Mission: FEED333 is Feminine Enlightened Entrepreneurs Dedicated to serving the children of the world, and to inspiring possibility, greatness and prosperity to positively affect social and economic change.
Vision: We see a world where all children receive the nourishment for their bodies, to FUEL the expansion of their minds, to ignite the fires in their hearts, to live as the greatest possibility of their spirits! |
FEED 333 – 2006 – WT raised money to feed 1.2 million children in need in the United States, through our partners: FEED THE CHILDREN, CHILDREN’S HUNGER FUND and HOUSTON FOOD BANK.
FEED333 – 2007 – WT partnered with Feed the Children for the largest food drop distribution in the history of the United States, by delivery food, supplies and holiday gifts to over 15,000 families on both coasts simultaneously (Queens New York and South Central LA)
Our 3rd annual campaign runs for 33 Days - December 2008
This year will are inviting students to raise money for our FEED 333 campaign to encourage youth to get involved in their community and on a national scale. The school that brings in the highest donation will be awarded with awards and prizes. This will also offer content to our social network at www.worldtrustnetwork.tv - www.feed333.com |
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How FEED333 Works
> Each $1 donated provides approximately 9 meals to children in the United States thru three of the most efficient and integral charities in the nation : Children’s Hunger Fund (www.childrenshungerfund.org), Houston Food Bank ( www.houstonfoodbank.org), and Feed The Children ( www.feedthechildren.org ). 5% of every $1 donated goes to 0ur Fiscal Sponsor, World Trust Foundation (www.worldtrust.org) to support youth and education globally. 5% of every $1 donated supports FEED333 to grow its outreach.
> You can WATCH your donation grow in real time throughout the campaign by the FEED-OMETER on both the home page and in your Personal FEED333 Account.
> As you are "feeding" the children, YOU were also nourished, empowered, and supported to being your greatest possibility through thousands of dollars worth of free bonus gifts by the best of today's new thought pioneers to NURTURE YOUR SOUL.
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THE EMPOWERED TEEN SERIES is under our VIRTUAL CLASSROOM curriculum and is intended to empower youth from various walks of life (mainstream schooling, home schooling; as well as the often overlooked youth in Juvenile Justice Detention Centers, Residence Programs and other Juvenile Justice facilities). This program is led by New York Times bestselling authors Janet Bray Atwood and Chris Attwood, and their team of world-class transformational leaders (Rev. Michael Beckwith, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and more). This section will be updated shortly with an exciting announcement and update on the Virtual Classroom and Television Series. |
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The Encanto Project is a coalition including the World Trust Foundation's Youth Ambassador Program, Connection's Eco-Cultural Expeditions, Costa Rica Conservation Trust, and Incredible Places(TM)™, Made For the Media Programs. The Encanto Project vision is to capture interest, educate and inspire action to make change.
If you know of a Youth who would grow from this Incredible Places(TM) program, donate here.
Encanto means enchantment and our focus is to create educational media and experiences that support and inspire onsite conservation work, youth programs, and sustainable practices in remote rainforest regions of Costa Rica, as well as awareness internationally of the successes and needs of these practices. The Encanto Project serves numerous organizations and individuals whose efforts preserve rainforest, effect change by creating sustainable practices in adjacent communities, educate, reach mass audiences through promotion, and develop economy through preservation of these rainforest areas rather than devastating alternatives such as ranching.
This is done in conjunction with community stewardship of these areas through renewable resource development, guides, educators, project managers and leaders, as well as sustainable ecotourism. CRCT and their involvement in the Connections program bring youth and volunteers to Costa Rica. They engage in local preservation and restoration projects whose long lasting effects on the local community not only support the community but also empower them to educate others. Our hope, as part of this grant request, is to bring five inner city youth from the U.S. to Costa Rica for cultural exchange with the remote communities CRCT works with. Their experience would include outdoor education and leadership skills training in conjunction with the World Trust Youth Ambassador Program. Incredible Places(TM) with World Trust will provide media mentoring and documentation as part of the Encanto Project, including documentation of scientists preserving the Tapir and Jaguar, two important endangered species.
World Trust Foundation is committed to bridging cultures and uniting youth through media, art and technology.
Connections Eco-Cultural Expeditions - Costa Rica Through cultural immersion, project-based, exploratory, experiential, and multi-intelligence eco-adventure, participants engage in mind-expanding activities that help build connections with the natural world and other cultures. Highlights include home-stays with a Costa Rican farming family, helping recover endangered species, discovering the rainforest, swimming under waterfalls, artistic expression, global awareness workshops, and much more! One week and two week trips to Costa Rica are made year round. Activities vary depending on season of travel.
Caution: Common Side Effects include: becoming inspired to be part of the change you wish to see in the world and a heightened sense of interconnectedness with the environment and people in other countries.
Incredible Places(TM) has been documenting biodiversity and environmental restoration within Costa Rica and features the work of Costa Rica Conservation Trust as they support the tiny communities and environments within the region identified as The Path of The Tapir, as well as notable leaders in sustainable living and conservation. We are using our footage to create educational media, curriculum, documentary, magazine articles and exhibits and installations that will eventually populate an educational center see plans.
Current Programs, Activities and Accomplishments:
Encanto Project
Over the past several years we have developed the structure and relationships for our ongoing programs. We have completed most of Phase 1, which also included starting educational media production, document organization efforts, translation of existing interviews. Post existing footage and create initial segment on CRCT to demonstrate work being done in Costa Rica by this group.
World Trust Foundation
As part of the Youth Ambassadors program WTF has successfully raised funds to bring youth to Geneva for United Nations conferences, participated in numerous international education efforts. WTF has also raised funds and is currently building housing in Sri Lanka for Tsunami victims.
CRCT with Connections
CRCT and the Connections Program have been perfect examples of spinning straw into gold. These are the reasons why we feel these partners are so important to The Encanto Project
CRCT and Connections work parties benefit communities as much as the folks who volunteer and the youth who have participated.
Programs over the past year have
• Helped the youth of Savegre paint ecological murals and inspiring quotes all over their high school
• Helped build a community recycling center
• Helped create sustainable community pig composting program to save local water sources from pollution
• Provided important mentorship and training sessions to take place with youth that are leading sustainable development projects in their villages
• Helped create new income for host families, guides and other local men and women
• Helped create new conservation-based jobs for rural youth who would have otherwise been forced to log, ranch, hunt for money or migrate to urban centers (including the U.S.) to find work.
Activities for youth have included
• Exploring one of the most biodiverse jungles in the world
• Interacting with the local people in a meaningful way
Past groups have visited and positively affected the following communities and areas
• Mirador de los Quetzales Mt. Lodge (top of Cerro de La Muerte - Central area of Costa Rica),
• San Isidro de El General (urban center in the Central Pacific - pit stop),
• Savegre de Río Nuevo (rural mountain community in the Central Pacific - host community),
• Finca 3 Semillas and La Danta Arboretum (located in the mountains of the División Valley in the Central Pacific).
• Piedras Blancas (very rural mountain village in the Central Pacific - site of rainforest caves),
• La Danta Arboretum and Finca 3 Semillas (located in the mountains of the División Valley in the Central Pacific).
• Hacienda Barú National Wildlife Refuge (on the beach in the Central Pacific).
Partners Connections and CRCT have worked with in the past year:
• Hacienda Barú National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding area www.haciendabaru.com
• Cerro de la Muerte cloud forest
• Instituto ASIS Wildlife Rescue Center and surrounding area www.institutoasis.com
• Los Santos Forest Reserve in the Central Pacific region of Costa Rica.
Youth Testimonials about Connections and CRCT
"This has been a life changing trip to say the least. I feel so much more confident in trying new things - the food, meeting new people, jumping into rivers & speaking Spanish with locals."
- 16 year-old Connections participant
"This experience was amazing and has definitely changed me forever!"
- 17 year-old\ Connections participant
"The experience was incredible and life changing"
• 16 year-old Connections participant
Encanto Overall plans for the coming year
> To engage youth in eco cultural programs currently underway with CRCT and Connections with tangible effects on the environment and the local community
> Develop educational media piece for CRCT, WTF and Costa Rica groups collaborating with them.
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Future
Encanto Education Center and Land Trust with local stewardship to preserve rapidly diminishing rainforest while securing a sustainable future for generations to come. Includes an education center with media programming for the public, made available to scientists, conservation groups and educators around the world. Our target location is in the Osa Peninsula, adjacent to the largest remaining rainforest in Central America.
Structure
The project has been driven and fueled by personal passion turning straw into gold. We have been bootstrapping the project using all available resources to help sustain us. Most of the project has been and will be provided in-kind and through volunteer effort allowing the grant money to effect the largest population.
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Program Founder
Amy Seidman has been an environmental activist along side being a widely published photographer and pioneer multimedia artist. Early accomplishments include developing a pioneer environmental education program for Culver City, CA. This program involved Culver City students in the development of this multimedia environmental education program supported by Sony Resource Center, CCUSD, Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation, Audubon Society and Heal The Bay. The program was so unique and pivotal to the community that it was covered by and aired on NBC National News and was funded by Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation and The City of Culver City.
Prior to this, Amy acted as Associate Producer and Co-Writer of Earth Day Documentary IN RESPONSE TO THAT and the accompanying Public Awareness Campaign. The coverage included Concerts For the Environment, Earth Day 1992, 1993, 1994 and the Great LA Clean Up. She developed a series of multimedia public exhibits and was pivotal in gaining support. Concurrently, she assisted in obtaining grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for a PSA "Get the Lead Out".
Recently, she developed three installations for the Natural World Museum Anima Mundi Exhibition; Five Elements Green Screen, video design for Digital Garden with greenmuseum.org and the visual media for Bernie's Krause's Wild Habitat soundscape installation. Two of these exhibits were included in the UN World Environment Day, Art into Action exhibit at Fort Mason in June of 2005. Digital Garden with greenmuseum.org was included in the Oakland Museum installation at Oakland Airport. These exhibits include images and footage she created over the past 20 years working in environmental media.
Group Facilitator
Kimberly Newton-Klootwyk, CRCT Vice President - Bilingual and Bi-cultural Central/U.S. American Historian/Anthropologist who has been working with rural Costa Rican communities (particularly with the youth) to empower them and provide them with the tools necessary to help them convert to sustainable development. Previous to co-founding CRCT, she was a language teacher for elementary, Jr. High, high school and college students. She holds a teaching certificate from the state of Arizona and also served as English Language Learner's Director for an Arizona school district where she developed academic and social support programs for immigrant students.
Board Overseer
The World Trust Foundation's Board oversees the project with Program Founder Amy Seidman of Incredible Places(TM).
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We live in a time when electives are being siphoned out of the school system and “No Child Left Behind” has caused students to leave behind their creativity, enthusiasm, and passion for learning. Just when it seems that all hope is lost, the Dream Project steps in and creates a context for learning that gives relevance to math, science, social studies, history, and language arts that engage even the most apathetic student to take part in this service-learning curriculum.
At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, a blueprint was created and agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) state that by the year 2015, the world will:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
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On January 25th, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon issued a call, "2008 is the year to act on the Millennium Development Goals with new ideas and approaches. The world is at the middle point of the campaign to end global poverty, but too many nations have fallen behind in the course. We need fresh ideas and fresh approaches," Ban said. "It is a sacred cause." |
That fresh idea and approach is already underway with The Dream Project. The Dream Project is committed to bridging cultures and connecting youth by utilizing media, arts and technology within its curriculum. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the Dream Project is a grade 6-12 educational program that empowers students to discover and invent solutions to the MDGs. Students learn to see themselves and relate to one another as leaders that embody global responsibility, compassion, and a desire to create a world that works for everyone.
The Dream Project was created and is facilitated by Kelly Sullivan Walden, a NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) representative to the United Nations and an educator who creates strategies and activities for enhancing student leadership. The Dream Project has been facilitated at Nimitz Middle School in Los Angeles Unified School District, SMASH (Santa Monica/Malibu Alternative School House), and at Celerity Nascent Charter School in South Los Angeles resulting in “Pocket Change for Change,” a student-led program that raises awareness and funds for schools in developing countries. The Dream Project is currently working with an award winning high school film program in Effingham, Illinois, headed by Joe Fatheree, 2008 Illinois Teacher of the Year and Craig Lindvahl, Milken Award recipient. A documentary was filmed this year chronicling the impact of the project on the students involved. The documentary includes footage of a journey by eight of the students and their teachers to Honduras to speak with the Honduran President and First Lady. Additional footage includes a meeting with four of the Dream Project students with Dr. Muhammad Yunus (2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner) for a discussion about global responsibility. The film is now in the editing stage and will be completed with an original sound track in June. Also of note, Joe Fatheree, 2008 National Teacher of the Year nominee, has created a database of thousands of Teachers of the Year around the country who are looking to implement the Dream Project curricula into their school systems.
Rafael Gonzales and Karen Viaflora from the office of the Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villarigossa, recently gave their official endorsement of the Dream Project. Rafael Gonzales stated, “The Dream Project should be in every classroom. The Mayor’s office enthusiastically supports the Dream Project because it offers students an opportunity to learn about the issues of the world in a way that empowers them to be better people in their community, classroom, and with their families. We are looking forward to screening the documentary at City Hall.”
We are in dialogue with Shamina DeGonzaga, Special Advisor to the President of the General Assembly and Chair of the DPI/NGO Conference, about presenting a panel discussion as well as screening the film at UNESCO this September, in Paris, France.
Our intent is to make the day-to-day progress of the Dream Project accessible to students and educators worldwide. To this end, we are working with NSTOY (National State Teachers Of The Year) which represent approximately 3 million teachers in the U.S. and Crossing Borders, a MTV-style reality show about the impact of young people who work on solving the MDGs. We are also working with FOX Digital to create a web-based series that will follow the student’s transformations and teacher’s insights, as well as the solutions they create. Both the TV and Web shows will be a platform to encourage students and teachers to blog and vlog (video blog) their ideas and solutions related to the MDGs.
Terry Thoren (producer of the Rugrats and Wild Thornberry’s) has joined our team to help us create an animated series that will include eight characters representing the eight Millennium Goals as they work together to save the world. This series will include a product line of school supplies, plush toys, video games, and clothes, etc.
A web portal will be created in conjunction with some of the top educators in the world that will become a global home for students,teachers and parents.
Plans for next year include
- A year-long version of the Dream Project facilitated for the students of Crossroads High School in Van Nuys, CA. Crossroads serves the needs of Specifically Learning Disabled (SLD) and Emotionally Disturbed (ED) students, fifty percent of whom are on parole, and the other fifty percent are in the foster care system.
- A social entrepreneurial program that includes a micro-credit loan challenge with the guidance of award winning entrepreneurs that are committed to making a difference in the inner-cities.
- A documentary that follows the unique challenges and stories of the students and the teachers at Crossroads High School.
- A continuing year-long program with Nimitz, SMASH, and Celerity.
- The development of software and the production of an instructional Facilitator’s Guide for teachers throughout the US.
- Our vision is to expand the Dream Project into an awareness initiative that grows into and promotes inspiration and action throughout the globe.
- Coming Soon
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