FeelGood Annual Hunger and Leadership Summit

FeelGood 2009 Leadership &  Hunger Summit:

FeelGood's 4^th Annual Leadership & Hunger Summit will be an intense weekend of hunger education and leadership development for FeelGood's finest student leaders. 100 FeelGood students from across the country will gather in New York City from October 23-25 to strengthen the FeelGood community, build their leadership capacity, set goals, share best practices and innovate for the sustainable end of hunger. The students will be joining activists from around the world on Saturday for special presentation on The Hunger Project's empowerment strategies in Africa, South Asia, South America and Mexico and will walk away with a deep understanding of empowerment, gender-focused development strategies. Additionally, the students will take this unique opportunity to network with distinguished professionals from a myriad of fields.

Leadership Development: Friday Evening, Saturday morning and all day Sunday, FeelGood students will hear from social entrepreneurs and leaders in the non-profit field (Robert Egger from DC Central Kitchen joined us in 2008). They will also participate in 6 workshops concentrated on personal growth, leadership, goal setting, education and overcoming the unique obstacles each student faces. The Leadership Development portion of the weekend is intended to equip the students with tools and resources to be leaders for change on their respective campuses.

Africa Prize Gala: As a special celebration of the students' hard work and leadership throughout the school year, FeelGood will be inviting all Hunger Summit attendees to the The Hunger Project's Annual Gala - The Africa Prize for Leadership. FeelGood students, along with 1,000 diplomats, dignitaries and Hunger Project supporters from 24 countries around the world will come together to celebrate the impact of The Hunger Project's strategies for the end of hunger and abject poverty. Tickets to this black tie event are $250. FeelGood will be covering tickets for all students attending the Hunger Summit.

Goals: The goals of our 4^th Annual Leadership & Hunger Summit are: 1) deepen our students' commitment to the end of hunger, 2) strengthen their understanding of the root causes and key solutions to ending hunger, 3) give them tools to be effective leaders in the fight against hunger on their university campuses and in their professional lives, 4) create community and collaboration across all of our chapters 5) empower each student to set goals for their chapter for the coming school year, 6) create a strategic plan for achieving those goals, 7) Improve their communication of FeelGood's purpose to: end hunger and create a generation of changemakers.