Before our opening keynote panel session on Friday, view the live demonstrations of some incredible pieces of technology that young adults have created to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Meanwhile, join a networking session that will facilitate the creation of new friendships and partnerships. Meet other students working on all different types of projects or who are in search of a project to apply their passions to. All while enjoying over 500 cupcakes provided by our friends, Zibble.
Judges:
Dr. William Tiga Tita, Lecturer, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, College of Business, Northeastern University
Jessica Huang, Development Lab Instructor, MIT Paul Ellingstad, Partnership and Program Development Director, HP Sustainability and Social Innovation, HP
Edwin Guarin, Senior Academic Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
Richard Harris, Assistant Dean, College of Engineering, Northeastern University
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Developing a Pitch
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No matter what your organization focuses on, personnel and resources are impossible to secure without a strong pitch. Learn all the elements that go into advertising your efforts, from mastering brevity and clarity, to preparing for your audience, and finally the critical follow-up period after a pitch.
Speakers: Alex Wirth, Chair, Youth Working Group, UNESCO & Founder, Youth Creating Action Network Ken Patterson, RESULTS
How to Use Social Media Effectively
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So your group has a Facebook, Twitter, and website; but do these tools really make a difference? What role does social media play in development work? Learn how to maximize your social media smartly, from building a successful hashtag to drumming up support for your event.
Speakers: Kate Otto, Author of Everyday Ambassador: How to Be a Global Citizen in a Digital World & Info. and Comm. Technology for Health Consultant, World Bank
Community Partnerships
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One of the Millennium Campus Network’s top priorities is to help students leaders realize they do not operate in a vacuum. Leveraging existing connections and resources can save time and energy, as well as advance an objective far more quickly than by starting at square one. This workshop will help students identify, reach out to, and maintain relationships with community leaders.
Speakers: Solomon Elorm Allavi, Member, Youth Advisory Group, Global Youth Innovation Network Abigail Simmons, Communications Assistant for Phelps Stokes Tiburce Chaffa, Ambassador, Global Youth Innovation Network Darline Symphonie, Ambassador, Global Youth Innovation Network
Logic Models and Theories of Change
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Social change agents can use theories of change and logic models to maximize their potential to achieve impact and hold themselves accountable for meaningful outcomes by mapping out how to get from “need” to “change”. This workshop will demystify the concepts and provide practical guidance for using them effectively.
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Have you ever wondered how to have the biggest impact on policy change without running for office? You can have an important voice in policy debates by raising awareness and engaging students to take action on your campus. This workshop will focus on identifying key constituency groups, building a coalition of like-minded supporters on your campus; and leveraging support to create political will and affect policy change.
Speakers: Brian Callahan, Advocacy and Outreach Manager, Global Campaign for Education
Sustainable Leadership
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Student organizations most commonly fail not from an absence of dedication or creative resources, but from a lack of sustainable leadership. A few passionate friends may successfully start a new organization; but what happens in four years when they have graduated? This workshop features student organizations that have continued – and prospered – long after the founding members’ graduations.
Speakers:
David Meyers, Co-founder of the Village Zero Project
Mobilizing a Movement Through Personal Narrative
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Can you tell me your story? Not just a rundown of your resume or where you grew up; I want you to share with me the story of how you became passionately invested in a cause. One approach is in telling one’s Story of Self, a thoughtful process that involves a lot more heart than your standard elevator pitch. A theory devised by Marshall Ganz from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and implemented in Obama’s 2008 campaign, the Story of Self is an artful technique of storytelling that communicates the moments in your life and the values that you gained which moved you to act. In this workshop, learn how to develop your own engaging Story of Self that will inspire your listeners to action!
Speakers: Leila May Pascual, Director of External Operations, Project Plus One Sarah Van Buren, Director of Internal Operations, Project Plus One
John Abdulla, New Media Strategist, Oxfam America
Local vs. Global Impact: Challenging Assumptions and Reflecting on Lessons Learned
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We will seek to answer some big, enduring questions student leaders in this space are facing. Why do students travel thousands of miles to make an impact when there is need right on campus/down the street? If we really believe that “local leaders must own and champion solutions,” what role does a college student studying in the US have in tackling global poverty? What are some of the best practices that have been learned locally that can be applied globally, and vice versa? The questions we are posing should be difficult to answer; this will be an honest, open dialogue that challenges assumptions and pushes people to think more critically about why, and how, they are engaging in this work.
Moderator: David Burstein, Author of Fast Future: How the Millennials are Shaping Our World & Executive Director of Generation18
Panelists: Maya Cohen, Executive Director, GlobeMed Daniel Cordon, Director of Transitional Employment, Haley House Bakery Café Maggie Dunne, President, Lakota Pine Ridge Children’s Enrichment Project Ltd & Grand Prize Winner, Glamour Magazine’s Top 10 College Women Pape Samb, CEO, Phelps Stokes
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Come grab free coffee and breakfast and get ready for the opening plenary session on Saturday. This breakfast will feature a toast and a few special coinciding events.
During this opening keynote session, expect to hear from some of the conference’s biggest names on a wide variety of messages they wish to present to today’s youth.
Speakers: Paul O’Brien, Vice-President for Policy and Campaigns, Oxfam America Sam Vaghar, Executive Director, Millennium Campus Network Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Microsoft Citizenship and Public Affairs Paul Ellingstad, Partnership and Program Development Director, HP Sustainability and Social Innovation, HP Paul Farmer, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Partners in Health Earl Yates, Associate Director/Volunteer Recruitment and Selection, Peace Corps Steve Radelet, Chief Economist, USAID
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The Impact of Women in Leadership Roles
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Starting at the local level, moving towards the workforce, and culminating at the government level, what role do women leaders play in the world of development? The millennium has brought with it a wealth of research and proof that women have an essential and influential role in the international community, yet they still remain vastly underrepresented in powerful positions. Why?
This panel will focus first on the unique challenges facing women in the climb up the social and economic ladder. Are they structural challenges, societal pressures to “have it all,” or individual struggles?
Speaking from their own experience and those of the women they have worked with, panelists will attempt to unveil the new glass ceiling facing women in the development industry, and their suggestions on how to break it.
Second, the panel will address why female leadership is necessary in development and governance internationally. What would development look like without women? What do they bring to the table? What lies untapped from this half of the world’s population? Can you envision a world with majority or equal female leadership in the near future?
Finally to bring the discussion back to the upcoming generation of development workers in attendance, the panel will address the question of what young men and women in particular can do to address these challenges. What can this generation do differently? How can we turn the tide of this frustrating trend internationally?
It is not often that women in powerful positions get together and have an honest discussion about unique challenges they faced and are still facing in the aims of aiding the upcoming generations. This is the discussion we hope to have.
Panelists:
Tara AbrahamsDeputy Director, 10×10: Educate Girls, Change the World
Randi Davis, Gender Team/Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP
Sarah Kalloch, Coordinator, Oxfam’s Sisters on the Planet Ambassador Program
Environmental Tensions: The Pressures Developing Countries Face Surrounding Climate Change
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Climate change has always been a contentious and politically-charged issue in the global community. This panel will delve into the players in the environmental debate that are not given enough of a voice: the developing countries. How can the international community place emission standards on these countries, when industrialization is often the best way to bring them out of poverty? This panel will explore the struggles of developing countries to modernize within the predetermined standards created by developed countries. Furthermore, it will address a fundamental challenge to policy changes regarding the environment, which is the conflict between short term needs versus long term sustainability.
Moderator:
Paul Beaudette, Climate Reality Project
Panelists:
Craig Altemose, Executive Director, Better Future Project
Raphael Obonyo, UN Habitat’s Youth Advisory Board
Sajed Kamal, Lecturer, Writer, Inventor, Brandeis University
Linda Shi, Doctoral Candidate in Urban Planning, MIT
The Origins of a Social Movement: Online “Click-tivism” vs. the Formation of Deep Community
Description:
What is a social movement? The conversation will open with an exploration of trajectory of social movements (abolition of slavery, human rights campaign, anti-apartheid, civil rights, farm workers, environmental, global health equity, etc.). In the context of the Millennium Campus Conference, what does a movement for global poverty alleviate look like?
This panel will explore two main avenues of building a social movement: formation of intentional community and online mass mobilization. Building community among individuals with similar values and organizing around a central mission is a slow process that requires time. On-line movements call large networks to action to mobilize around a specific cause, but sometimes these movements lose the interest of members after an initial action is taken. Although tensions exist, how can a movement be built upon both principles? How can a movement utilize aspects of both of these methods?
Another key theme of this panel will be exploring social capital and social media. Intentional community and strong networks are important to today’s youth in an effort to seek ways to engage with the global community. Tools exist to connect people from around the world to shape these communities and strengthen contemporary movements. How can movements effectively utilize both social capital and social media tools to build supporters, strengthen networks, and sustain the movement?
Panelists are asked to share their perspectives on these topics and engage in a conversation on contemporary social movements. Students hope to gain an understanding of the best practices of building a social movement.
Moderator:
Andrew Slack, Executive Director, Harry Potter Alliance
Panelists: Jon Shaffer, Community Engagement Coordinator, Partners In Health
Liriel Higa, Social Media Strategist, Half The Sky Movement
Ellie Zeitlin, Member Engagement, DoSomething.org
Dyanna Jaye, Invisible Children
Roadblocks to Providing Care
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Disease is intimately connected to poverty, but too often health is a right that is denied to vulnerable populations. How can this cycle of poverty and disease be broken? What are the implications of viewing health through a human rights lens on both the policy and community level?
First, drawing from their experience both on and off the field, panelists will assess the factors that are currently depriving the most at-risk populations of basic health services. What structural factors are allowing the cycles of poverty and disease to persist in particular populations? What factors are preventing development from saving lives when it has the capability to do so? Is it a problem of access, distribution, quality or cost? Or another X factor?
Second, the panel will address why the human rights base approach is important in the field of international health. What does this approach bring to the table that others do not? Why is it important for this generation in particular? What are the benefits or shortfalls of this approach? How does it impact health on a both micro and macro scale?
Finally, the discussion will close with a focus on how this generation can improve and eradicate existing roadblocks to care. How can young men and women this field effectively address these problems in their various roles? As doctors, aid workers etc.?
It is our aim that panelists will draw upon both their personal experiences and their technical knowledge to highlight the connection between health and human rights.
Panelists: Joia Mukherjee, Chief Medical Officer, Partners in Health Mark Arnoldy, Executive Director, Nyaya Health Brian Concannon, Director, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
Raj Panjabi, Founder and Executive Director, Tiyatien Health
Cross-Sector Collaboration
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Cross-sector collaboration strengthens the impact of development work. This panel seeks to illustrate the consequences of linking sectors together. How can business focused on social good collaborate with existing structures? What is the most effective means for governments, nonprofits, and communities to work together?
Moderator: Annie Ryu, Founder and CEO of Global Village Fruits, Inc & 2012 Winner, Glamour Magazine’s Top 10 College Women
Panelists:
Professor Shaughnessy, Founder and Executive Director, Northeastern University Social Enterprise Institute
Vanessa Kerry, Founder, Global Health Service Crops Charlie Rose, Senior Vice-President and Dean, City Year
Ramu Damodaran, Deputy Director for Partnerships and Public Engagement, Outreach Division, Department of Public Information, United Nations
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Making the Ask: Building Donor Relationships
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Wouldn’t it be awesome if all the money we need to get our ideas off the ground fell right into our lap? For most of us, it won’t, and that’s why we’ll explore the ins and outs of building great relationships in an effort to bring your ideas for social good the attention and funding they deserve.
Speakers: George Srour, Founder & Chief Dreamer, Building Tomorrow
How to Make a Career of Global Service
Interest and passion are great first steps to work towards improving the world, but how can that passion be transformed into a career? Discover the endless ways to make a living while doing meaningful, philanthropic work.
Speakers: Nancy Brady, Founding Member, Young Ambassadors For Opportunity Paul Ellingstad, Partnership and Program Development Director, HP Sustainability and Social Innovation, HP
Effective Recruiting and Retaining Members
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College students are overwhelmed with an incredible amount of options for on campus involvement. And while you may have dozens of students sign up for your email list in September, how do you keep them coming to meetings in March? This workshop examines methods for helping your organization stand out and retain members, from that first activities fair all the way to the end-of-year elections.
Speakers: Taruna Sadhoo, Program Officer & Volunteer and Community Partnerships, U.S. Fund for UNICEF Leigh Forbush, Global Citizenship Fellow & U.S. Fund for UNICEF
Creating Effective Programming
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How do we design programs that are built to last and make an impact?
Speakers:
Christen Brandt, She’s The First
Need and Opportunity Assessment
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How do identify our chance to make an impact and then how do we understand the need of the community that we think we can help?
Speakers:
Dr. William Tiga Tita, Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Northeastern University
Maximizing My Impact in the World
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Where should I channel my passion? Should I work locally or on the individual level, where I can make deep change in the lives of a few? Or should I work globally or on the policy level to make systemic change, thereby impacting lives of millions? Once I’ve decided, how can I maximize my energy, both to sharpen the effectiveness of my contributions to the cause I care about, and to prevent personal burnout? Take Friday night’s keynote panel discussion “Local vs. Global Impact” and put it into action in YOUR life!
Speakers: Marci McPhee, Associate Director, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University Paul Sukijthamapan ’13, Executive Director, Project Plus One Sarah Van Buren ’13, Director of Internal Operations, Project Plus One
Miriam Wong ’14, Founding Steering Committee Member, ‘DEIS Impact 2012
Advocacy in Development
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Advocacy is an integral part of development work. Learn the most effective techniques to support the issues you are passionate about from non-profit leaders in this field.
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A development project is sustainable only if the community actively participates in all stages. Learn about the role of you, the student, in a development project on the ground. What are the most effective ways to establish community partnerships and ensure sustainability?
Speakers: Ibrahim Diallo, Co-Founder, African Development Coalition
Organizing an E-Board and Board of Directors
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Effective and sustainable leadership is integral to the lasting success of a student group. Finding savvy mentors and honest guides can help any organization avoid common mistakes, make smart choices, forge fruitful networks, and complete successful projects. Learn how to strengthen this commonly overlooked managerial element every successful organization cannot go without.
Speakers:
Choon Woo Ha, BlackRock
Asha Castleberry, International Youth Council
Partnerships and Collaboration
Description
A culture of cooperation is one of the defining and most valuable features of the non-profit sector. Yet a galaxy of advocacy organizations in a cash-strapped economy means that non-profits are competing with each other for funds now more than ever. Returning to cooperation can help organizations stand out to donors, minimize waste, foster innovation, and avoid the “non-profit starvation cycle.”
Speakers:
Ishmael Asante, Two Degrees Bars
John Beahm, Executive Director, Jenzabar Foundation
Identifying Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities
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Ever wonder how a social entrepreneur came up with the idea for his/her venture? Learn how to identify social entrepreneurship opportunities in the world around you, from adopting the right mindset, to gaining an understanding of the complete context, to assessing your concept and commitment. We’ll cover two examples of application of this process; then you’ll get to try out the process with some real world challenges.
Speakers: Annie Ryu, Founder and CEO of Global Village Fruits, Inc & 2012 Winner, Glamour Magazine’s Top 10 College Women
Professor Dennis Shaughnessy, Executive Director, Social Enterprise Institute, Northeastern University
Develop your Entrepreneurial Zone of Genius (EZOG)
Description
We are all unique and have unique talents, when we align our activities with our natural talents great things happen. This workshop will explore, discovering your Entrepreneurial Zone of Genius (EZOG) and what are the barriers to unleashing your full potential. We will also discuss the opportunities and limits of personality testing, the four basic styles and common cross over traits, concluding with how to attract partners and teams around you that complement your talents. Workshop participants should come with their EZOG result from www.myezog.com
Speakers:
Michael Potts, Co-Founder, EZOG & Consultant at Mind Tools & Sustainable Minds
During this closing keynote session, expect to hear from some the final set of the conference’s biggest names on a wide variety of messages they wish to present to today’s youth.
Speakers: Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Microsoft Citizenship and Public Affairs Emilia Pires, Minister of Finance, Timor-Leste
So your group has a Facebook, Twitter, and website; but do these tools really make a difference? What role does social media play in development work? Learn how to maximize your social media smartly, from building a successful hashtag to drumming up support for your event.
Speakers:
Kate Otto, Author of Everyday Ambassador: How to Be a Global Citizen in a Digital World & Info. and Comm. Technology for Health Consultant, World Bank