Enter the 2013 GenUp

T-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST!

Accepting submissions from

May 24th - June 7th

 

1^st place winner will receive $200 and a t-shirt

2^nd place winner will receive $50 and a t-shirt

3^rd place winner will receive the book Generation We and a t-shirt

 

How It Works

Generation Waking Up (GenUp) is seeking your help to design a t-shirt that speaks to the message of “a generation waking up” (?). Your design will inspire individuals, groups and organizations to get involved and help ignite a global movement of youth to bring forth a just, thriving, and sustainable world! Your design will be featured on our website and social media channels. Our GenUp community will help choose the winning design via Facebook.  

How to Participate 

To participate in this contest, you will be creating your design on www.customink.com.   Create a simple design that speaks about our work as a generation waking up (?) Save your design as [Full Name] and e-mail this design to team@generationwakingup.org After receiving your design, we will post your submission onto our blog and Facebook wall. Once your design is on our blog and Facebook, our community can starting to voting process by "liking" your design.

Requirements

• Please include our logo (?)
• Please use the tagline “Generation Waking Up” (?)
• Please use only 2-3 colors in your design
• Please have the design placement on front and/or back.

Timeline

• The contest will begin Friday, May 24^th.
• The last day to submit your t-shirt design is Friday, June 7^th.
• Voting is open once we post your design onto our Facebook page until Friday, June 7th.
• We will announce three winning designs by Wednesday, June 12th.

 

Review and Selection

Your design will be posted on our blog as well as Facebook. Our GenUp community will vote for your design by “liking” the images.

 

Notification and Prizes

Our team and the GenUp community will vote for the best t-shirt design to represent our work via Facebook.

1^st place winner will receive $200 and a t-shirt

2^nd place winner will receive $50 and a t-shirt

3^rd place winner will receive the book Generation We and a t-shirt

  For more information and questions, please contact us at team@generationwakingup.org.

After a smashing success of reaching our goal of 5,000 WakeUp participants for 2012, we are already off to an amazing start to 2013!! Just since the New Year, the GenUp network has inspired and engaged over 1,500 young people, with over 43 WakeUps worldwide. These are some highlights from what WakeUp facilitator across the country and world have made happen:

• Denver University - Denver, CO   Charlotte Vetter organized and hosted a WakeUp facilitated by Joshua Gorman and Cherine Badawi with 50 of her peers.
• Texas A & M University, -
• Berkeley High - Berkeley, CA   Barbara Jefferson & Valerie Love presented a fast-paced 1-hour GenUp experience to 100 Berkley High Leadership students.
• Auckland Girls Grammar School - Auckland, New Zealand   Sam Dyson & Nalini Singh facilitated a WakeUp for 25 students - they said it went great!
• Students for a Just and Stable Future Conference - Boston, MA   Dan Jubilier led an innovative, interactive WakeUp to strengthen bonds between students and bring a unifying and empowering narrative to this climate justice conference.
• St. Josephine’s Academy - Detroit, MI   Peg Downing, Cathy, and Mary Beth and Pauline led a WakeUp for 21 overwhelmingly enthusiastic high school students, 18 of whom are interested in learning how to facilitate.
• Woolman Semester - Berkeley, CA  David Brostein, Joshua Gorman and Valerie Love led a highly interactive, one-day WakeUp experience delving in deeply with bright, committed young changemakers as part of an alternative high school program.
• Agape Youth Revelation Conference - Los Angeles, CA  David Brostein, Destiny, Luis and Shireen led a powerful, spiritually vibrant WakeUp for Agape youth in Los Angeles. 
• Portland State University - Portland, OR   Sara Ennis, Dan Mahle, Porter Eichenlaub, Jane Carr comprised an all-star team leading a WakeUp with 28 students and community members as the kick-off before a one-day WakeUp facilitator training.

Thank you to all of you who poured your heart and energy into these and many other successful WakeUp events. Please send stories and photos to wakeup@generationwakingup.org so we can feature you in the next WakeUpdate!

If you have been wanting or waiting to host or lead a WakeUp, now is the time to plan a WakeUp for the summer or to kick off next school year! Email valerie@generationwakingup.org and we will support you in making it happen. With Deep Gratitude and Love, -Valerie, Joshua, Cherine, and the GenUp Team  

This summer, Generation Waking Up is seeking highly creative, smart, motivated, and skilled interns and summer fellows to join our team!  We are working to empower an entire generation of young people across the globe that is waking up, standing up, and taking action with allies of every generation, helping to bring forth a thriving, just, and sustainable way of life for all.   In our third year as an organization, we look forward to growing our programs, building sustainable operational systems and structures, and reaching and impacting more young people than ever.  Your purpose will be to work closely with the GenUp staff in one or more program/operational area to increase our overall organizational efficiency and impact.   We explicitly build into our work new ways to innovate, collaborate, empower, support each other, take care of ourselves, work hard, and have fun all along the way. If this calls to you, we may be a great fit!   For more information on how to apply, please visit:

[gallery] Every summer in North America, Generation Waking Up hosts an intensive seven-day leadership training that brings together a diverse group of young changemakers from campuses and communities across the continent, and from around the world. This year's GenUp Summer Leadership Training is taking place from July 28 - August 4 at the EarthRise Retreat Center at IONS located forty-five minutes north of San Francisco, California. Participants will build community, engage in experiential activities and skill-building, learn the art of story-telling for social change, and develop a broad range of leadership capacities to support their passions and changemaking projects. Interested in applying? Know a young person who would value this opportunity? Learn more and apply here!