CHARITY: GIVING BACK TO MY COMMUNITY

I support the following charities because of the amazing work they are doing to improve the lives of sick children and their families. Click the links below to learn more about these organizations and how you can help. There are many ways to give back, and increasing your awareness is an awesome first step. Together we can make a difference in the lives of children all over the world. Change starts with us!

The recent devastation in Haiti is astounding. Please visit www.yele.org and www.redcross.org to learn ways you can help.

GimmeMo Foundation

The GimmeMo Foundation has a mission of bettering the youth of the world through new models of communication and connection to positive, empowering, information and resources.

GimmeMo targets three remarkably ignored problems that lay at the heart of many of the issues young people must confront in their daily lives:

1) The modern world has presented a superabundance of information to young people who have no ability in filtering or judging the positive or negative impact this information has on their lives.

2) This rapid paradigm change created a generation of parents, teachers, and others who have little experience with which to guide these young people, worse, many do not have the skills to effectively communicate with this generation of youth.

3) Forge relationships between the modern and developing world on global issues. Highlight positive contributions youth are making globally. Expand youth views to extend beyond their present environment, situation, or circumstance in order to become aware of opportunities that a part of current globalization. Help youth identify the common interests among all humanity, promote religious tolerance, and build mutual understanding.

GimmeMo’s primary objectives are:

To develop new techniques to bypass the growing barriers in communication between generations and give youth the tools to filter, interact, understand, and constructively use the extraordinary information and communication resources in a modern world.

The path to this goal is through the GimmeMo Foundation:

Communicating and Connecting: The foundation creates a hip, attractive informational resource using popular media, marketing techniques, social networking, and celebrity to attract youth to the message.

Filtering and Aggregating: The foundation acts as a focal point for youth, filtering out the enormous amount of noise and overwhelming amount of negative information and influence present in the modern world.

Focusing and Showing: The foundation helps youth focus on values, and shows them benefits in healthy positive living.

Giving Voice: The foundation creates a platform, allowing youth a safe place for expression of the significance of their true character.

About GimmeMo World Tour

Disney's High School Musical star, Monique Coleman, has been appointed as the first ever United Nations Youth Champion, for the International Year of Youth. She is excited and dedicated to impact youth from around the world through this platform.

Throughout the year, Ms. Coleman will be traveling the globe to experience first hand the most pressing issues facing todays youth. She intends to partner with local governmental agencies and with NGO’s to promote the I.Y.Y and to conduct a series of youth events such as school visits, community service and artistic expressions. The goal is to bring together a rich tapestry of people who will address participants around the issues that affect them as well as highlight global youth achievements.

The purpose of these multi-faceted/interactive events is to to draw youth together and provide them with a voice; offer them inspiration, hope, and tools to cope with the many issues that are unique to them right now.

GIMMEMO SCHOOL TOUR 2010

Within six weeks, Monique Coleman toured over 40 schools and personally engaged over 50,000 students in the Southeastern region of the United States. Monique spoke to them on Educational and Social topics such as bullying and self-esteem,and opened dialog for educators to confront pressing issues in the schools.

GimmeMo has affected the lives of thousands, since the launch in September 2010. The GimmeMo Call To Action Tour prove to have the same effect, on a more personal level by addressing issues and providing solutions for them in a local tangible level.