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Expanding Horizons
Afterschool and Global Literacy
Expanding Horizons makes the case for integrating global literacy—international knowledge, skills, and perspectives—into afterschool and summer programs. (14 min., 36 sec.)
OneWorld Now! Students Immerse Themselves in Arabic and Chinese at Summer Camp
OWN Press Release
OneWorld Now!, the after school global leadership program serving mostly low-income and minority high school youth, is hosting its second annual Mandarin Chinese and Arabic immersion camp at Seattle University for the first three weeks in August. Sixty high school students from all over Seattle have committed to spending their summer to learn these critical foreign languages through an intensive immersion program.
OneWorld Now! Hosts Inner City French Students
OWN Press Release
OneWorld Now!, the after school global leadership program serving mostly low-income and minority high school youth, is hosting a group of seven inner city youth from Paris on October 30th to November 8th, 2008. The French Youth Ambassadors are on a special US Embassy sponsored trip to witness the US Presidential elections and live with local host families in two US host cities (Seattle & San Diego).
Creating Global Leaders
A Profile Of Kristen Hayden
“Fewer than one percent of high school students study abroad and less than three percent of college students do. And just a tiny fraction of those are students of color and/or low-income st...
OneWorld Now! Hosts Second Annual Global Leaders Dinner Series at the Grand Hyatt in Downtown Seattle Featuring Speaker William H. Gates Sr.
OWN Press Release
OneWorld Now!, www.oneworldnow.org, a Seattle-based global leadership program for disadvantaged high school youth, announced today that William H. Gates,co-chair of the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation, will be the keynote speaker for their Global Leaders Dinner Series on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle
Kristin Hayden Inducted into International Ashoka Fellowship
OWN Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC (November 11, 2005) For her groundbreaking work in opening up global opportunities for disadvantaged youth, Kristin Hayden, founder of One World Now!, was one of 14 social entrepreneurs from the United States and Canada inducted into a global fellowship by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public at a special ceremony Monday at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Once elected, Fellows benefit from being part of the Ashoka fellowship for life.
Arabic in the Schools
KPLU's Deborah Wang reports
September 11th exposed the dire shortage of Arabic language translators in the US. Since then, Congress has poured millions of dollars into Arabic programs. But are schools rising to the challenge?...
OWN Featured on "The Power of Voice"
KUOW Chats with Founder and Executive Director Kristin Hayden
NPR KUOW.org talks with OneWorld Now! Founder and Executive Director Kristin Hayden on "The Power of Voice".
OneWorld Now! Hosts 1st Annual College Fair
OWN Press Release
OneWorld Now!, the after school global leadership program for mostly low-income high school youth, is hosting its first annual college fair at the University of Washington this weekend. Twenty-five college and university representatives from around the United States, including Harvard, Princeton and Duke will be coming to the college fair just to meet OneWorld Now! students. OneWorld Now! provides a unique and comprehensive after school global leadership program of world languages (Arabic and Chinese), leadership training, internships, study abroad (Morocco and China) and college preparation to Seattle high school youth.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Grants $150,000 and National Recognition to OWN!
OWN Press Released
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation today announced the recipients of four $150,000 grants to support some of the most innovative programs in America for high-achieving students with financial need. The four programs, which are based in Washington State, California, New York, and Virginia, were chosen following a national call for proposals that drew more than 600 applications from nonprofit organizations in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
