Share stories. Build leadership skills. Lead dialogues. Serve your community.
Become a One Chicago, One Nation Community Ambassador.
WHAT
One Chicago, One Nation is a local civic engagement initiative that seeks to create a national model for engaging communities across America in building relationships between diverse communities and their neighbors through digital storytelling, community conversations, leadership development and innovative philanthropy that spurs community service for the common good.
One Chicago, One Nation is organized by One Nation, in partnership with The Chicago Community Trust, Link TV, Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), and Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN).
WHO
One Chicago, One Nation is looking for Chicagoland residents, students, and community leaders of all ages to be trained as Community Ambassadors from February to May 2010. Community Ambassadors will build awareness of shared values and encourage collaboration in local neighborhoods.
One Chicago, One Nation Community Ambassadors will be provided with:
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Community Ambassadors will be trained by Interfaith Youth Core and Inner-City Muslim Action Network in:
- interfaith & intercultural dialogue facilitation;
- storytelling
- filmmaking skills; and
- community service strategies.
One Chicago, One Nation Community Ambassadors will organize and facilitate:
COMMUNITY DIALOGUES
Community Ambassadors will facilitate interfaith Community Dialogues, using winning films from the One Chicago, One Nation film contest as inspiration for conversation. Dialogues led by Community Ambassadors, will bring together community members to engage in conversation and to motivate participants to organize community action across interfaith and intercultural boundaries.
One Chicago, One Nation Community Ambassadors will have the opportunity to apply for:
COMMUNITY SOLUTION GRANTS
Community Ambassadors will also help bring local Chicago community-based organizations together to apply for the Community Solution Grants, which will be $10,000 grants provided to fund collaborative interfaith and intercultural service projects.
A total of 20 grants of $10,000 each will be allocated to stimulate social action across diverse communities. Each grant must be sponsored by two organizations to ensure interfaith and intercultural engagement.
One Chicago, One Nation Community Ambassadors will support the:
One Chicago, One Nation
FILM CONTEST, Hosted by Link TV
Community Ambassadors are welcome to submit films to the One Chicago, One Nation Film Contest, hosted by Link TV.
Community Ambassadors are encouraged to submit film submissions as well as solicit two film contest entries from friends, family, or members of the community.
All One Chicago, One Nation Film Contest entrants will create films to share personal stories, based in or about Chicago, that illustrate their understanding of shared values among diverse groups and most importantly, demonstrate solutions to address community concerns, and inspire people of different backgrounds to work together to build One Chicago, One Nation.
To inspire community dialogue, winning films are televised on Link TV (except mobile digital media) and online and are used to spark discussion in Community Conversations. Go to www.linktv.org/onechicago for more details
on the online film contest.
One Chicago, One Nation Community Ambassadors will participate in:
TRAININGS & EVENTS
Community Ambassadors will be trained in small groups on interfaith dialogue, facilitation, storytelling, filmmaking skills and community service strategies from February to May 2010.
The trainings will be held at various locations across Chicagoland, including universities involved in the One Chicago, One Nation initiative.
Community Ambassadors will attend a group Orientation session in April 2010.
Community Ambassadors will participate in Interfaith Youth Core’s Days of Interfaith Youth Service campaign at service sites across the Chicagoland area during the month of April 2010.
Community Ambassadors will celebrate One Chicago, One Nation Film Contest winners at an event at Chicago’s Millennium Park on Thursday, June 17, 2010.
Community Ambassadors will graduate at Takin’ it to the Streets: Urban International Festival organized on Chicago’s South Side by Inner-City Muslim Action Network, on
Saturday, June 19, 2010.
Community Ambassadors will facilitate Community conversations around Chicagoland, using winning films from the One Chicago, One Nation Film Contest to inspire dialogue, beginning Fall 2010.
Community Ambassadors at the beginning of July 2010 may also help bring local Chicago community-based organizations together to apply for Community Solution Grants, which will be $10,000 grants provided to fund collaborations of interfaith and intercultural service projects.
Community Ambassadors will assist in organizing and leading, should they win a Community Solution Grant, service projects designed in partnership with local community-based organizations, beginning Fall 2010.
WE ARE ONE NATION
The more Americans know and understand each other, the stronger and more inclusive our communities become. Bringing together neighbors to work toward a common purpose for the common good, through digital storytelling, service and dialogue. We can better understand each other, break down barriers, and unite around shared values, concerns, and aspirations.
