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Abby Falik Honored by Goldman Sachs for Entrepreneurship, Third Year Running

2019-10-18

Abby Falik, CEO of Global Citizen Year Among 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs at 2019 Builders + Innovators Summit Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is recognizing Global Citizen Year CEO Abby Falik as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2019 at its Builders + Innovators Summit in Santa Barbara, California. Goldman Sachs selected Abby Falik as...

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Global Citizen Year Launches Partnership with Envoys

2019-10-09

Global Citizen Year and Envoys are thrilled to announce a new partnership to offer a transformative global gap year experience to graduates of Envoys international trips for high school students.  As part of this partnership, Global Citizen Year will award a $5000 merit scholarship to graduates of Envoys programs that have been nominated by one...

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University of Rochester Spotlight: Siera Sadowski (Ecuador ’19)

2019-10-08

‘Just the most incredible feeling in the world’ Siera Sadowski ’23 says reading and writing are among her passions. Growing up, she pursued them in the face of numerous challenges. Her family relied on food stamps and went through periods without heat in their house. “But I always had a roof to sleep under,” she...

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Getting Smart Podcast: Abby Falik on the Benefits of Global Service

2019-10-08

Abby Falik interviewed by Tom Vander Ark in the Getting Smart Podcast. Abby speaks about her mission to expand access to life-changing global immersion experiences between high school and college. And her belief that these experiences are uniquely suited to unlock courage, shape identity, and develop leadership and unlock courage. Find more at Getting Smart

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Alum Joan Hanawi: I Took a Gap Year Before Beginning College. Here’s Why You Should, Too.

2019-10-08

I thought there was only one option after high school: college. I felt like I would be a failure if I didn’t go straight to school, or at least, that’s the feeling that had been instilled in me. I spent my first 18 years building up my academic profile to get into a prestigious school....

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DCPS-Global Citizen Year Fellow Featured in The Washington Post

2019-06-24

How D.C.’s class of 2019 decided what’s next By Perry Stein They are already activists, nonprofit leaders and world travelers. They have collected acceptance letters to prestigious universities, signed commitment letters to start jobs in the coming weeks and enrolled in academies to become police officers and firefighters. They are teenagers and adults who took...

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Chicago NPR Station WBEZ Features CPS-Global Citizen Year Fellows

2019-06-24

Extending The ‘Gap Year’ After High School Beyond Kids Of Means Four Chicago teens from low-income families are getting a chance to do something usually reserved for the wealthy. They will get to take a trip of a lifetime during a gap year after high school — for free. As part of a partnership with...

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ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE DCPS and CPS GLOBAL CITIZEN YEAR FELLOWSHIPS

2019-05-29

Today Global Citizen Year is thrilled to announce our first cohort of Fellowship winners through our ground-breaking new partnerships with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Washington D.C. Public Schools (DCPS). Last fall both CPS and DCPS led a district-wide nomination process to identify highly motivated students to apply for the Global Citizen Year Fellowship. From...

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