Coming Up at GNG
See what’s on the burner for the upcoming school year:

Fall 2007:
October
- PULSE – Future of America
- Int’l PULSE – Arab World and U.S. (Egypt)
- PULSE – Darfur
November
- PULSE – Future of Energy
- PULSE – Threat of Nuclear Weapons
December
- Int’l PULSE – Africa (TBD)
- PULSE – Landmines

Spring 2008:
January
- Int’l PULSE – Improving Race Relations
- PULSE – Human Rights in Burma
February
- Int’l PULSE – Arab World and U.S.
- PULSE – Cluster Bombs
- PULSE – Access to Water
March
- PULSE – School Violence
- PULSE – Future of America
April/May
- Int’l Year-End Program (country TBD)


Polycom continues support with $25,000 “Challenge Grant”
Polycom, Inc. just ratcheted up its support for Global Nomads Group with a new $25,000 “Challenge Grant,” a campaign to challenge corporations,
foundations, and individuals to match its contribution dollar-for-dollar. This grant helped bring Project UGANDA to fruition in late May, and we hope it encourages like-minded organizations to follow suit and help fund our upcoming cross-cultural programs.


Give to GNG
Global Nomads Group needs your support. As we expand our programs and make even more programs available, please consider making a contribution of any size. You can make a check out to Global Nomads Group and send it to the following address:

Global Nomads Group
381 Broadway, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10013

Thank you very much for your continued interest in and support of GNG.
Behind the Screens

David Macquart
Co-founder and Director of Programs

What are you reading? What Is the What by Dave Eggers, Blindness by José Saramago.

What was your best moment at GNG during the past year? Dancing at a wedding celebration in Northern Uganda.

What’s your least favorite food? Lamb heart. Fortunately, there aren’t many opportunities to eat this delicacy in NYC.

What animal are you most like? A chimpanzee. Chris said I look like one…


Chris Plutte
Co-founder and Director of Production

What are you reading? I was reading What Is the What until David stole it from my desk.

What’s your funniest/most embarrassing/most entertaining moment while traveling abroad? Watching David trying to tell a pharmacist in Jordan that he had worms.

What’s your favorite song of all time? “This Must Be the Place” by Talking Heads.

What was your best moment at GNG this past year? Watching Archbishop Desmond Tutu sharing his knowledge with GNG students at the end of our CURRENTS program.


Joanna Cyprys
Post-Production Coordinator

What are you reading? Suze Orman’s Women and Money.

What’s your funniest/most embarrassing/most entertaining moment while traveling abroad? I always get embarrassed when I forget to take off my shoes before entering people’s homes.

If you could live in any country at any time in history, where and when would it be? Paris, France, in the 1800s.

What’s your least favorite food? Anything that once had eyes or still does!


Jonathan Giesen
Co-founder

What are you reading? The True Believer by Eric Hoffer; The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham; Lovely Green Eyes by Arnost Lustig.

What advice would you give to young people wanting to make a difference? Hasta la Victoria, Siempre!

If you could live in any country at any time in history, where and when would it be? 11th Century Denmark en route to the Bosporus.

What’s your least favorite food? I think it would have to be eyeballs.


Mark von Sponeck
Co-founder

What’s your funniest/most embarrassing/most entertaining moment while traveling abroad? Hmmm, let’s add intimidating: Being taken to a room in the Baghdad airport surrounded by soldiers with AK-47s..a little nervewracking, but I’m proud to let GNG donors know that I refused to pay a single bribe!

What was your best moment at GNG this past year? Difficult to say, but it is most often seeing the effects of a GNG program on those involved. What an enlightening moment when we heard that students in the U.S. and Canada raised money for a remote school in Northern Uganda that has no electricity.

What’s your least favorite food? I will eat anything (including a cockroach, which I did in China) but one thing which I really have difficulty eating is liver.

 
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