Social Entrepreneurship

Global Citizen Year's Abby Falik wins Mind Trust Education Entrepreneur Fellowship

Published December 04, 2008 @ 10:05AM PT

The Mind Trust Foundation has just announced its second cohort of winners for their Education Entrepreneur Fellowship, which provides salary and support for innovators pursuing new models of education. The award is to support her work with Global Citizen Year. From their press release

Ms. Abigail Falik was awarded The Mind Trust Fellowship to launch Global Citizen Year (GCY). GCY will engage thousands of diverse young Americans in a transformative "Bridge Year" of global service between high school and college. Falik...is focused on America's urgent need to prepare students for leadership in an increasingly globalized world. To do this, GCY will recruit and train cohorts of high-potential high school students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds as GCY fellows; support fellows through apprenticeships throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America; and build a dynamic network of alumni who remain engaged in global issues during college and beyond. During the "Bridge Year," students will receive intensive leadership and foreign language training, complete six-month international service projects, share their experiences virtually with K-12 classrooms in America, and, during their final month, lead activities about their experience in their home high schools and communities.

Abby submitted an Idea for Change in America that you can read here.

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Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.

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