Gala is back…and in a cocktail format this year with even more fun and mingling!

Our Gala brings together over 200 community leaders, young professionals, supporters and donors in celebration of exceptional young leaders and their community projects through the Young Agents Awards.

Hosted by Citytv Breakfast Television’s Riaz Meghji, the evening will include a cocktail reception, silent auction, young agents awards and amazing entertainment by youth performers such as the Woman’s Drum Circle from the Urban Native Youth Association (UNYA).

Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
Time: 6:30 …

Want to learn about running a growing non-profit while creating meaningful social change? Interested in gaining valuable experience in a unique, youth-driven work environment? Global Agents for Change is currently recruiting volunteers for the following positions:

• Assistant Manager – Operations (Internship)
• Communications Coordinator
• Communications Liaison, Young Agents
• Communications Liaison, Riding to Break the Cycle

More information on each position is available below.

Please send your resume and a short statement of interest to volunteer@globalafc.org by Monday, February 8th.

Assistant Manager – Operations (Internship)

Liaising with the President and …

I just came back from a very fulfilling two-week bike ride across Cambodia. A group of us participated in the Riding to Break the Cycle: Cambodia 2010 tour with Global Agents for Change in partnership with PEPY to fundraise for the two organizations.

On a personal level, this trip was a chance for me to at least have a preview of development work since I had never seen any projects first-hand. I had only read articles of development work and criticisms of the approaches of …

Check out this video produced by 2009 Europe tour rider to document her unique summer co-op experience with Global AFC!

Hello from Phnom Penh!!!!

Here’s a real quick blog post and apologies that I couldn’t get many up during the trip so far. We’ve just had such an action packed schedule of visiting various different NGO’s and other cultural activities. Can’t wait to do more postings when I’m back.
It’s been a couple hot days of cycling since we’ve arrived in Siem Reap, but the journey has been epic! As our Global Agents for Change group is smaller, we joined up with a larger group of …

Dear friends and family (to those of you who do not consider yourself close enough to me to be friend or family, know that I am ever open to friendship and I consider every human being family at some level. Are you human? Good, let’s continue…)

I just returned from three months in Europe, two of them spent with an energetic and sometimes intense group of young people, cycling from Amsterdam to Istanbul. For those interested, a bit more about the trip itself is in the …

The Europe 2009 riders take a few minutes to say thank you.

Here are the video highlights from the last week of the Europe 2009 tour.

It’s official; Global Agents for Change’s Europe tour 2009 is now over. WE ALL MADE IT TO ISTANBUL! Looking back at the last two months is really just a blur of memories that haven’t even begun to make sense yet. I am willing to bet that most of us will still be figuring out exactly what we have gained from the tour for a long time to come yet. The fact every rider made it is really testament our teamwork and ability to overcome any …

Written by Gala August 20, 2009

a split second decision this morning has decided that most of the agents are adding an additional twelfth country to the ride to break the cycle europe tour. and the winner is… greece! apparently mezek, our final sleep spot in bulgaria (just outside svelingrad) is about 15k from the greek border, so the decision was made to make it a tri border cross day. spending the rest of our leva at a cafe here in wonderful mezek with the amazing …