On November 15 we will be launching Drop, a campaign dedicated to inspiring, empowering, and mobilizing young people to create and execute solutions to solve global water crises. The DROP campaign, will be kicked off with a DROP summit that is hosted and co-sponsored by the Communications, Design and Technology Department at Parsons, The New School for Design, in NYC on November 15, 2008.

For the Summit, YouthNoise is handpicking 75 socially minded and engaged youth leaders and aspiring social entrepreneurs to convene for a day of creative collaboration and innovative problem solving all around the issues of water access and conservation. Participants will receive a crash course in water issues and will proceed to form teams and develop projects to address the problems at hand. Workshops and exciting events will be led by a team of DROP Coalition partners from Food and Water Watch to UNICEF.

The Summit will also commence the 3-12 month long DROP internship. YouthNoise and it’s partners will be highly involved with the resulting projects and will continue to offer support and opportunities to participants as their projects grow into movements. One of these supportive efforts will begin with a fundraiser on the evening of November 15th, 2008.

We will be hosting this exciting fundraiser at the NYC Fire Museum on the evening of the Nov. 15th. The evening promises to be exciting performances from up and coming young artists Naia Kete and Martin Purtill, spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, informative installations from Parson’s New School of Design CDT Program, creative merchandise, drinks and much more. Doors will open at 8:30pm with a suggested donation of $15. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to these campaigns. And don’t fret- it will be a bottled water free event! You can RSVP and receive a ticket for a free cocktail, get the address and directions, and obtain more information at www.youthnoise.com/drop/rsvp.

We would love to invite you and the rest of your staff to this event, and to support the young people in their water campaign endeavors. This evening will prove to be an exciting one, and we look forward having your involvement. If you have further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

YouthNoise is looking for a diverse, engaged group of people to join our Leadership Council. The questions below are used to get to know you a little bit better, so please answer them honestly! If you have any questions, feel free to contact mark@youthnoise.org.

•Your Name and E-mail:

•Your gender (optional): •Your age:

•Your ethnicity (optional): •Your location (city and state):

•Are you currently a student? If so, where? If you are a college student or recent graduate, what is your major?


•In regards to working with a web-based organization which one committee is the MOST interesting to you (complete descriptions of each committee’s scope of work can be found above):

Marketing & Media

Program & Content

Technology & Design

Based on your selection above, do you have any specific expertise or work experience in that area? Tell us about it:


•List any organizations you are involved with:


* Briefly list your past volunteer or civic engagement experience:


* Please provide 2-3 character or academic references (with phone numbers and/or email addresses):


•What causes (environment, health, human rights, politics, etc) do you care about the most? Why?


* Who is one role model you look up to (past or present, famous or not) and why?


* How, if at all, are you involved with YouthNoise (daily visitor, summit participant, not a member, etc)? If you are not currently a member, why do you want to be involved with us? If you do have experience with YouthNoise, why do you want to get more involved? Your YN username:


Please email this application to internships@youthnoise.org attn: YNLC , fax this application to (415) 346-8464, or mail it to:

Mark Hawkins, YouthNoise
1255 Post Street Suite #1120
San Francisco, CA 9410

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