Month: January 2022

–GYP Outreach news release Jan 31, 2022

As a member of GYP since 2020, Alan Zhang is a senior from New Jersey. Alan was GYP_PVSA award winner 2021. He is skilled at chess, having played for 12 years and holding the two titles of National Master and Chess Master. Alan tutors a student from China, Tiancheng, and reflects that he is proud of the progress Tiancheng has made since their first lesson. Tiancheng is 16 years old and lives in Shanxi, China. He can’t go to school regularly due to needing to go to the hospital for dialysis every week.

Originally, Alan had intended to help Tiancheng with English, however, he later discovered that working with chess would be a better endeavor for the pair. In the beginning, Tiancheng was unaware of the names and purposes of each chess piece, but now, with Alan’s help, he is able to form strategies and make logical decisions between moves. Alan recalls a lesson in which the way of their lesson was blocked by something all too familiar for most: technical complications. Tiancheng didn’t lose hope, though; he persistently looked for different methods, and eventually found a way for it to work again. Through Alan’s careful instruction, Tiancheng has grown extremely dedicated to chess, and Alan admires how he won’t let anything get in the way of his learning. Here at Global Youth Philanthropy, we provide scheduling flexibility and community service hours for tutors, who can be middle and high school students from anywhere in the world. Alan tells me, “One of my favorite aspects about Global Youth Philanthropy is actually its simplicity. As a senior in high school, I don’t always have a lot of free time, so I appreciate that I don’t have to jump through hoops to arrange my lessons with Tiancheng”.

A big part of GYP’s mission is to create more opportunities for our members across the world to help students with special needs. We hope that you or someone you know will take interest in working with us to uplift any child who could benefit from extra assistance in their educational growth.

Students Board of GYP Students Association has been formally formed and it includes seven members from 6 different cities or towns in the USA.  These seven students board members are high school students from grades 9 to 12.  The initial term is one year in 2022.

Many of them have intensive leadership experiences and many have launched students’ interests clubs in his or her school, or local community.  All of them have involved volunteering activities and local charity programs.    All of them have been participating GYP students’ philanthropic activities in recent years.

The students’ Board will be the key body to decide the direction and yearly priorities of the association.

GYP-Boston Students’ Board Members

As a co-host, Global Youth Philanthropy is promoting the third year “Hanling USA Young Cooking Competition”. It is an online competition and a great opportunity to practice cooking skills and share the cultural understanding of culinary arts. For more information and how to participate, please check our partner’s website at https://hanlininstitute.org/

Global Youth Philanthropy became a formal member of The Massachusetts Nonprofit Network (MNN). This membership offers GYP a better opportunity to cooperate with other non-profits in our area to learn from others.

MNN has more than 600 nonprofit members from every region of the Commonwealth. Among these 600 plus members, more than one hundred are in Youth & Education field. GYP is planning to participate in the activities in MNN actively to give a bigger voice to our own volunteers and students.

At 9 a.m. on January 2, 2022, USA Eastern Time, that is, at 10 p.m. on January 2, Beijing time,  Global Youth Philanthropy will organize the 6th online GYP International Student Forum. The activity is regarded as a New Year celebration and a student exchanges event in a unique field: Talent Show.  Nine students living in Boston, USA; Beijing and Nanjing, China, will demonstrate his or her talents on video conference platform-zoom.  Besides showing their talents,  our students will also share their personal stories of how they started and had a passion for a particular hobby.