Global Voice Youth Need Your HELP

This year the Global Voice Youth are traveling to Ireland and need your contributions to fund the trip. The total cost to provide 14 youth and 5 adult chaperones a service learning opportunity that will nurture citizenship and academic enrichment abroad as well as locally is $25,000.

So far the Youth have raised $8,000.

The Global Voice Youth need your donation small and large to help them raise $17,000.

Global Voice

Global Voice is an annual Community Chest program that began in 2003, runs August through May, and offers Storey and Lyon County youth leadership, citizenship, and academic enrichment opportunities by bridging education and community service. Global Voice promotes leadership development through service-learning, a methodology where learning happens in conjunction with volunteer service projects benefiting communities at home and abroad. Service Learning helps youth learn about themselves, their communities, and the world by working together.

This year 14 youth will travel to Ireland. The youth will research Ireland and develop a partnership with a local Irish nonprofit that helps address issues of concern in Ireland communities. Through the project, youth will work with Ireland youth addressing social justice issues. Project purposes intend to inspire learning, cultural exchange, and the importance of community service at home and abroad. Upon return from Ireland, the youth will use what they learned to improve their community and plan events for Global Youth Service Day, community enrichment projects, and share their learning experience with their peers.


MISSION
To act as a catalyst for change and a center for resources to help people help themselves, as together we build strong and healthy families and communities.

WHO WE ARE
Community Chest is a non-profit agency serving children and families in northwestern Nevada since 1991. We provide holistic solutions with the goal of building and sustaining strong families and communities. With the support of volunteers, agency staff, public and private revenue, Community Chest has been developing, offering and sponsoring services that make a difference in the lives of Nevada’s youth and families. We at Community Chest are brought together to do very important work.

WHAT WE DO
Community Chest provides a diverse range of services which include: 1) counseling, 2) family advocacy, 3) youth enrichment programs, and 4) employment placement assistance.

WHO DO WE SERVE
We primarily serve the residents of Storey and Lyon County, Nevada. However, our work often extends to other regions in Nevada and more recently, through programs like Global Voice , to regions outside of the United States.

WHERE IS COMMUNITY CHEST
We are located in Virginia City, Nevada. We operate out of a pink building at 991 South C Street in Virginia City.

 


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What began as an idea — to create an organization that would be a catalyst for change and a center for resources to help people help themselves — has evolved into a broad team of people and volunteers, who together, build healthy families and communities.