Programs
The MCN operates three primary programs: Millennium Campus Conference, Millennium Fellows, and MCN Student Action Grants. The Millennium Campus Conference is an annual fall event that convenes over 1,000 students and global leaders to discuss youth commitments to global public service. Millennium Fellows is a new program being unveiled in the fall of 2013, working with a cohort of ten campus organization leaders across Boston to help improve their organizations over the course of an academic year. MCN Student Action Grants has allocated over $50,000 in support to MCN member organizations since 2010.
At key moments, the MCN also engages in advocacy efforts. The MCN mobilized its members and national partners to engage in White House Youth Roundtables in 2011, and met with President Barack Obama and senior Administration officials in June 2011 to share their work and perspectives. A year prior, the MCN organized Commit in September, a national advocacy campaign to make global development a US foreign policy priority for the fall UN General Assembly Meeting.
To support MCN programs, the MCN offers a series of awareness and fundraising events to engage donors and supporters. Most notably, the MCN hosts the Global Generation Awards during the Millennium Campus Conference weekend.
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Famous quotes containing the word programs:
“Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for “Kukla, Fran and Ollie,” the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.”
—Tallulah Bankhead (1903–1968)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“Although good early childhood programs can benefit all children, they are not a quick fix for all of society’s ills—from crime in the streets to adolescent pregnancy, from school failure to unemployment. We must emphasize that good quality early childhood programs can help change the social and educational outcomes for many children, but they are not a panacea; they cannot ameliorate the effects of all harmful social and psychological environments.”
—Barbara Bowman (20th century)