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Global Giving http://tigurl.org/ggpd In September, TIGed launched a fundraising campaign for scholarships to support educators in developing countries to participate in our professional development e-courses. This was made possible through a relationship with GlobalGiving, an online fundraising portal available to charitable organisations around the world. Last year we raised nearly $5,000 - enough to support 20 educators to take our e-courses. Our fundraising efforts also provide scholarships to educators under the age of 30 in developing countries through Microsoft's Give for Youth portal. Partnerships and Initiatives Education Fast Forward Global Encounters http://prometheanplanet.com http://encounters.tigweb.org Education Fast Forward, a debate series offered by Promethean and Cisco, connects thought leaders from around the world on pressing issues related to education through the use of Cisco TelePresence technology. 2012 was the first year that youth voices were included in the debate through a collaboration with TakingITGlobal. 25 diverse youth from 12 countries shared their thoughts on learner voice and global peace after being selected through a TIGed contest, and TakingITGlobal co-founder Michael Furdyk provided a keynote for the event alongside Jeremy Gilley, founder of Peace One Day. In collaboration with The Centre for Global Education, Global Encounters is a series of international student video conferences that connect students to peers, speakers, and mentors from around the world to learn about global issues and challenges. Together, we hosted 17 conferences on topics that included women's rights, child soldiers and armed conflict, revolution in the Middle East, mental health, HIV and AIDS, and climate change, engaging approximately 5,800 students. Each conference included a live event, preceded by a week-long online program of activities through which students learned about the topics at hand, collaborated with one another, and received mentorship from subject-matter experts. Of particular note is COP-Under 18, a youth conference held leading up to COP18 in Doha, Qatar. Participating students collaborated on a position paper of recommendations for environmental policymakers. This project culminated with two participants travelling to Doha to attend COP18. Download the position paper here: http://tigurl.org/tcxmhf " lobal Encounters represents an archetype of G grassroots democracy." COOL 2.0 http://cool.greenlearning.ca — Senator Grant Mitchell from the Alberta Liberal party (Mentor in our Global Encounters "COP-Under18" conference). TIGed teamed up with Green Learning to create COOL 2.0, a resource database of environmental education activities in science, social studies, economics, language arts, technology, and more. The searchable database contains lesson plans, videos, research and data, and collaborative projects that are also cross-posted to the TIGed site. TakingITGlobal Annual Report 2012 17