Types of Education and Awareness Events What is the purpose of your event? Education One of the most critical goals of Whole Planet Foundation’s Student Outreach Program is to educate students and empower them to make pro-poor decisions throughout their lives and give them the tools necessary to make a tangible impact toward alleviating poverty worldwide. This is a very powerful message to relay, and events aimed at education are a great way to help students realize that they can, in fact, make change starting right now. If the goal of your event is education, there are a few resources that can have a lasting effect on young adults on your campus: Host a screening featuring one of compelling documentaries of organizations that support Whole Planet Foundation: Living On One—www.livingonone.org and also available on iTunes Bonsai People—www.bonsaimovie.com To Catch a Dollar—www.tocatchadollar.com Arrange for a Whole Planet Foundation Team Member or Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer to speak about their experiences with microcredit clients across the world to: Your student organization At your event Your classroom Anywhere through Skype Plan a trivia night with rounds dedicated to microfinance, entrepreneurship, Whole Planet Foundation, poverty, cultures across the world, etc. Awareness Alongside education, awareness is a crucial component of this engagement initiative. Awareness may not equip people with hard facts that they can then relay to others, but events purely aimed at awareness can definitely ignite a person to seek out further information on poverty alleviation and microcredit. The best way to achieve mass awareness is to create some sort of display, showcase or video along with the use of guerilla marketing. There are many creative ways to carry out an awareness effort and some may work better on your specific campus. Here are a few ideas to get the ball rolling: Make posters with pictures of commonly purchased items that cost about $1.25 (a cup of coffee, a pack of gum, a bottle of water, etc) to illustrate that there are 1.1 billion people in the world living on less than $1.25 a day
Types of Education and Awareness Events What is the purpose of your event? Education One of the most critical goals of Whole Planet Foundation’s Student Outreach Program is to educate students and empower them to make pro-poor decisions throughout their lives and give them the tools necessary to make a tangible impact toward alleviating poverty worldwide. This is a very powerful message to relay, and events aimed at education are a great way to help students realize that they can, in fact, make change starting right now. If the goal of your event is education, there are a few resources that can have a lasting effect on young adults on your campus: Host a screening featuring one of compelling documentaries of organizations that support Whole Planet Foundation: Living On One—www.livingonone.org and also available on iTunes Bonsai People—www.bonsaimovie.com To Catch a Dollar—www.tocatchadollar.com Arrange for a Whole Planet Foundation Team Member or Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer to speak about their experiences with microcredit clients across the world to: Your student organization Your classroom At your event Anywhere through Skype Plan a trivia night with rounds dedicated to microfinance, entrepreneurship, Whole Planet Foundation, poverty, cultures across the world, etc. Awareness Alongside education, awareness is a crucial component of this engagement initiative. Awareness may not equip people with hard facts that they can then relay to others, but events purely aimed at awareness can definitely ignite a person to seek out further information on poverty alleviation and microcredit. The best way to achieve mass awareness is to create some sort of display, showcase or video along with the use of guerilla marketing. There are many creative ways to carry out an awareness effort and some may work better on your specific campus. Here are a few ideas to get the ball rolling: Make posters with pictures of commonly purchased items that cost about $1.25 (a cup of coffee, a pack of gum, a bottle of water, etc) to illustrate that there are 1.1 billion people in the world living on less than $1.25 a day