Updates On Giving Dorsum (And An Inquire For Help!!)
Today I desire to utter close FLYTE, this website’s nonprofit arm.
Over the concluding few months, I haven’t kept everyone every bit upwardly to engagement close the organisation every bit I would like. I apologize for that too hope that, starting today, that volition change.
Though quiet, we’ve been doing a lot of go behind the scenes, improving our website too strategy, too creating novel partnerships then that FLYTE becomes a to a greater extent than integral component division of this website too community.
First, every bit a refresher, what is FLYTE?
The Foundation for Learning too Youth Travel Education (FLYTE) provides logistical, planning, too fiscal back upwardly to high schools too teachers who desire to bring their students overseas to give them a real-world context for what they are learning inward schoolhouse — retrieve visiting the D-Day beaches inward French Republic or learning close sustainable evolution inward a rainforest inward Costa Rica. I started it inward 2015 because I believe non plenty kids acquire the lead a chance to travel, come across the world, sense other cultures, too realize the practical side to their education!
While many wealthy schoolhouse districts send students on overseas educational trips, schools too teachers inward underserved areas lead keep petty or no chance to offering their students this experience. Their schools too communities lack the resources to brand such a trip happen. I wanted to create an organisation that helps people inward forgotten parts of the country, because everyone deserves a lead a chance to come across too larn close the world!
Thanks to you, FLYTE has raised over $88,000 USD. Last year, nosotros sent a grouping of students from Atlanta to United Mexican States too unopen to other grouping from Washington, DC, to Republic of Cuba (and we’re preparing for a tertiary trip inward June). These students had an amazing fourth dimension too the trips had a profound ship upon on them. Here’s what a dyad of the students said close their experience:
“This trip agency then much to me because having the chance to move exterior of the dry reason too my community (an chance a lot of peers don’t acquire to have) is amazing too it actually helped opened upwardly my eyes too come across that at that topographic point is then much to a greater extent than exterior of Atlanta.” – Nokio, BEST Academy student
“I would’ve never idea I would lead keep gotten out of my city, where people wound too practise bad things to i another. It makes me desire to move too larn the history of every dry reason inward the world!” –Tija, junior at Anacostia High School
So, today, I desire to utter close a few other changes amongst FLYTE:
First, we’ve created a volunteer department on the FLYTE website. Now we’ve created a infinite where volunteers tin aid grow the organisation amongst us. I dear the passion this community has for FLYTE too I desire to amend channel that into action. You tin view this page to come across our electrical flow volunteer needs.
Second, we’re looking for interns. We bespeak help. We’ve tried to practise it all alone, but nosotros bespeak unopen to aid growing FLYTE. If y'all alive inward the NYC expanse too are fluent inward social media, we’d dear to lead keep you! We’re a licensed 501(c)(3) too y'all tin acquire an internship that counts for college credit. You’ll go inward my component division inward NYC amongst my executive manager too the residuum of the Nomadic Matt team. You tin apply here!
Third, this website forthwith has a dedicated FLYTE page where y'all tin come across all the updates too data close the program, schoolhouse trips, too anything else FLYTE related. Moving forward, FLYTE is going to exceed a to a greater extent than integral component division of this website. Let’s go together every bit community to present to a greater extent than kids the basis (especially inward today’s surroundings where people desire to unopen borders rather than opened upwardly them)! This page is a go inward progress too we’ll hold upwardly expanding it over the adjacent few weeks!
Fourth, we’re starting weekly emails to donors that volition update them on the school, kids, organization, too everything inward between. This is something that should lead keep happened a long fourth dimension ago, too I merely never got my human activity together. My executive manager too I are forthwith making it a priority to send out weekly emails to you, then that y'all volition ever know what is going on inward the organisation too the kids, too how your donation is beingness used.
Fifth, we’ve moved to a novel donation platform that volition allow us to host donations correct on our website (no to a greater extent than going to unopen to other website), cut down fees, too bring recurring donations. This novel scheme volition ensure that it’s easier to donate too that at that topographic point are fewer fees when y'all do! It volition hold upwardly alive past times tomorrow!
Finally, I bespeak your aid again. We’re sending a grouping of students from Excelsior Academy inward Newburgh, NY, to Quito, Republic of Ecuador inward June! The students volition volunteer at Casa Victoria, a grassroots community betterment programme located inward a struggling department of Quito, too go amongst local students inward an after-school program. Not only volition they acquire to sense unopen to other culture, country, too continent but they volition likewise give dorsum spell there.
Please aid us complete raising coin for the students at Excelsior. We’re a petty over $20,000 from our goal. I’ll hold upwardly matching donations upwardly to $10,000, which agency that if the community tin donate at to the lowest degree that much, we’ll hitting our destination too send the kids on their trend (any extra coin raised volition exceed to futurity trips)! For most of these students, this volition hold upwardly their starting fourth dimension discover of the dry reason then this is a lead a chance to actually brand an added difference!
Newburgh, i time a thriving manufacturing middle on the Hudson River, has faced deindustrialization too failed urban renewal attempts that lead keep left the town struggling both financially too socially. Complicating the matter, the Newburgh schoolhouse district is located inward what the FBI has repeatedly named i of the 10 most unsafe cities per capita inward the United States.
As Excelsior instructor Christine McCartney says, “At Excelsior Academy, nosotros strive to create global citizens who recognize their ability to enact alter at both the local too global level.”
Here are the students talking close why this is then of import to them — too what this trip agency to them:
Donations tin hold upwardly made via our Crowdrise page (minimum $10) or via the widget below. Those who donate to a greater extent than than $10 volition acquire unopen to awesome swag:
$50 – For donations of at to the lowest degree this amount, I’m offering my e-books How to Teach English linguistic communication Overseas and The Ultimate Guide to Travel Hacking, too my guides to NYC, Paris, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Thailand, too Hong Kong.
$100 – For donations of at to the lowest degree this amount, y'all volition acquire the e-books too urban substance guides PLUS a signed re-create of the impress mass How to Travel the World on $50 a Day too a FLYTE t-shirt (US transportation only).
$250 – For donations of at to the lowest degree this amount, y'all volition acquire all of the higher upwardly PLUS an hr of move planning amongst me, a souvenir from Ecuador, too a give thank y'all you menu from the students!
Excelsior Academy Goes Global on Crowdrise
If everyone donated merely $10, nosotros could fund the entire trip – too many to a greater extent than similar it – correct away. The to a greater extent than nosotros raise, the to a greater extent than nosotros tin aid these students too others similar them.
Ten bucks isn’t a lot — it’s i less Chipotle meal, a dyad of beers, i Old Fashioned, i Uber ride. It’s non much inward the grand scheme of things.
If y'all can’t donate, y'all tin likewise aid past times sharing this motility on Facebook too Twitter, too past times emailing your friends, family, cousins, pen pals, coworkers – anyone – too letting them know close this. Help us spread the give-and-take close this receive then nosotros tin alter every bit many lives every bit possible. The to a greater extent than people know close this, the better!
Thank y'all from the bottom of my pump for all your past, present, too futurity back upwardly of this program!
P.S. – Here’s a super awesome too shareable Adobe Spark page that has all the essential data y'all desire to know close FLYTE! You tin portion this page amongst your friends, family, too on social media! Please aid upwardly spread the word!
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