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[Kavita Chandra]

Just in case you guys wanted to participate in any of the following! Hope
your summers are going really well!

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From: "Habitat For Humanity Youth Programs Update" <ypupdate at habitat.org>
To: Jeffrey Borowitz <mit-habitat at mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:08:47 -0400
Subject: More ways to serve with Habitat for Humanity!

     *YOUTH PROGRAMS UPDATE
JUNE 2010

Opportunities to serve and learn with Habitat
*
*Register for the Youth Leadership Conference 2010
*The fourth Habitat for Humanity Youth Leadership
Conference<http://www.habitat.org/gvylc>will be October 22-24, 2010 in
Columbus, Ohio.
Register <http://www.habitat.org/gvylc/registration.aspx> now! The registration
grant application <http://www.habitat.org/gvylc/registration.aspx> and workshop
proposal <http://www.habitat.org/gvylc/present.aspx> form are also online
now.

*Plan summer and fall trips with Collegiate Challenge *
Over 12,000 high school and college students built and rehabilitated homes
this spring break through Habitat for Humanity's Collegiate
Challenge<http://www.habitat.org/youthprograms/colchal>.
Learn what you need to
know<http://www.habitat.org/youthprograms/parent_teacher_leader/collegiate_challenge/need_to_know.aspx>about
Collegiate Challenge, check the site
lists<http://www.habitat.org/youthprograms/parent_teacher_leader/collegiate_challenge/site_lists.aspx>and
register<http://www.habitat.org/youthprograms/parent_teacher_leader/collegiate_challenge/registration.aspx>now.
Groups that are already registered can view required
forms<http://www.habitat.org/youthprograms/parent_teacher_leader/collegiate_challenge/forms.aspx>online.

*Join our team
*Habitat for Humanity International’s Volunteer Mobilization department,
which includes the youth programs, is hiring. Check out jobs with Habitat
for Humanity <http://www.habitat.org/hr/default.aspx> now:
Collegiate Challenge
associate<http://www.habitat.org/cd/hr/jobsDetail.aspx?pid=35929>
Youth volunteer engagement associate
director<http://www.habitat.org/cd/hr/jobsDetail.aspx?pid=35932>
Volunteer engagement support
coordinator<http://www.habitat.org/cd/hr/jobsDetail.aspx?pid=35538>

Volunteer engagement customer service support
coordinator<http://www.habitat.org/cd/hr/jobsDetail.aspx?pid=35414>
*Serve Habitat as an AmeriCorps VISTA**
*AmeriCorps VISTAs with Habitat for Humanity help build organizational
capacity, engage communities, and increase and retain volunteers and donors,
all to serve low-income families in need of simple, decent housing. Join
Habitat’s unique team of AmeriCorps members serving throughout the United
States! Check out the 2010-2011 Habitat for Humanity AmeriCorps VISTA
positions <http://www.habitat.org/cd/hr/cncsjobs.aspx?type=6> now.

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 *Campus Chapter and Youth United updates*
*Nominate an outstanding group or leader: Habitat for Humanity’s National
Youth Awards*
The annual National Youth Awards recognize and encourage youth and those who
support youth involvement who productively, innovatively and creatively work
to further Habitat for Humanity’s mission. Awards will be given to
oustanding campus chapter, Collegiate Challenge and Youth United groups.
Nomination forms are available to affiliates and chapters now on My.Habitat.


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*News to know*

*E-mail fraud alert*
Habitat for Humanity is aware e-mails circulating which purport to be from
an official Habitat for Humanity source offering employment opportunities.
Please be aware these e-mails, which do not come from a “@habitat.org”
address and request personal information, are fraudulent. We are taking
every step possible to report this matter to the appropriate authorities. If
you have received this e-mail, please delete it from your inbox. To report a
suspicious employment-related e-mail, please send it to
reportscam at habitat.org.

 *Thousands of Habitat volunteer apply for Teach For America *
>From August 2009 to February 2010, over 46,000 people, including many
Habitat volunteers, applied to Teach For America, the national corps of
outstanding future leaders who commit two years to teach in urban and rural
public schools as fully trained and salaried educators. Applications for the
2011-2012 year will be available August 2010; sign up to learn
more<https://www.teachforamerica.org/online/info/index.jsp?action=signUp>
on
TFA’s website.
*Service-learning grant available**
*The Corporation for National Service has up to $450,000 in grants for
innovative
and community-based service-learning
programs<http://www.learnandserve.gov/about/programs/community_based.asp>.
Affiliates who partner with school districts and community colleges on
service-learning may want to apply for these “youth engagement zone”
grants. Contact mdeferranti at habitat.org for more information. Grant
applications<http://www.nationalservice.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=82>are
due June 15, 2010.
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-- 
Kavita Chandra
Massachusetts Institute Technology
Class of 2012
chandrak at mit.edu | 850.445.1232
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