gang for good!

A new planetary vision

Empower and give voice to students and youth on both

sides of the border.

Our Mission• To Create Mexico’s Promise (AN

ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH)• www.americaspromise.org• This will seek TA from General Powell

toward this end to the State of JALISCO, MEXICO & beyond.

The 5 Promises are:• Caring Adults as Mentor’s• Safe Places with structured activities during

nonschool hours.• Healthy Start and tools for good future.• Marketable Skills through effective education• Opportunity to serve: as leaders & Service

Learning strategy.

• This proposed as a Peso’s In The Pocket! & LISTEN TO THE FUTURE! THEME as a town by town YOUTH POWER! Program.

Building a movement….• “A idea whose time has come!”• This presentation speaks to a project to

which is like that of building a boat while sailing it.

• The intent is to seek your own participation in it’s organizational design and development.

• Action! / Reaction!

Real Education Serves Everyone• “The end of all education should surely be service to

others” Cesar E. ChavezThe Cesar E. Chavez CommunityAction Center exists at San JoseState.www.as.sjsu.edu/cccac

We seek to bring to the Lake Side Area inJalisco the resource of the following presentationwill create a “local working group”.

“CommUnity Conversation’s”• Anyone of many local Lake

Chapala organizations could but hold a future “core group” community conversation to explore that simple idea of building a project on the Legacy of both Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar E. Chavez.

A Gang For Good!• The idea is that in the organization

development a working group will create both

• SENIOR POWER & YOUTH POWER• That everyone is a asset for they

have vision….and idea’s for social justice.

A King/Chavez Team• The Working

Group

A seed has been planted• The National

Hispanic University

This is our goal:• The passage of • the National &

California Dream Act!

• Action Research and Action Steps toward social justice for all.

Our Vision…• To establish a neighborhood new

positive youth development action plan based on a future Grupo Amistad presentation.

• Key to our vision is to build on the good idea’s and that to which exist’s now.

Draft web presence….• Google: National Youth Union• Thanks to Adam Fletcher• Or www.nationalyouthunion.org• The next step is a concept paper • “In the future all youth will come

together to make this a better world”

The Grupo Amistad Vision….• Positive Youth Development• Use of the America’s Promise• University of Promise• Community of Promise• King/Chavez Community

Conversations • Nation in name but local in scope:

National Youth Union

Key: Dr. King’S Legacy

Planatary common ground for all………

The focus on the town of San Juan Cosala in Jalisco, Mexico.• Peso’s In The Pocket!• Building on the Chapala Society• Grupo Amistad Sur • Seeking grassroots leadership for

that “bridge building” with lap top computers.

The California Grey Bears….the “seed”.

Peso’s In The Pocket• This is the simple idea of whatwhat was spoken by Carlos SimnsIn regard to poverty:“It is not enough to give a man aFish, or as was said to “teach himto Fish” what we need to do is toteach him to sell the fish so he can buy

what he wants to eat.

Our strategy is ongoing….• But one - at a time!• By phone and e-mail• Have selected a non-profit to move forward the vision. They are a USA small grass roots in which the model of Grupo Amistad can grow as

in Jalisco they serve 18 towns now….what I would call “bridge building”.

The task ahead:• Empower the leadership for theSan Juan Alliance now in placeAnd explore office space for theneeded action steps ahead.

The transfer of knowledge andto seek feedback and insights ofStakeholders like yourself.

Senior’s Helping Senior’s• Our Vision• Senior Power!• “Community

Conversations” to speak to the issue of what we can do to better meet the needs of children, youth, and families.

Our intent:• To recreate the “Los Charales” as a

path toward moving forward the legacies of both Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar E. Chavez.

• To start with his vision:• “In the future all youth will come

together to make this a better world”• Using the model of service learning and

the King/Chavez Issue Paper as our cornerstone for a local initiative.

Learning from the past…

Future San Juan Leaders in 2008!

This is your invitation!• It takes but one to make a

difference….be the one!• Send to the Santa Cruz California Office

your contact information for our data base.

• Goals2025@aol.com• Call us anytime:• 831 479 9596• Open up new possibilities with your

participation and human resource.

No funding…No planning grant but a good vision.• Our office is thanks to

the Reyes Family from Oax. to which without that support would be no Grupo Amistad possibilities.

• Thank you Roberto Reyes and may we see Ruben and Jimmy & all your family of “pee wee’s” the future leaders for Santa Cruz.

Our office space…..