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Dispatch 10.7
March 2011
Badges and Swahili
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A Few Good Members!
The TIG Member Advisory Committee is being created to guide us in creating an engaging platform, boosting member participation and encouraging members to use TIG as a networking hub. The Committee will serve as a source of expertise, insight, and innovation from TakingITGlobal members, and will provide suggestions and input to help direct TIG towards enhancing member engagement, member experience and local/regional community integration. If you are an active member of your local and online communities, and would like to further your involvement with TakingITGlobal, we encourage you to submit an application. Would you like to volunteer with TIG in other capacities? Check out our current online volunteer listings for more of our available positions, and apply today!
Help Better The World!
Better The World is collaborating with TakingITGlobal to help us raise funds simply by running socially responsible advertising in a sidebar of your web browser. After installing a simple plug-in, you'll be able to track your contributions towards TakingITGlobal's fundraising goals. Completely free of charge, you can effortlessly help support TIG just by keeping it open! Join Better The World and contribute to TakingITGlobal!
Ensuring Racial Tolerance
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bell hooks, a writer and anti-racist activist, speaking on oppression, once said "Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community." Current events have demonstrated that people posses the courage and power to push for change, to fight for freedom; to challenge prevalent social norms and to find a connection with each other that stretches across race, class, gender, and other threads that make up the fabric of our varying identities, contained within the communities we live in. In honor of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21st, TakingITGlobal will be holding an art contest in our Global Gallery. To help guide your creativity, keep this quote from bell hooks in mind: "The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it's to imagine what is possible." |
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February 28th marked a very special day for the TIG online community: we celebrated the launch of our Swahili language platform, which marked the 13th language platform on the TIG website. This is huge! Swahili is one of the largest Bantu (e.g. native to Africa) languages out there with an estimated 80 million speakers and growing fast. Since 2009, a total of 28 volunteers have worked to translate tens of thousands of words and phrases - much of the content on our site - to bring TIG's resources and online community to Swahili speakers. Learn more about some of the Swahili team members, including their favourite Swahili word! |
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Launching Badges and a new My TIG! |
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Many months in the making, TakingITGlobal is thrilled to launch Badges! We want to reward and recognize all the TakingITGlobal members that actively participate and make a positive contribution in the world, globally and locally. Earn Badges on your own or issue a challenge to your friends! See who can win a badge first! TIG is also excited to share the re-launch of an improved My TIG! Our team has worked hard to test and implement exciting improvements, many of them in response to member feedback and requests. Head to My TIG to see the changes for yourself! Keep your friends up-to-date by linking your Twitter Updates with your My TIG Status. Replace your old Avatar with a higher-quality Avatar, which enters you into a draw to win an Amazon Gift Card! Also, don't forget to share your global travels with all your TIG friends by checking out My Travels. |
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DeforestACTION Live Web Event: Connecting Students With Orangutans In The Wilds Of Borneo! |
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Students and teachers from around the world recently participated in a live web event that took them deep into the jungles of Indonesia. On March 3rd, two DeforestACTION web events connected 12,000 participants from 29 countries to the organgutans of Borneo, Dr. Willie Smits (a world renowned conservationist), Cathy Henkel (director of the upcoming DeforestACTION 3D movie), and the King of Java! They learned more about the DeforestACTION project, the problem of deforestation in the Asia Pacific region and its impact on organgutan populations, and what youth can do to fight deforestation. If you missed the live webinars, you can watch the archives here. |
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Join the Tread Lightly Educator Challenge for a chance to win $1,000! |
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TakingITGlobal and the Staples Foundation for Learning want to recognize the commitment and passion of educators who are engaging youth in learning about climate change. Take advantage of the free tools and resources available through the Tread Lightly program, and share your story of how you used them to support youth environmental stewardship. Enter by May 20 for a chance to win great prizes, including $1,000 US to invest in your classroom! |
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Your interest, support and involvement with TakingITGlobal helps our community grow and encourages more young people to become inspired, informed and involved everyday! By being a member of TakingITGlobal, you are part of a community that is over 350,000 strong coming from over 250 countries and territories. Thank you for having a vision of positive change. Your work makes a difference!
In friendship,
TakingITGlobal
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