GPI Announcements
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
1-246
October-November Newsletter and GBM TONIGHT
Our monthly newsletter cam out last week and can be seen here. TONIGHT at 8pm in 1-246 is our next GBM. Come have a say in the direction of GPI!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Give your input on GPI's direction and get the update on everything that's happening the rest of the semester.
There will be no General Body Meeting tonight - our next meeting will be Wednesday, November 4, at 8pm in 1-246. Come share your ideas for what GPI should do, or find out what our ideas are. This is your chance to tell us if you want to see more projects, more local service, more events, more activism, or anything else we haven't thought of. More details will be announced in the next few days.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Poverty Action Week 09!!
Poverty Action Week starts TOMORROW - check out the schedule!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
General Body Meeting
We're holding our first General Body Meeting tomorrow Thursday, October 8 in room 5-217. Come learn what Poverty Action Week is all about and how you can get involved! From service events to famous speakers to intriguing displays, Poverty Action Week will reach the whole MIT community.
Also, come learn about GPI's opportunities to travel and be a part of international development projects abroad over IAP! Right now, we planning on working with at least THREE communities, in the Philippines, Bolivia and Mexico!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Poverty Action Week 2009 Schedule
Poverty Action Week is coming up October 13-16! Check out our schedule here. If you are interested in getting involved or have any questions, please email gpi-education@mit.edu. Hope to see you there!
Thursday, October 1 2009
September-October 2009 Newsletter
GPI is already off to a great start in the year with our Fall Board Retreat and Welcome Dinner. Find out what else we're planning and take a look at the Poverty Action Week schedule. September-October Newsletter.
Monday, August 31, 2009
August 2009 Newsletter
Looking to get involved with GPI? Find out what GPI is planning for the fall. August Newsletter.
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
July 2009 Newsletter
Wondering what GPI is up to for the summer? Check out our newsletter!
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Congratulations to GPI Board 2009-2010!
The position of Director of Operations still needs to be filled. Please contact gpi-exec@mit.edu if interested, or if you would like to join a particular team or have a project suggestion. We welcome new ideas!
- Executive Director - Kathleen Li
- Director of Finances - Suniti Sundaram
- Director of Education Team - Ritu Tandon
- Health Programming Chair - Mimi Yen
- Education Programming Chair - Amrita Karambelkar
- Infrastructure Programming Chair - Connie Lu
- Technology Programming Chair - Anju Somani
- Economics Programming Chair - Ambar Mehta
- Public Policy Programming Chair - Jessie Li
- Director of Outreach Team - Elli Pula
- Communications Chair - Courtney Sung
- Membership Development Chair - Anjali Thakkar
- Director of Action Team - Kristen Watkins
- Project Hunter - Manvi Goel
- Public Relations Chair - Rachel Bucchorn
- Cambodia Project Head - Karen Li
- Gawad Kalinga Project Head - AJ Williams
- Global Medical Brigade Project Head - Steph Yoon
- U2U Project Head - Sivakami Sambasivam
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 at 7:30-9 PM
Room 9-250
Education in Africa: First Hand Accounts, Featuring Undergraduates and Graduate students from Africa
Community Planning in South Africa
~Plan for the Post-Apartheid World~
Dr. Reinhard Goethert, Director of Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements (SIGUS)
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 7:30-9 PM
Room 8-205
Education in Africa: First Hand Accounts, Featuring Undergraduates and Graduate students from Africa
The earliest traces of human civilization were found in the continent of Africa. Yet today, with a third of the population suffering from malnutrition, an average life expectancy of 41 years and over 300 million people living under $1 dollar a day, Africa faces many poverty issues. In this Series, we will look at these problems and their solutions from a variety of lenses.
In “Education in Africa,” we will be examining what education looks like in Africa by conversing with MIT students who came from the continent. Through their firsthand accounts of schooling in Africa, they will give us a glimpse of the developments and problems of the education system in Africa. This will be an interactive forum where we will also be seeking how we can improve education in Africa, with the belief that education is the remedy to the cycle of poverty.
E-mail gpi-education@mit.edu with any comments or questions.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Location TBA
GPI February General Body Meeting
We'll be having our first general body meeting of the semester next Monday. Stay tuned for the time and place.
As always, e-mail gpi-exec@mit.edu with any comments or questions
Saturday, December 6, 2008
*GPI December General Body Meeting and Winter Social*
Join us for our last GBM of the year with special guest Andrew Gulbrandson who will be speaking on "The Conflict between the National and Local Government of Bangkok." As part of our mission to make poverty alleviation an institute priority, we are sending a message to President Hockfield and administration by buying livestock from Oxfam Unwrapped which sends an animal in their honor to a poor family. If you'd like to take part, we will be collecting money at the GBM. We will also have some holiday cards and development related books for sale so get some last minute Christmas shopping done!
Stay after for some hot cocoa (with marshmallows!), apple cider, and Christmas cookies! Feel free to bring friends, after all, the more the merrier!
When: Tuesday, December 9 @ 8PM
Where: TBA
We hope to see you there!
Questions/Comments? Email gpi-exec@mit.edu
Sunday, November 2, 2008
The next general body meeting will be at Monday, Nov. 3 (tomorrow) at 9:30pm in the McCormick Green Living Room. We will be debriefing on our poverty week experiences and want to hear your comments and ideas for future GPI events. Learn how to get involved at MIT and about the Millennium Campus Network!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Thank you to everybody who helped make Poverty Week a success! Stay tuned for details of the date of our next general body meeting (sometime in the next two weeks.)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Due to scheduling conflicts, the Domestic Poverty Discussion for today is cancelled. We still encourage you to come to our evening speaker, Utkan Demirci at 7pm in 6-120, an HST professor who will be speaking about his research in low-cost HIV detection technologies.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Nicholas Negroponte, the Poverty Week opening keynote and founder of the One Laptop Per Child program, will be speaking Monday night at 7:30pm in 32-123! Also, the week-long action challenge, not buying coffee or other beverages and instead donating that money to the Global Volunteer Network, will be starting Monday as well. Stop by GPI's lobby 10 booth to sign up for the challenge and donate! A full Poverty Week schedule can be found here.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The GPI website is now live! Check out Poverty Week, coming up October 18-24.
Monday, September 29, 2008
We're working on bringing the website up to date. Please bear with us in the meantime! If you are interested in getting involved, or have any questions, please e-mail gpi-exec@mit.edu.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Purchase your tickets for the Millennium Campus Concert on Saturday 4/19 on the Dispatch Foundation website. Proceeds go towards Grassroots Soccer HIV/AIDS Education.
Monday, March 31, 2008
We would like to announce Senator John Edwards as our opening keynote for the Inaugural Millennium Campus Conference!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
The GPI Millennium Campus Conference site has been redesigned. Hope you enjoy the new look!
Wed. Jan. 9, 06-08:00pm
MIT Campus, Rm 4-370, Dinner provided
"RX FOR SURVIVAL"--Global Health Series Spotlighting International Public Health
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Screening of PBS series "Rx for Survival."
"Rx for Survival" highlights the world's deadliest diseases, history of epidemics, research, patient perspectives and global healthcare initiatives. The series also features Dr. Paul Farmer from Partners in Health, Dr. Alfred Sommers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as other experts from organizations like Doctors without Borders and the World
Health Organization.
"The Heroes" is a two-hour synopsis that delves into the work of health champions including people who have launched the Botswana HIV/AIDS program, who have built clean-water systems in Mexico, and who have found a five cent cure that alleviates nightblindness and reduces childhood mortality.
Later episodes of the series to be shown the following Wednesdays with speakers--
Jan. 23
Dr. Jeff Griffiths, MD, PhD, who is the director of the Global Health Division of the Tufts School of Medicine's Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
And
Jan 30
Dr. David Jones, MD, PhD, who is a professor at MIT, staff at the Psychiatric Emergency Service at Cambridge Hospital, and a lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/
Monday 12/3 - Friday 12/7
MIT Campus, Lobby 10
Handcrafted Cards from Rwanda and Calcutta
Products made in Rwanda by orphaned youth using hand-made paper
*Feature cards made in Africa
(http://www.cardsfromafrica.com)
Golden Tree Arts
Products made in India by women at high risk for prostitution
(http://tho.org/goldentreearts)
Stop by, buy a card, learn about GPI, and help share love this holiday season