FeelGood's 2009 Hunger and Leadership Summit

Breaking News - Lynne Twist confirmed as Keynote on Sunday October 25th

Lynne Twist is a consultant, executive coach, award-winning speaker, author, fundraiser extraordinaire and global activist. She has dedicated her life to global initiatives that empower humanity. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands to be more effective in fundraising. Lynne’s methodology is highly applicable to both the private and public sectors.

An original staff member of The Hunger Project, an organization started in 1977 to end world hunger, Lynne served as a leader of this global initiative for 20 years. During those years she created and managed the worldwide fundraising operation. As she traveled the world learning how to work in a multitude of different cultures, Lynne developed profound wisdom about our relationship to money and the way it governs, dominates, and stresses our lives.

Lynne Twist is the author of "The Soul of Money"  a transformational book that unleashes the human spirit. We are thrilled and honored to have Lynne with us this year.

Hunger & Leadership Summit: 

FeelGood’s 4^th Annual Leadership & Hunger Summit will be an intense weekend of hunger education and leadership development for FeelGood’s finest student leaders. 75 FeelGood students from across the country will gather in New York City from October 23-25 to strengthen the FeelGood community, build their leadership capacity, set goals, share best practices and innovate for the sustainable end of hunger. The students will be joining activists from around the world on Saturday for special presentation on The Hunger Project’s empowerment strategies in Africa, South Asia, South America and Mexico and will walk away with a deep understanding of empowerment, gender-focused development strategies. Additionally, the students will take this unique opportunity to network with distinguished professionals from a myriad of fields.

Leadership Development:

Friday Evening, Saturday morning and all day Sunday, FeelGood students will hear from social entrepreneurs and leaders in the non-profit field (Robert Egger from DC Central Kitchen joined us in 2008). They will also participate in 6 workshops concentrated on personal growth, leadership, goal setting, education and overcoming the unique obstacles each student faces. The Leadership Development portion of the weekend is intended to equip the students with tools and resources to be leaders for change on their respective campuses.

The Hunger Project Program & Gala: 

As a special celebration of the students’ hard work and leadership throughout the school year, FeelGood will be inviting all Hunger Summit attendees to the The Hunger Project’s Annual Gala. FeelGood students, along with 500 diplomats, dignitaries and Hunger Project supporters from 24 countries around the world will come together to celebrate the impact of The Hunger Project’s strategies for the end of hunger and abject poverty.

Goals:

1. feel empowered as a changemaker!
2. deepen your commitment to the end of hunger
3. strengthen your understanding of the root causes and key solutions to ending hunger,
4. get the tools to be effective leaders in the fight against hunger on youruniversity campuses and in your professional lives
5. create community and collaboration across all of our chapters
6. empower each student to set goals for their chapter for the coming school year and create a strategic plan for achieving those goals
7. improve your communication of FeelGood’s purpose to: end hunger and create a generation of changemakers. 

Agenda

Hotel: Hotel Indigo, 127 West 28th St New York, NY 10001