ConferenceWorkshops
Conference Workshop Notes - A recap from the conference. These notes can be used as a guide to advocate about many of the topics covered at the Our Moment Conference. These are also good to read if you you couldn't attend the conference.Workshop session 1
- Campus Group Leadership
- Paige Fern discusses how she took the leadership role in creating her own NGO, Education Without Boundaries, in the last seven months. Christine will talk about different leadership styles and discuss strategic group dynamics as a tactic for effective organizing. - Global Partnership
- Fair Trade, Debt Relief better aid and private-sector involvement are all provide avenues for the Global north to form partnerships with the global south? - Child Mortality
- Children under the age of five require special needs. The innocence of life at this age is never questioned, yet many children still do not have the opportunity to develop healthily. Learn what is necessary to help keep a child alive. - Universal Primary Education
- Education should be for all. As students, we have special resources that are key for forwarding this goal: education, energy, time and dedication. Two student leaders will tell you how they are involving students around the United States to help bring education to children throughout the world. - Poverty and Hunger
- Though food is destroyed every day, people live on less than $2 a day and cannot obtain sufficient nutrients in many countries. Learn about the problems of food distribution, the benefits and obstacles to sustainable local farming, and the realities of humanitarian food distribution.
Workshop session 2
- Gender Equality and Maternal Health
- - Green is the color of Development
- description coming soon. - Morals, Ethics and Human Rights
- Our collective failure to prevent or even respond to genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda suggest that we may not possess ability to reach the Millennium Development Goals. At the beginning of the new millennium, the culture of human rights has become a culture in crisis. - Advocacy and Lobbying
- Hear how to plan successful hill lobby days, call in days, letter signing campaigns for the issue of your choice. - Messaging 101: How to speak to Americans about Ending Global Povery
- This training will introduce the research-based communication advice outlined in the groundbreaking, new U.S. in the World guide (www.usintheworld.org). The training will also offer specific tips on how you can reach out to and activate the “persuadable middle“ of the U.S. public on global development issues.
Workshop session 3
- HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB
- Hear about the situation of AIDS domestically and internationally. Learn about efforts that you can take today to support current legislation that can make a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people's lives. Network with three great DC-centered groups that can offer you volunteer and internship opportunities as well as access to national resources to build an AIDS chapter at your school. - Media Strategies
- Discover the power of communications. GMMB offers a workshop on how to talk about maternal, newborn and child health through the media. Adapt proven communications models and media tactics to create a campus and citywide shout for the Millennium Development Goals, and many other important global health issues. - Interfaith Dialogue and the MDGs
- How does your faith play into the Millennium Development Goals? How about another person's faith? How can people of different work side by side in this struggle to bring opportunities to people all over the world? - Human Trafficking
- Not limited only to women in Eastern Russia and South-Eastern Asia. Learn how the many facets of this slave trade create barriers for people who are trying to reach any number of the Millenium Development Goals in thier own lives. - Town-Hall Meetings: Learn techniques for organizing a town hall meeting on your campus that can bring in diverse groups in your community to discuss global development. The workshops covers everything from fundraising and recruitment of speakers to advertising and linking your event to broader campaigns and issues.