The document summarizes the mission and model of Partnerships for Global Learning, an organization seeking to prepare young Americans for global leadership through a "Global Citizen Year." The organization aims to address Americans' lack of global awareness and experience abroad by creating a pipeline for high school graduates to spend a gap year developing knowledge and skills for tackling global challenges like poverty through international service. The model involves youth obtaining passports and health certifications, learning a second language while contributing to host communities abroad, and measuring impacts like increased social and global engagement upon their return. The potential vision is for the idea of a gap year of global service to become an expected step for all American high school graduates.

1. Building a new generation of Americans who
will lead the fight against global poverty.
Partnerships for Global Learning:
July 10, 2009
Abby Falik, Founder & CEO

3. The Need
Most young Americans are unprepared for effective
leadership in our globalized world
• 90% can’t find Afghanistan on a map of Asia
• 74% believe English is the most commonly spoken
language in the world
• 1/3 of US students believe that the US accounts for 30% of
the world’s population
• 73% of Americans, and over 50% of Congressional
Leaders DO NOT have a passport

4. Opportunities for international travel and
exchange are small scale & expensive
Less than 1% of Americans will ever meet
any of the nearly 3 billion people around
the world who still struggle to survive on
less than $3 / day.

5. Our Solution

6. Vision & Mission
VISION MISSION
We envision a world in which a Our mission is to prepare a
“Global Citizen Year” becomes an pipeline of new American
integral – and expected – step for leaders to provide innovative
American high school graduates and effective leadership to
from all backgrounds. Future overcome the global challenges
generations of Americans will of the 21st century.
better understand their
responsibilities as global citizens,
and will act with conviction and
conscience to create a more
prosperous, peaceful, and
sustainable world.

7. The Model

8. Creating Impact
 Obtain a Passport Knowledge  Leading positive social
 Global Systems change across various fields
 Register to vote  Root causes of poverty &
sustainable development  Contributing money & time
Skills (volunteering and civic
 Obtain First Aid
Certification  Proficiency in second language
engagement)
 Leadership & entrepreneurship
 Learn to fundraise &  Financial proficiency
 Engaging others in learning
identify new community and action – creating a ripple
 Project management &
resources effect in their family, high
assessment school and college
 Problem solving & critical communities
thinking
Attitudes/Values
 Respect for diversity
 Passion for learning
 Clearer sense of self
 Empathy
Measurement: Baseline surveys; Ongoing assessments Global/Social Engagement
Index

9. Imagine the Potential
 Every American who graduates from high school will
consider – and have access to – a “bridge year”
opportunity
 20,000 GCY alumni will speak an additional language
and will bring global insight and conviction to leadership
across all sectors
 10,000 host communities across Asia, Africa, and Latin
America will have direct exposure to the empathy and
idealism which characterize America’s “Millennial
Generation”
 5,000 development projects – in education, health, and
the environment – will have increased capacity to serve
their beneficiaries
 250 US colleges will encourage a “global gap year” and
support participation by providing financial aid to low-
income students
 Corporations & government agencies will commit
significant resources to expand opportunities for global
service

10. “If you believe, as I do, that Americans need to become good citizens of the world, then you will hope, as I do, that this
idea of a Global Citizen Year soon captures the imagination of the rising generation.”
Harris Wofford, Former US Senator

11. Join Us!
1. Spread the word to rising seniors
(applications open in Fall 2009)
• Sign up to Follow the Fellows at
www.globalcitizenyear.org
• Contact info@globalcitizenyear.org with
questions about getting involved