Good day! I am raising $ 50,000for America's and Europe's finest youth leaders

to go to IYONS, the summit for youth organizations, held in Chennai, India, on 24-6 July 2015. IYONS unites changemakers below 35 from 120+ countries to share their model solutions for global challenges.

As director of Youth-LeadeR (YL), I bring in the youngest, the spectacular teens, with model solutions replicable by young people everywhere - also at school.

As a team, we are bringing world-class action to IYONS, reach to media and schools, even unite our delegates for a 1-week retreat for co-creating a new leadership program geared for schools in 18 languages. We have full support from IYONS, doors are opening on all sides. It's huge!

All the kids need to do is to - GET THERE !

I count on you to help them!

Thank you!

CONTENTS

3 What We Need

4 Who is Eric?

5 IYONS

6 N. American Youth Leaders

9 European Youth Leaders

10 International Youth Leaders

11 Our Contribution to IYONS

12 The Youth-LeadeR Camp

13 Our Program

14 Work-meetings

15 Post-IYONS YL Immersion

16 Funders & Sponsors

18 Mobilize Your School

19 Perks

20 Bank Details & Paypal

21 Follow-up in Your City

22 Fundraiser for Babar Ali

23 Appendix: Youth Profiles

What We Need

AIR TRAVEL

to Chennai, India, from USA // Canada // Europe

free seats or

$1,500 per youth / parent, incl. visa

YOUTH-LEADER CAMP at IYONS

$5,000 to fully set up and equip the YL ZONE

• interactive exhibit for schools

• stands for Youth Leaders

• YL Starter Sets for schools

• promotional media and merchandise

WHO IS ERIC?

Eric is known as founder of YOUTH-LEADER (YL), a platform uniting dozens of the world's finest teen and adult changemakers for making their role models, stories, solutions and live services available to our global young generation at school in 18 languages.

His benchmark:- wildly successful solution- replicable by youth- well documented online- accessible via skype

Interweaving best practices at the intersection of positive change, media and education, Eric has designed a game changer for connecting huma-nity's leading changemaking knowledge into schools, youth taking these solutions to scale, with many benefits for learning culture, people, planet and the young people's personal paths.

Eric always dreamt of uniting the teenage Gandhis of today for amplifying each other's quests and wielding YL to the fullest. When asked to serve as IYONS European & North American representative, he knew the opportunity had come. IYONS in INDIA offers the perfect stage: a disruptive experience, low cost and access to a dynamically shifting subcontinent of one billion people eager for innovation.

For full info on YL, view the Portfolio at www.youth-leader.org.

REFERENCESImages & Voices of Hope Award 2012

Round Table for the Implementation of the UNITED NATIONS Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ESD. UNESCO

re:imagine learning challenge, Pacemaker

Has led YL Teams India & Youth Rising for Peace to win UNITED NATIONS Online Volunteering Awards 2010 & 2012

IYONS

Dreamed up by Abdul Ghani, young businessman turned social justice activist, supported by mentors

● Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi

● Former „The People's“ President Dr. Abdul Kalam

IYONS is a world-premiere 'outside the box' event, designed by young positive change enthusiasts open to learn and to include everything that makes sense.

This gives us unique opportunity to co-shape the event with our finest contents and methods

We are using this to the fullest!

First of all, meet the young people that we ask you to help us fly in.

„The idea is not to turn us into your kind of adults.

But into better adults than you have been.“

North American Youth Leaders

Impressed by the transformative power of these teenagers, the IYONS board has adapted their schedule to include all nominated North American Youth Leaders in the main program, with

speech to the global assembly

official workshops

side events in the Youth Leader Camp

Adora Svitak – 'intellectual royalty' / 'smartest kid on the planet'

Adora elegantly deconstructs the negative worldview held about youth and our future, and helps us re-define ourselves and our future by our own image and values - to be better adults than former generations.

Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh Martinez – Earth Guardians

Xiuh is the voice of his generation – on climate cange, lifestyle and native identity. He has stopped fracking, pesticides, coal ash, sues the government, has chapters on six continents, stars in many films, his Kid Warrior portrait film goes viral, he opens UN summits, jams with spiritual leaders, rocks festivals with Earth Guardians Hip Hop...

Earth Guardians – Concert

The genuine spirit of the Change Generation in powerful Hip Hop!

„Always act from a place of LOVE.

If we put our hearts and minds together, we can change our entire nation.“

Chloe Maxmin – Divest Harvard / First Here Then Everywhere

The driving mind of the world's most prominent divestment campaign, inspiring hundreds of colleges, companies and churches to divest hun-dreds of billions of dollars from fossil fuels and stigmatizing the industry.

Robyn Hamlyn – Water Warriors 'Blue Community Resolution'

This 13 year old has made 27 Canadian cities pass a 3-pronged reso-lution banning bottled water, keeping it public, making it a human right.

Rhiannon Tomtishen – Project Orangs

Girl Scouts Rhiannon and Madi forced the iconic organization to drop conflict palm oil from its famous cookies - holding GS responsible for rainforest destruction, species extinction, human abuses and climate change. GS adopted a policy, followed by ABC Bakers, Kellogg's, and Wilmar, carrier of half the world's palm oil, to establish the trade industry's leading transparency mechanism.

Rachel Parent – Kids Right To Know

Canada's face for GMO labelling and proper scientific studies on long-term effects on the health of humans, animals and ecosystems. Her epic tv debate making tv bully Kevin O'Leary switch to pro-GMO labelling has 5+ mio views. She has confronted the Minister of Health with global studies of GMO ag impacts, birth defects through gly-phosate, spoken at Parliament as a guest of honor in support of a GMO-labelling bill.

Cassandra Lin – Turn Grease Into Fuel (T-G-I-F)

Cassandra's group of 5th graders introduced recycling of used cooking oils to biofuel. Serving 150 restaurants, she has donated $150,000 of profit to social causes and changed policies. At IYONS, Cassandra now trains youth and adults to do the same!

„Banish the words hopeless and impossible from your vocabulary.

We CAN create a world of peace and abundance for all!“

Avalon Theisen – Conserve it Forward

Known as Frog Fairy, citizen scientist, activist and educator on swamps as habitats and water reserves, indicator species, creating urban mini-habitats and replacing vivisection with digital alternatives, Avalon is now a lead 'Cowspiracy Secret' Film Ambassador, showing how simple changes to our daily diet can reduce climate change by 50%!

Emma & Julia Mogus – Books With no Bounds

Learning about devastating injustice to Aboriginal children (up to five years behind in reading and 30% suicide rate at schools), Emma and Julia started book drives to bring hope, vision, joy and learning. Two years later, they have served 49 communities with 77,000 good books, changed worldview among their generation, reached and involved 30 million people and built healing bridges across historic divides. At IYONS, Emma shows how each of us can replicate the badly needed program in 100 countries.

WHAT A LINE UP !

Help us bring them all into one event, into one space!

as speakers

with several workshops each

The Youth-LeadeR Camp

These Hero/ines are usually the celebrity speaker of an event. They've never shared a stage. Until NOW!

European Youth Leaders

Oliwia Borkowska – (POLAND)

EU Citizen Campaign for making Ecocide a Crime

Erosion of natural resources, ecosystem pollution and collapse naturally lead to loss of inner and outer peace, thus to violent conflict on personal, domestic, communal, national and international levels. Since the 1970's, the UNITED NATIONS envisioned making Ecocide the 5th Crime Against Peace at the International Criminal Court ICC, holding individuals perso-nally accountable, like for genocide. The initiative is gaining momentum on all levels. Several countries have included ecocide in national law, the EU Citizens Initiative is gathering 1 million voices to put it on the EU table. Oliwia will present the simple, powerful legal framework.

Maja Horvat - Solayea (SLOVENIA)

Maja is also a „make ecocide a crime“ campaigner, but also represents Solayea, an organization at the intersection of the feminine, holistic approach to life and reponsible leadership.

Laura Kaestele – Gaia University (GERMANY)

Laura is a pioneer in inner, communal, global and natural permaculture, with leadership experience in 'Generation Wake Up' Trainings and 'Art of Hosting' large group co-creative collaboration methods.

More European nominations pending

„We are reclaiming our streets and public spaces to be safe and welcoming for girls and women again.

This is our home.

All of us have the right to feel safe.“

International Youth-Leaders

Babar Ali – The Youngest Headmaster in the World (INDIA)

At age 9, Babar began teaching peers too poor to attend school what he had learned in the morning. His mission soon evolved into a full-fledged school with adult volunteers, serving 1,000 students in his parents' back-yard, many of which completed a high school degree and went on to col-lege. Some are now teachers at his newly built school.

Hassan Saeed – Open Doors Literacy Project (PAKISTAN)

For 100 days, Hassan takes the bus to visit rural villages to teach groups of girls to read and write in the safety of their homes. Even gun threats did not stop him. In just 100 days, the girls' lives change dramatically: they are not married away, read the news, study and open small shops.

Bilsan Ahmad – YOUTH-LEADER Syria (SYRIA)

Bilsan changes our worldview about Syria. With a full picture of the sides of conflict, functional parts of the country, vibrant life and thriving youth organizations, everyone fired up to get involved can do so!

Usha Vishwakarma – The Red Brigade Lucknow (INDIA)

The famous women self-defense group against sexual assault. Living under open skies in the slums of Lucknow, these coura-geous young rape survivors patrol the streets, save and heal their peers, pressure police to hold rapists and murders accountable and train a generation of girls to protect their lives from sick men. Usha freshens us up with 'live screams, beats and smashes'. Rock'n'roll! You Go, Grrrlz!

World-Premiere

This is the most powerful crowd of teen changemakers united in one place, ever!

It is like a full-scale event in the event!

Our Contributions to IYONS

Each youth has a solution replicable by youth, even and especially at school, as student clubs.

Each is personally available, trains, cooperates.

The YOUTH LEADER CAMP upgrades IYONS with a powerful speace of learning and interaction.

This has value

✔ for IYONS

✔ for interaction with media, schools,

changemakers

✔ for the Youth

✔ for Youth-LeadeR

✔ for future YL Events

in India, Europe, North America and the world

The Youth LeadeR Camp

A large space right next to the main auditorium

12 stands and YL Lounge

Exhibit Wall of 48 Youth Leaders

Life-sized posters of the YL's at IYONS

Babar Ali's 'Home of Joyful Learning' Poster Exhibit

Emma's 'Books With no Bounds' Comic Poster Exhibit

YL Starter Sets for Schools, petitions and campaigns

A rich program

Self-guided multimedia exhibition for school classes

30+ workshops and side events

Presentations, Interviews, Photoshoots, Films

Skype Sessions with hero/ines & YL partner schools

View a DRAFT of our program on the next page.

Long-term value

Our presence at IYONS guarantees long-term tangible impact for critical regions with Field Partners determined to include YL programs in their work and spread YL in their country.

These work meetings alone justify the travel costs.

Meetings with Field Partners

Project and Strategic Collaboration

✔ IYONS, for reach into India's education system

✔ Afghanistan's major youth networks

✔ YL Syria, connected nationwide

✔ Indian village education and development ventures with strong ties to EU programs

✔ Nepali relief organizations

✔ Girl and women empowerment

School Collaboration on YL Programs

✔ with Loyola College (7,000 students)

Media Interviews

✔ with TV programs about hero/ines

World-Premiere

AFTER IYONS,we spend an extra week

withYouth-LeadeRsThe mom's

withIndian changemakersIndian schoolsIndian youthIndian tv and radio

YOUTH-LEADER Immersion Week

We unite the Youth Leaders for a full week of

full day presentation at famous Loyola College

campfire nights, open dialogue, play, friendships

project visits, eco-cultural program, Auroville city

school presentations & Earth Guardians concert

meeting with Indian youth and changemakers

media work, interviews and filming

Our goals

✔ share, bond, collaborate under the banner of YL

✔ use YL to the fullest to scale their quests

✔ mobilize their resource, community, user network

➔ co-shape our „Change Generation Rising“ leadership program

✔ kick-off YL and CG Rising India!

World Class Value

* At only $1,500 per person *

First time meeting, sharing and bonding among America's finest youth leaders with concrete transformational solutions

Pre-/post-event national outreach to schools and the IYONs community

3 day major outreach with 15 mega model solutions to a global activist audience with high replication potential

An event IN the event, a model for future collaboration in North America

Focal point for „youth“ and „school“ at the IYONS venue

Interactive exhibit / learning environment for visiting schools

Work meetings with major networks

Vivid school presentations for start of nationwide YL India campaign

+ YL Immersion for co-designing a stellar leadership program for schools globally, in 18 languages

Strong media presence + film team

LET'S ACT TOGETHER !

Help us empower our young generation at to school evoke changes just like us!

$ 1,500 for your hero/ine

$ 5,000 for the YOUTH CAMP

$ 5,000 for the YL IMMERSION

or any amount that you can contribute

FUNDING DONATIONS SPONSORING

Talk to us to best align your help with your focus cause, topic, region, for eventual short- or long-term colla-boration and favorite perks.

DONORS Donate any sum to our Fund or unlock travel for your favorite hero/ines!

PARTNER SCHOOLS Send your Hero/ine to IYONS for $ 1,500Receive exciting perks & a post-IYONS presentation!

PHILANTHR. CLUBS // CITY COUNCILS Fund a Hero/ine of your city, state or focus topic;$1,500 or $3,000 for the accompanying parent

SPONSORS : BECOME OFFICIAL IYONS

AIRLINE PARTNER Free seats for our youth

YOUTH PARTNER $ 10,000 – 50,000 for our youth travel costs

EDUCATION PARTNER $ 5,000 for media sets distributed at IYONS

YOUTH LEADER CAMP PARTNER $ 5,000 for media, prints, program

YOUTH LEADER IMMERSION PARTNER $ 10,000 for an all incl. week for our 20 people

MOBILIZE YOUR SCHOOL

$ 1-2 per student sends your city's, state's or country's hero/ine to IYONS

to share their example to scale their initiative to make tremendous

steps forward

Download the media set from our website today

USE OUR FREE POSTER SET and our videos to inspire students to join in. Present in class, create an exhibit, organize a stand, get your favorite teachers to arrange a school presentation!

YOUR SCHOOL BENEFITS

1. „Your“ Youth-LeadeR gives you an exciting account of the IYONs EXPERIENCE at school or via Skype

2. We will help equip every class with YL Starter Sets

3. Inspired students / clubs join our global community

QUESTIONS? Contact schools@youth-leader.org

PERKS DONORS Exclusive post-IYONS storytelling video conference.$1,000: YL Skype Session for a school of your choice.

PARTNER SCHOOLS Post-IYONS video conference on our experience.Help to get all classes equipped with YL Starter Sets.Join Change Generation Rising leadership program.

PHILANTHR. CLUBS // CITY COUNCILS Post-IYONS presentation at your venue or via Skype.Option for cooperation to equip and mentor schools.Option to connect with programs that you support.

SPONSORS

✔ your logo in our IYONS publications, website

✔ exclusive contents for your print, digital media, company newsletter, staff and their families

✔ your logo on YOUTH LEADER CAMP banner

✔ options for ✔ personal greeting in our IYONS publications✔ photoshoots✔ YL Speaker(s) at your gala event✔ long-term cooperation

BANK DETAILS

PLEASE INDICATEthat your contribution is

FOR IYONS THE NAME

of your favorite hero/ine

In case of questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Emailfunds@youth-leader.org

Phone+49 152 18630 760

Skypeeric.youth-leader

PAYPAL YL Fund for IYONS: fund@youth-leader.org For Eric's air travel and expenses: eric@jpberlin.de

IN NORTH AMERICA tax-deductibleVia our IYONS Charity Partner BEGUNAHI Foundation, who use 100% of your donation for flight bookings and visa costs.

BANK: Central Minnesota Credit Union BANK ADDRESS: 20 South 4th Avenue East, Melrose, Minnesota, 56352 ABA OR ROUTING NUMBER: 291974204 ACCOUNT HOLDER NAME: Begunahi ACCOUNT NUMBER: 8101060203

IN EUROPE tax-deductiblevia a our IYONS Charity Partner Foerderverein Friedensfesti-val Berlin e.V. (Peace Festival Berlin); same as above, 100%.

ACCOUNT HOLDER: Foerderverein Friedensfestival Berlin e.V. BANK: EthikbankACCOUNT NUMBER: 311 1199 BANK NUMBER: 830 944 95IBAN: DE26830944950003111199BIC: GENODEF1ETK

FOLLOW UP

Our meeting has direct influence on our work in North America & Europe.

Under Eric's guidance, we get to know each other's hearts, solutions, magic and co-design YL's epic youth leadership program „Change Generation Rising“

TEACHERS use our media and „live“ services in units. STUDENT CLUBS take monthly action with us.

WE COLLABORATE „live“ via Skype, UN Day webcasts, on social media, at events, summer camps and as local chapters.

Make Youth Leadership part of Learning Culture in your City's Schools

✔ Finance 100 Starter Sets for 100 classrooms(cardgame, 48 hero/ine posters, teaching tools) $ 2,000

Or connect us to potential investors in youth:clubs, sponsors, city marketing...

Optionally, contribute expertise and manpower

✔ Mentor / Partner Company Offer project development workshops, in-kind sponsoring, prizes, involve staff to support YL Club campaigns.

We can scale this program to all your city's schools, combine it with „live“ events, campaigns, with focus or urgent local issues and opportunities and more.

Contact us to make it happen for your city!

Bonus Fundraiser

On occasion of IYONS being in INDIA, we invite you to support Babar Ali, youngest headmaster in the world and Rotary World Literacy Hero Award laureate

Babar's story

At age 9, Babar started teaching younger peers too poor to attend school what he had learned in the morning. Babar's mission soon evolved into a full-fledged school with adult volunteers, serving 1,000 students in his parents' backyard, many of which completed high school, some went to college, some are now teachers at his newly built school.Read more and view videos at http://bit.ly/1e6fihJ

Babar's selfless service has earned him recognition as

Indian of the Year CNN IBN India's Real Hero Rotary World Literacy Hero Award a unit in the English text book

Let's give Babar's school ✔ a library – do a book drive at your school!✔ laptop computers – used ones are fine!✔ a (used) projector for films, skype, village

cinema, making the school a community centre

Contact us to get involved.

APPENDIX

The Youth Profiles

ADORA SVITAK

Multimedia Profile link

Pacific Standard Magazine described Adora as one of the "30 Top Thinkers Under 30," going on to call her "an activist for feminism, liberal politics, and youth-oriented causes [...] pretty far up the road to becoming intellectual royalty."

She is a 2011 recipient of the National Education Association Foundation's Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education.

In 2014, she served as a Youth Advisor to the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC.

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ Multimedia Profile link

HBO - "Saving Our Tomorrow"

Showtime- "Years of Living Dangerously"

PBS - "Statewide Ban on Fracking"

HDNET - International TV One Hour Special on Xiuhtezcatl

2013 Presidential Youth Council

2013 Young Indigenous Warriors

Award

2013 Indigenous Youth

Environmental Activist Award

2012 International Eco Award

2012 Peace Maker of the Year Award

RACHEL PARENT

Articles about Rachel link

Biography link

Multimedia Profile link

CANADA

• Post City Magazine, Toronto Top 20 Under 20 2014

• Clean50 Summit, Toronto Emerging Leader 2014

• NOW Magazine, Toronto Environmental Heroes 2013

• Elle Quebec Magazine Our Woman of the Year 2013

USA

• Three Dot Dash, Global Teen Leader 2015

• Just Label It, Washington, DC Right to Know Champion

AVALON THEISEN

Biography link

Multimedia Profile link2014 Humane Student of the Year Award by Animalearn

2014 Summer of Service Award by Youth Service America

2014 Florida Achievement Award by the Florida Commission on theStatus of Women

2014 WEDU Be More Inspiring Rising Star Award

2013 SBN International Youth Award

2013 Greening Forward Earth Savers Club Award

2012 Temple Grandin Award

Radio Disney Heroes for Change Award (5/13)

2012 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes

CASSANDRA LIN

Biography link

Multimedia Profile link

MTV Switch Award

Rhode Island School Recycling Club Innovations Award

Brower Youth Award

President’s Environmental Youth Award

NYLC Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Excellence Award

Nickelodeon HALO Award

RHIANNON TOMTISHEN

Multimedia Profile link

United Nations Forest Heroes Award

Brower Youth Award

Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes

Sea World Environmental Excellency Award

Giraffe Hero Commendation

CHLOE MAXMIN

Multimedia Profile link

Brower Youth Award

Gloria Barron Prize

Focus feature of the Sundance Channel’s award-winning eco-documentary, “Big Ideas for a Small Planet,”

“Green Hero” by Rolling Stone for her climate activism.

Chloe has been featured in

The New York Times

NPR

Bill Moyers

Bloomberg

Real Time with Bill Maher

Chloe writes for The Crimson, The Nation, and other publications.

EMMA & JULIA MOGUS

Multimedia Profile link

The sisters have been featured on CBC THE NATIONAL, CBC News, CTV Canada AM, Global Television Thunder Bay, TVO KIDS, CHCH TV, City TV, CBC Metro Morning Show, CBC Radio Here and Now and other media.

The Helen Keller Fellowship Award (2015, Lions International)

The Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award

Paul Harris Fellowship (2014, Coburg Rotary Club)

Top 20 under 20

Louise Russo W.A.V.E. Youth Award

International Diana Award

Ontario Heritage Trust’s Young Heritage Leader Award

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

Peace Medallion Award

TVO KIDS ‘Super Citizen’ Award

BABAR ALI

Multimedia Profile link

CNN IBN India's Real Hero

NDTV ‘Indian of the Year’ Award

His story is part of the syllabus for the CBSE 10th standard English textbook, PUC English textbook for Govt. of Karnataka, and also in a curriculum in Luxembourg, Europe.

He was featured on Aamir Khan’s TV show Satyamev Jayate in July 2012, and is regularly invited to speak at various conferences and forums all over the world.

TED Fellow

INK Conference speaker

ROBYN HAMLYN

Multimedia Profile link

Robyn has not been in the spotlight of official awards, but having convinced 27 cities to pass part or the whole 3-pronged „Blue Community“ Resolution

1) keeping / making water public

2) making water a human right

3) banning bottled water

is beyond awards.

THANK YOU !