allow me to finish high school. He agreed. Then a few years later I negotiated with the village elders to do what no girl had ever done before: leave my village in southern Kenya to go to college in the United States. I promised that I would use my education to benefit Enoosaen. Showing their support, the entire village collected money to pay for my airfare to the United States.
I received a scholarship to Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Virginia. Once the girl who grew up without electricity, I became the student who wrote papers on international relations and political science on the computers at the university library. In September 2011, I received a Doctorate in Education from the University of Pittsburgh
Throughout my time in the United States, I have engaged in efforts to promote awareness of the issues affecting girls in my community. As the first Youth Advisor to the United Nations Population Fund, I have traveled around the world to speak on the importance of educating girls, particularly as a means to fight the practices of female genital mutilation and child marriage.
Today, I am working to fulfill the promise I made years ago: to return to my village and give back. I am building a girls' school in Enoosaen so that the lives of other young African girls might forever be altered through education, empowerment and leadership. This is my dream.
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December is just around the corner, and the spirit of goodwill and cheer abounds. Radio stations won’t stop playing Christmas music, while the high street entices shoppers with lavish holiday displays and sales. Some say the holiday season has gotten quite commercial (we won’t open that debate!), but regardless, the meaning of the holiday spirit remains the same. While not quite on the same scale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation, we all find ourselves opening our hearts a little wider and giving a bit more. And what a difference this makes!
To celebrate the holidays, we’re asking you to submit to us stories, photos, youtube videos, reflections, artwork, letters, comics, personal essays – basically whatever comes naturally to you – about what giving means to you. As part of our “spirit of giving” campaign that kicks off this December, your submissions will be posted to our project website at http://www.meaningofgiving.org/, shared with our entire network. We know we have incredible partners, supporters, and volunteers within our Givology family– this is the time to let your own personal story shine through and inspire others!
How this works:
1. “What does giving mean to you?” Take the time to think about this question and answer in a way that comes naturally to you, whether it be a personal essay, a photo, youtube video, comic, artwork, or any other medium
2. Email your submission to joyce.meng@givology.org with your name and a short bio of yourself. Or, mail your submission to the Givology team to the address below.
Givology
3732 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6231
3. Your post will go up on www.meaningofgiving.org, and will be tagged up on Givology’s front page at www.givology.org. We’ll tweet and facebook your submission, as well as aggregate it into that week’s newsletter, to be read and enjoyed by our entire network. We’ll contact you about when your post will be featured so you can share it with your friends.
Why you should participate:
Everyone has a story to share – there’s so much we can learn from each other and especially during this holiday season, we can draw inspiration from heroes all around us. Small acts of kindness can create a movement of change and we want to give thanks and celebrate YOU!
In addition to getting your cause and story featured on our website, each week, we’ll let readers vote for the post that truly inspires them. The weekly winner will receive a special surprise from Givology!
Our intent is to aggregate all submissions into a publishable e-book to be shared among our community, capturing the spirit of volunteerism and giving.
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Dear Givologists,
Happy Thanksgiving! As we pause to give thanks to everyone who has shaped our lives, I want to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude to all of you - the Givology community. Whether you are our partner, volunteer, intern, supporter on facebook/twitter, donor, or an advocate for education, without you, we wouldn't have made it this far, especially as a 100% volunteer driven organization.
As we celebrating Thanksgiving and the spirit of sharing, we are releasing our 2010-2011 Impact Review. I’m very proud to announce our 2010-2011 impact. In our three years of operations, we have raised approximately $220,000 to support over 2,875 students in 23 different countries through 44 grassroots partners. Our organization has 6,000+ supporters on Facebook, Linked-in, and Twitter, 2,440+ registered donors, 11 chapters started at universities, high schools, and various cities, 30 core team members and 90 volunteers globally. We received the Intelius Award for “Best Student-Run Social Enterprise”, were rated a “Top Education Non-profit” by GreatNonprofits, won a significant Google Grant Award, in addition to being recognized by the Kairos Society as an innovative entrepreneurial venture. As we formed new connections through social media, we were extremely pleased to be featured in Nicholas Kristof’s inspiring book Half the Sky, Vivanista, Knowledge@Wharton, Philadelphia Inquirer, MTVAct, among other print and media sources. We've done this while maintaining our core spirit as a 100% volunteer organization.
Click here to download our annual review
These statistics, however, fail to capture all the individual stories that form the heart of Givology. This year, we put together an innovative “Make Your Mark” campaign which touched hundreds of people as we set out on Union Square in New York City to challenge bystanders to think about their own impact on the world. With the funding and awareness that we generate, we’re able to support our grassroots partners. Each of our partners has a unique story to tell, and we’re incredibly proud to highlight the impact they have generated over the year. From financing a poultry farm to sustain free tuition for disadvantaged students in Uganda and buying school uniforms for girls in Mexico, to library construction in rural India and student scholarships and mentoring in Guatemala, we’re dedicated to connecting you – our donor network – with innovative, community-driven projects and education causes. We take our motto, “Learn to Give, Give to Learn” very seriously. Everyone has something to share, whether it is time, resources, and skills, and we appreciate every contribution that you have given us!
None of this would have been possible without your support and belief in us! Even though we have accomplished a lot this year, we're ambitious and eager to set even higher goals for next year.
In conjunction with our annual report, we'll also be holding a global conference call where anyone can dial in to ask us questions, learn more about Givology, and suggest ways for us to improve. Transparency and openness are two core tenets in our mission and we look forward to having you join us on the call (details to be announced soon).
With Best Regards,
Joyce
Happy Thanksgiving! As we pause to give thanks to everyone who has shaped our lives, I want to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude to all of you - the Givology community. Whether you are our partner, volunteer, intern, supporter on facebook/twitter, donor, or an advocate for education, without you, we wouldn't have made it this far, especially as a 100% volunteer driven organization.
As we celebrating Thanksgiving and the spirit of sharing, we are releasing our 2010-2011 Impact Review. I’m very proud to announce our 2010-2011 impact. In our three years of operations, we have raised approximately $220,000 to support over 2,875 students in 23 different countries through 44 grassroots partners. Our organization has 6,000+ supporters on Facebook, Linked-in, and Twitter, 2,440+ registered donors, 11 chapters started at universities, high schools, and various cities, 30 core team members and 90 volunteers globally. We received the Intelius Award for “Best Student-Run Social Enterprise”, were rated a “Top Education Non-profit” by GreatNonprofits, won a significant Google Grant Award, in addition to being recognized by the Kairos Society as an innovative entrepreneurial venture. As we formed new connections through social media, we were extremely pleased to be featured in Nicholas Kristof’s inspiring book Half the Sky, Vivanista, Knowledge@Wharton, Philadelphia Inquirer, MTVAct, among other print and media sources. We've done this while maintaining our core spirit as a 100% volunteer organization.
Click here to download our annual review
These statistics, however, fail to capture all the individual stories that form the heart of Givology. This year, we put together an innovative “Make Your Mark” campaign which touched hundreds of people as we set out on Union Square in New York City to challenge bystanders to think about their own impact on the world. With the funding and awareness that we generate, we’re able to support our grassroots partners. Each of our partners has a unique story to tell, and we’re incredibly proud to highlight the impact they have generated over the year. From financing a poultry farm to sustain free tuition for disadvantaged students in Uganda and buying school uniforms for girls in Mexico, to library construction in rural India and student scholarships and mentoring in Guatemala, we’re dedicated to connecting you – our donor network – with innovative, community-driven projects and education causes. We take our motto, “Learn to Give, Give to Learn” very seriously. Everyone has something to share, whether it is time, resources, and skills, and we appreciate every contribution that you have given us!
None of this would have been possible without your support and belief in us! Even though we have accomplished a lot this year, we're ambitious and eager to set even higher goals for next year.
In conjunction with our annual report, we'll also be holding a global conference call where anyone can dial in to ask us questions, learn more about Givology, and suggest ways for us to improve. Transparency and openness are two core tenets in our mission and we look forward to having you join us on the call (details to be announced soon).
With Best Regards,
Joyce
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