Here’s the second installment – 5 stories from Kenya and 5 from Colorado!

Local

1. Ten dedicated interns joined The 1010 Project in 2011, offering their many gifts and talents to the team. Students from the University of Denver, University of Colorado – Boulder, and Colorado Christian University provided over 600 hours of back-breaking (but fun and important) labor to the organization.
2. The 1010 Project received two foundation grants for a total of $12,500. 
3. We conducted a presentation at Standley Lake High School‘s PeaceJam event, which focused on global poverty, health, and what we can do to change things.
4. At The 1010 Project, we work hard, but our work can be fun too! On October 1 we were the featured non-profit at the Colorado Rapids (soccer) game. The Rapids beat FC Dallas 1-0 and we raised $760. A winning night all around!
5. With new executive leadership, we’ve spent 2011 developing new strategic and corporate partnerships. Stay tuned to next year for some big announcements!

Kenya

1. The 1010 Project will soon be a registered NGO in Kenya. This will open up new opportunities for the 1010 Network, which will manage this separate-but-united entity in Kenya.
2. Josephine Chavaseki, our Country Director, has completed her first full calendar year with The 1010 Project. She is a community leader, founder of Fair Oaks Academy, and a longtime friend of our organization. We were thrilled to add her to The 1010 Project family in September 2010. Since she joined us, she has overseen both sessions of the Global Entrepreneur Academy and has hired two interns to help her with the operations of the Kenya office.
3. A brand-new Kenyan Advisory Council is providing business knowledge and strategic planning to the 1010 Network. They will continue to steward the creation of The 1010 Project as an official Kenyan NGO.
4. Each of our partner organizations (all fifteen of them) has an endless supply of good news. In 2012, we’ll put more of those stories front-and-center on our website and printed materials so that you can get to know our partners even better.
5. A massive famine took hold in East Africa this year. The 1010 Project does not provide food aid, so when our partners had to close their schools for want of rice and beans, we couldn’t directly assist. But the 1010 Network in Kenya certainly could. Their combined resilience and resourcefulness helped stave off the worst of the famine. Read more about their response here.