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OWN Celebrates 2011
A Message from the Executive Director: As 2011 comes to a close, we want to share the highlights of yet another exceptional and exciting year at OneWorld Now!. All of these exciting activities and developments were possible with SUPPORT from DONORS LIKE YOU! As you consider your year-end giving, we hope you will be inspired to give generously to support our young leaders! Your donations make our innovative program of language, leadership and study abroad possible for these underserved high school students, which often positively shifts the trajectory of their lives. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND GENEROSITY! - Kristin Hayden, Founder/Executive Director
Build diplomatic and economic bridges to China by supporting study abroad
Op Ed by Gary Locke, US Ambassador to China
WE need more Americans studying abroad, particularly in China, and soon.
The U.S. Department of State and the International Institute of Education recently released new numbers on global study abroad in the annual Open Doors Report. Once again, China tops the list of countries sending students to study in the U.S. In the last academic year, the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S. grew by 23 percent to a population of nearly 158,000 students. American enrollments in China grew as well, but far more modestly at just under 2 percent, keeping China the fifth-most-popular destination for Americans studying abroad and taking the total population of Americans studying in China to just under 14,000.
Mayor Mike McGinn blogs about OneWorld Now!
Last Tuesday, local non-profit and social venture OneWorld Now! (OWN) organized the Seattle Strong Luncheon to announce Seattle’s partnership with the Obama Administration in the 100,000 Strong Initiative. The initiative aims to strengthen US-China ties and American familiarity with China by diversifying and increasing the number of American students studying abroad in China.
Program helped student turn things around
Jerry Large writes about OWN alumnus Philmon Haile
Philmon Haile has a great future ahead of him, but he needed help seeing his potential. Haile will enter the University of Washington in January with a lot of education behind him already, some of it in China. OneWorld Now! provided a big part of the boost he needed to get started.
News Advisory from the City of Seattle
Mayor Mike McGinn and Former Governor Gary Locke Announce Support for Obama's 100,000 Strong Initiative
SEATTLE- Mayor Mike McGinn, Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools Dr. Susan Enfield, and U.S. Ambassador to China and former Washington State Governor Gary Locke today announced their support for Seattle to be a partner city in President Obama's 100,000 Strong Initiative to diversify and dramatically increase the number of American students studying abroad in China. Seattle joins other major U.S. cities selected by the U.S. State Department to lead this initiative because of its important role in U.S.-China relations.
Kristin Hayden, Changemaker
Global Washington calls Kristin Hayden a "changemaker"
OneWorld Now! Founder and Executive Director Kristin Hayden appears in Global Washingon's September 2011 newsletter featured as a "changemaker". Kristin speaks on personal transformation and what keeps her inspired.
Kristin Hayden on transformative experiences, success, thrival, and what really matters
Podcast on the Wise Routes Blog Project
Wise Routes blogs about their recent interview with OWN Executive Director and Founder Kristin Hayden: "Kristin Hayden is really cool. She started One World Now!, an organization with an exclamation point in its title. Why? Because Kristin is exclamation-pointy about creating a world where young people realize their potential to be change makers with a global consicousness. OWN! works with high school aged youth to provide language, leadership, and study abroad experiences that will pop their bubbles, throw them out of their comfort zones, and open their eyes to new places and cultures they never knew existed."
Executive Director Interviewed on Rainmakers.TV
OneWorld Now!'s Founder and Executive Director Kristin Hayden was interviwed by Rainmakes. A rainmaker is a person or an organization who has special qualities to make something happen. A rainmaker is one who donates funds. A rainmaker is also a group that works together to help others overcome a hardship. A rainmaker is someone at the bottom of the economic pyramid who has the inner drive to make change become a reality.
Coming Together at the Seattle Chinese Gardens
In a very short time, the Seattle Chinese Garden has become a focal point for demonstrating our region's deepening friendship and growing relationship with China, bridging and cultivating our two cultures in a tangible, often happenstance way. A snapshot of one day's visit to the Garden illustrates how interconnected Seattle has become with the Garden with China and with all the links in between. Participants in the OneWorld Now! Chinese Summer Language camp went to the gardens on an exciting field trip to experience Chinese culture.
Ashoka Fellow China Visiting Program
OWN's Founder and ED is off to China
Ashoka is happy to announce the return this fall of our "Ashoka Fellow China Visiting Program". This program aims to bring Ashoka fellows with interesting models to visit Chi...
