A vote is held each spring to select a project to fund in the focus country of the year.
During this time students from each ODW member school should vote for
the proposal they believe will most effectively help their peers in
this year's focus country. Your votes must be submitted online by 4 PM Eastern time
on the final day of voting. Check out our Calendar for dates the vote will occur.
In each school, you can have as many students vote as want to
participate. The vote is a good way to make other students in your
school aware of what you are doing in ODW. If they get interested,
they may be willing to help on your workday.
After students have voted at your school, count up the votes and
enter them in the "It's Time to Vote!"
section of the ODW web site. This section will only be active during
the voting period and will be disabled at all other times.
Things to Think About when Deciding on a Project
To help decide which projects are the most likely to be effective,
it is often helpful to use guidelines like other grantmaking
organizations do. The International Youth Foundation's project
selection criteria are a good place to
start. You may also want to check out their
"Youth Programs that Work"
web page.
El Salvador Project Proposals - 1999-2000
These project proposals were submitted for poject selection in El Salvador in 1999-2000. For your
convenience we have provided a very short summary of each project
below. If the proposal was submitted in electronic format, we have
provided a link to the file as well. The winning proposal was submitted by Salesian Missions.
- CARE - Growing by Learning by Growing
Project Focus - Setting up a learning farm for practical and theoretical training in agriculture, animal husbandry, and micro-enterprise.
- Cooperative Housing Foundation - Youth Environmental Project
Project Focus - Engage young people in learning and leadership through activities that restore environmental systems.
- Companion Community Development Alternatives - Arts and Education with Rural Youth
Project Focus - To train needed schoolteachers in rural northern areas and engage rural youth in artistic and cultural activities
- Co-partners of Campesinas - Operation Graduate
Project Focus - To provide transportation and supplies to 250 students to complete additional years of education that are not available in their rural communities.
- Hope Worldwide - Because you've got a life to LIVE! (HIV prevention)
Project Focus - Education program to prevent HIV infection among teenagers.
- Human Relief Organization - Sports and Young Citizens
Project Focus - To reduce the juvenile crime rate in certain neighborhoods by building playgrounds and engaging youth in community activities.
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association - International Youth Program
Project Focus - To have U.S. youth install solar electrification technology in two rural schools that are currently without electricity.
- Salesian Missions - Training Children Victims of War for Jobs
Project Focus - To rescue orphans and victims of Salvador's civil war and re-integrate them into society to become productive citizens.
- World Vision - Surgimineto de la Esperanza (Emerging Hope)
Project Focus - Increasing educational opportunities for impoverished youth by providing student loans.
|
