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Email to Jarrett Barrios:
Dear Jarrett,
Thank you for recently speaking at the Hyams Foundation Board Meeting. We all really enjoyed your presence and the insights and experiences that you shared. I also met you once a few years ago when I was executive director of City Year Boston. Our board member Steve Thompkins brought you in for a visit. These days I work for Northeastern's School of Social Science, Urban Affairs, and Public Policy.
I am writing to you, in an entirely different capacity, to ask if you would serve as a Keynote Speaker at the National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy, and Social Action.
The conference will take place March 7 - 9, 2008 at Northeastern University.
This conference has been taking place since 1985. For most of those years, it was put on by a small, national non-profit called Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL). In recent years, it was produced by Action Without Borders/idealist.org.
We expect about 1,000 participants, mostly college students, some high school, and a good proportion of staff from colleges and national non-profits.
COOL's origins were rooted in community service but have expanded over the years to encompass a broader range of social action including advocacy and political participation. I would still estimate that most of the students in attendance come from community service programs. Whatever mode of action students choose to apply themselves, we want to challenge them and expand their imagination and expectations for what is possible, and for what can be accomplished through collective action -- whether direct service, advocacy, electoral politics, social enterprise, etc.
There are a number of reasons why we think you'd be a fantastic keynote speaker in addition to being a general, all-around great and inspirational leader.
We would love to have you share your personal experiences and influences, along with your insights, lessons, perspective about social change, leadership, politics, education, etc.
The speech would take place either the evening of Friday, March 7th, between 8:30 and 10pm, or mid-day on Sunday, March 8th, between 1:30 and 2:30. It would be 15-20 minutes. If you are interested, we would love to have you for either time slot.
Let me know if you would be interested and available to accept our invitation to serve as one of our keynote speakers. It would be an honor to have you.
I'd be glad to talk more about it with you and answer questions of course.
John Sarvey
IMPACT Conference National Planning Committee
Email to Ned Rimer: Dear Ned,
I hope you're doing well! Thanks for recently accepting my request to connect on LinkedIn.
It was great to see you at that last Citizen Schools dinner. Also great to learn more about you and your life.
I am writing you to invite you to serve as a Keynote Speaker at a National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy, and Social Action.
The conference will take place March 7 - 9, 2008 at Northeastern University.
I'm not sure if you are very familiar with what was the COOL Conference. It started back in 1985. Edith Buhs and I first worked together on the staff of the 1992 COOL Conference. Anyways, about three or four years ago, COOL was acquired by Idealist.org. The conference became the Idealist/COOL Conference for a few years. Several months ago, Idealist decided that its core strategy no longer included any programming focused primarily at college students. So the conference has spun back out as an independent effort organized by a national planning committee. We decided that Impact was a more powerful word than COOL.
We expect about 1,000 participants, mostly college students, some high school, and a good proportion of staff from colleges and national non-profits.
COOL's origins were rooted in community service, but have expanded over the years to encompass a broader range of social action including advocacy and political participation. I would still estimate that most of the students in attendance come from campus service programs. Whatever mode of action students choose to apply themselves, we want to challenge them and expand their imagination and expectations for what is possible, and for what can be accomplished.
There are a number of reasons why we think you'd be a fantastic keynote speaker in addition to being a general, all-around great and inspirational leader.
We would love to have you share your personal experiences and influences, along with your insights, lessons, perspective about social change, leadership, education, etc.
* Your experience and leadership as the co-founder of Citizen Schools is certainly a major part of the story and example we'd love for you to share.
* We'd also love to hear about the different formative experiences that you had, things that shaped who you are and why you do what you do.
* The leadership role you played with the EMS for the city of Burlington while at U of Vermont would be great for illustrating the scale and scope of operations that students can lead.
The speech would take place either the evening of Friday, March 7th, between 8:30 and 10pm, or mid-day on Sunday, March 8th, between 1:30 and 2:30. It would be 15-20 minutes.
Let me know if you would be interested and available to accept our invitation to serve as one of our keynote speakers. It would be an honor to have you.
I'd be glad to talk more about it with you and answer questions of course.
John
Dear Jarrett,
Thank you for recently speaking at the Hyams Foundation Board Meeting. We all really enjoyed your presence and the insights and experiences that you shared. I also met you once a few years ago when I was executive director of City Year Boston. Our board member Steve Thompkins brought you in for a visit. These days I work for Northeastern's School of Social Science, Urban Affairs, and Public Policy.
I am writing to you, in an entirely different capacity, to ask if you would serve as a Keynote Speaker at the National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy, and Social Action.
The conference will take place March 7 - 9, 2008 at Northeastern University.
This conference has been taking place since 1985. For most of those years, it was put on by a small, national non-profit called Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL). In recent years, it was produced by Action Without Borders/idealist.org.
We expect about 1,000 participants, mostly college students, some high school, and a good proportion of staff from colleges and national non-profits.
COOL's origins were rooted in community service but have expanded over the years to encompass a broader range of social action including advocacy and political participation. I would still estimate that most of the students in attendance come from community service programs. Whatever mode of action students choose to apply themselves, we want to challenge them and expand their imagination and expectations for what is possible, and for what can be accomplished through collective action -- whether direct service, advocacy, electoral politics, social enterprise, etc.
There are a number of reasons why we think you'd be a fantastic keynote speaker in addition to being a general, all-around great and inspirational leader.
We would love to have you share your personal experiences and influences, along with your insights, lessons, perspective about social change, leadership, politics, education, etc.
The speech would take place either the evening of Friday, March 7th, between 8:30 and 10pm, or mid-day on Sunday, March 8th, between 1:30 and 2:30. It would be 15-20 minutes. If you are interested, we would love to have you for either time slot.
Let me know if you would be interested and available to accept our invitation to serve as one of our keynote speakers. It would be an honor to have you.
I'd be glad to talk more about it with you and answer questions of course.
John Sarvey
IMPACT Conference National Planning Committee
Email to Ned Rimer: Dear Ned,
I hope you're doing well! Thanks for recently accepting my request to connect on LinkedIn.
It was great to see you at that last Citizen Schools dinner. Also great to learn more about you and your life.
I am writing you to invite you to serve as a Keynote Speaker at a National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy, and Social Action.
The conference will take place March 7 - 9, 2008 at Northeastern University.
I'm not sure if you are very familiar with what was the COOL Conference. It started back in 1985. Edith Buhs and I first worked together on the staff of the 1992 COOL Conference. Anyways, about three or four years ago, COOL was acquired by Idealist.org. The conference became the Idealist/COOL Conference for a few years. Several months ago, Idealist decided that its core strategy no longer included any programming focused primarily at college students. So the conference has spun back out as an independent effort organized by a national planning committee. We decided that Impact was a more powerful word than COOL.
We expect about 1,000 participants, mostly college students, some high school, and a good proportion of staff from colleges and national non-profits.
COOL's origins were rooted in community service, but have expanded over the years to encompass a broader range of social action including advocacy and political participation. I would still estimate that most of the students in attendance come from campus service programs. Whatever mode of action students choose to apply themselves, we want to challenge them and expand their imagination and expectations for what is possible, and for what can be accomplished.
There are a number of reasons why we think you'd be a fantastic keynote speaker in addition to being a general, all-around great and inspirational leader.
We would love to have you share your personal experiences and influences, along with your insights, lessons, perspective about social change, leadership, education, etc.
* Your experience and leadership as the co-founder of Citizen Schools is certainly a major part of the story and example we'd love for you to share.
* We'd also love to hear about the different formative experiences that you had, things that shaped who you are and why you do what you do.
* The leadership role you played with the EMS for the city of Burlington while at U of Vermont would be great for illustrating the scale and scope of operations that students can lead.
The speech would take place either the evening of Friday, March 7th, between 8:30 and 10pm, or mid-day on Sunday, March 8th, between 1:30 and 2:30. It would be 15-20 minutes.
Let me know if you would be interested and available to accept our invitation to serve as one of our keynote speakers. It would be an honor to have you.
I'd be glad to talk more about it with you and answer questions of course.
John
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| jacquelinele33 | E-mail to Helice Bridges, CEO/founder of Difference Makers Internat'l | 3 | Dec 21 2007, 1:18 PM EST by jacquelinele33 | ||
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Note: Helice is a very close friend of mine, so this e-mail is informal.
Hello Helice! Recently I joined the Planning Committee of a huge leadership conference held in Boston called IMPACT: National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy, and Social Action. I am a member of the Keynotes/Forums Subcommittee, and we are currently looking at potential speakers for our conference to be held in April (I can get the exact dates for you in a bit -- I JUST joined so I don't know all of the details). Anyway, two things: I want YOU to speak! You're PERFECT for this conference -- the title of the conference is exactly what we're about, and I know you'll have a lot of great things to say about Acknowledgement and Civic Engagement. Are you interested at all in this opportunity? Second, I feel horrible about this, but... I'm having trouble remembering the name of a certain someone who was at one of our Inspire America meetings at the TLC office. I thiiink her name is Joanne, but I'm unsure. She overcame Identity Theft and I believe helped create the federal statute about identity theft, and she is an employee for Difference Makers International. She also lives on the East Coast. I can't remember her name or contact info. because I left my business cards back at home (right now I'm at Bentley College in Greater Boston). If you are unable to attend our conference, I'd love to get in touch with her since it'd be more geographically possible, etc. Please get back to me as soon as you can! I'm so jazzed for this event, I just want to get things rolling, and the sooner I hear from you the faster I can get you in on this and get everyone fired up about meeting/listening to you!! |
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