[Internships] Internships Digest, Vol 5, Issue 2

Fri Jan 13 11:54:12 EST 2012

hi
 iam a South African single mom of 1 daughter,i will like to know if u can
be ble to spornsor my NGO organization with laptop per kid and any possible
things,i will also like to be part of volunteers

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>   1. contact for grant proposals (from US government)?
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>   2. America's Unofficial Ambassadors Initiative - One Laptop Per
>      Child (Christopher Van Hoose)
>   3. America's Unofficial Ambassadors Initiative - One Laptop Per
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> Hello, I'm trying to find who to contact in OLPC regarding a grant proposal
> to USAID for $300,000. I've written it, and now I need to see if OLPC would
> be interested in supporting the application submission.
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> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Kristin Marsh Song
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> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:28:01 -0400
> From: Christopher Van Hoose <christopherv at creativelearning.org>
> To: volunteer at laptop.org, Bill Kruvant <billk at creativelearning.org>
> Cc: internships at laptop.org
> Subject: [Internships] America's Unofficial Ambassadors Initiative -
>        One     Laptop Per Child
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> OLPC Foundation
> Suite 0234
> 222 Third Street
> Cambridge, MA 02142-1158
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> 18 October 2011
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> Dear Sir or Madam:
>
> I hope this message finds you and your organization well.  As leaders of
> organizations dedicated to promoting peace and understanding, I would like
> to further our common goals in a part of the world that is critical to our
> national interest.
>
> In March 2011, Creative Learning launched the America?s Unofficial
> Ambassadors (AUA) initiative, a program dedicated to expanding and
> supporting private American citizens? service in the Muslim World. To
> encourage Americans to volunteer in the Muslim World, and to enable access
> to credible service opportunities, Creative Learning published the AUA
> Directory of Recommended Organizations: a free, online, searchable database
> of organizations for potential volunteers interested in engaging in
> high-impact service in a Muslim-majority country.
>
> The AUA Directory is the premier resource for researching volunteer
> opportunities in the Muslim World. In creating this resource, Creative
> Learning researched more than 1000 organizations and conducted extensive
> interviews with program staff and volunteer alumni. Currently, the AUA
> Directory features descriptive and analytical profiles of 59 leading
> organizations that send or host American volunteers for short-term service
> in a Muslim-majority country. Over the past seven months, nearly 800
> potential volunteers have registered to view the profiles of organizations
> listed on the AUA Directory. By increasing access to safe and credible
> volunteer-sending organizations, Creative Learning aims to encourage over
> 1000 Americans to commit to short term service in the Muslim World by the
> end of 2012.
>
> As we continue to update the AUA Directory with new opportunities, we are
> eager to form additional partnerships with organizations capable of
> accepting and sending a greater number of volunteers into Muslim-majority
> countries in order to build positive people-to-people connections between
> the Muslim World and America.  We believe that due to its amazing work
> across the world, and specifically it's recent inclusion of Mali in its
> internship program, One Laptop Per Child may be eligible for inclusion on
> AUA?s Directory of Recommended Organizations.  I want to let you know that
> one of our Program Officers will be contacting your office in the following
> weeks in hopes of arranging an updated informational interview about your
> foundation.
>
> As a partner with Creative Learning?s America?s Unofficial Ambassadors
> Initiative, we believe that your organization will be able to attract
> additional high-quality volunteers to your programs. Please be assured that
> Creative Learning is not charging any fees for this service. Feel free to
> learn more about our organization at www.creativelearning.org and
> www.unofficialambassadors.org.  Of course, if you have any questions,
> please
> call me directly at (540) 295-0003 <%28540%29%20295-0003>.
>
> As we witness the aftershocks of the Arab Spring and a wave of change
> sweeping across the Muslim World, it is important that we strive to build
> stronger personal relationships and with members of those countries to help
> them meet their pressing human development challenges. In doing so,
> volunteers serve as unofficial American ambassadors and build positive
> perceptions of America with members of those countries where we are so
> often
> negatively perceived. It is our sincere hope that with every volunteer our
> organizations send overseas, we are working to strengthen the capacities of
> Muslim World citizens, as well as the positive ties that link them to
> America.
>
> Peace,
>
> Bill Kruvant
> President, Creative Learning
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:59:12 -0500
> From: Christopher Van Hoose <christopherv at creativelearning.org>
> To: volunteer at laptop.org, internships at laptop.org
> Subject: [Internships] America's Unofficial Ambassadors Initiative -
>        One     Laptop Per Child
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> OLPC Foundation
> Suite 0234
> 222 Third Street
> Cambridge, MA 02142-1158
>
> 10 November 2011
>
> Dear Sir or Madam:
>
> My name is Christopher Van Hoose, and I am one of the Program Officers for
> the America's Unofficial Ambassadors Initiative.  I was hoping that you'd
> had a chance to read through the informational e-mail our organization sent
> you a few weeks past about our Directory of Recommended Organizations that
> send or host American volunteers in Muslim-majority countries.  I'd like to
> discuss your organization and its possible inclusion in our online
> directory with you or another member of your organization, at any time you
> feel would be appropriate.  Please feel free to forward this e-mail to
> whomever in your organization might be most appropriate, reply to this
> e-mail directly, or call me at the number below.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher Van Hoose
>
> America's Unofficial Ambassadors
> *Building Peace Through Service in the Muslim World *
> www.unofficialambassadors.org <http://www.unofficialambassadors.orgm/>
> 202-551-9059
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