Our Community Members
“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.”
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller
Grow Your World's model aims to utilize the abundance of human beings and organizations to recreate the support that defines Community. Our small-group design aims to create ways for more individuals to be involved for shorter periods of time, allowing youth to get supported in meaningful, fun and realistic ways.
Our goal is to have diverse involvement at every level of our organization to maximize our capacity to support all communities' needs and potential. Learn more below about Grow Your World community roles and ways to get involved.
Our goal is to have diverse involvement at every level of our organization to maximize our capacity to support all communities' needs and potential. Learn more below about Grow Your World community roles and ways to get involved.
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Way Makers"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
- Margaret Mead "Each of us has a spark of life in us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in on another." - Kenny Ausubel Way Makers are young adults in the community who work directly with the young people at the center of Grow Your World, transporting them around the community and modelling community engagement and active learning. They will also support youth with academics, and provide coaching and mentoring on a daily basis during and in between activities. Way Makers will receive professional development and support to navigate situations that arise during the program.
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Mentors"The key to being a good mentor is to help people become more of who they already are -- not make them more like you."
- Suze Orman Community Mentors share professional skills and personal hobbies that bring joy to their own lives with four middle schoolers and their facilitator via hands-on experiences lasting one hour or more. By sharing activities they find joyful, Mentors model myriad ways to be contributing community members and open young people's eyes to professional possibilities. These workshops are also times where younger and older people get to come together and learn from and with each other, getting to know one another through and beyond the activity at hand.
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Administrators + Coordinators“You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”
- Buckminster Fuller Our Program Administrators and Coordinators support Grow Your World programming in many ways, building relationships with community partners, providing support and planning professional development opportunities for our facilitators, and ensuring the safety and flexibility of program operations.
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Families"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."
- Bruce Lee Families are partners and guides in how to best support young people. Families are invited to monthly potlucks to hear what youth have been up to, to provide input in the ongoing development of the program, and to learn alongside us. We are grateful to families for sharing their wisdom and for being game to join us in growing our worlds.
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Advisors"Great leaders surround themselves with esteemed advisors."
- R.E. Shockley Our Community Advisory Board comes from a variety of backgrounds and is here to ensure that our program aligns with the values of the many communities we work with in the Triangle and is on the cutting edge of culture and community development and engagement. Our advisors bring their lives and expertise in a variety of areas, including program and systems design, economics, conflict resolution, youth enrichment and aging, among other fields.
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Elders"A lot of people have gone further than they thought because someone else thought they could."
- Unknown Grow Your World utilizes the wisdom of Community Elders to ensure that our program is steeped in the wisdom from trusted community leaders' experience. We also count on our Elders to show up for us, providing encouragement and advice when times get tough.
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Professional Development"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."
- Mark Twain We seek support and expertise from researchers, educators, professionals and consultants in a wide variety of theories and tools to support Grow Your World implementation. We choose professional developers who align with our values and support our programming staff and community in getting closer to our vision.
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