VoteSmart: A political debate for 50 young leaders

Summary

This project provides 40 young leaders the opportunity to meet with nominees for presidents/representatives of main political parties in Costa Rica towards 2010 national elections.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $10 was raised for this project.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The problem: Lack of youth political engagement and participation in civic life. Where? Costa Rica Solutions? A national political debate with nominees for presidents/representatives of main political parties, a network and database of youth, NGO’s and the local community

Activities

Certified youth participants -- Networking and Database Encourage and support youth from the Debate to become active in civic life Link leaders from different organizations with each other to create a network to promote political debate.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $10

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $10 .  The original project funding goal was $10,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will build a network of young leaders to keep promoting political debate in Costa Rica. This network can create and maintain a database where young leaders and organizations can collaborate to promote new politics.

Project Message

Youth Political Action for Social Change
- Ignacio García, Project Staff

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Lina Mata
Project Leader
Del Parque de la Amistad 2 cuadras N, 1 cuadra OE
Rohrmoser, San José 54-1200
Costa Rica
6189244860
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

GERN (Grupo de Estudios de Realidad Nacional) Logo

GERN (Grupo de Estudios de Realidad Nacional)
Street 1
Rohrmoser, San José 54-1200
Costa Rica
(506)8834-5928
http://www.realidadcostarricense.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Costa RicaCosta Rica and can also be found under Economic DevelopmentEconomic Development.

For more information about Costa Rica, read the Human Development Report on Costa Rica or the Wikipedia entry for Costa Rica.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 16, 2009