What is the Dustin’s GreenHouse Globetrotter Program?
The Globetrotter Program is a creative comprehensive approach at broadening students’ horizons through philanthropic service, cultural education and strength and endurance training. The Globetrotter curriculum combines in-country activities (that focus on leadership development, skill building, teamwork and mentoring), with an international travel component, which leads teams of students on journeys around the world. Since 2003, the Globetrotter Program has worked with close to 100 Guilford County students and has led these teams to Guatemala, Uganda, Ecuador, Peru, Romania and Hungary.
Mission of Dustin’s GreenHouse:
Similar to how a gardener nurtures flowers in a traditional greenhouse, Dustin's GreenHouse plants seeds of hope and opportunity in the lives of North Carolina students. We use innovative travel, academic and mentoring programs as a means of enabling under-served and under-recognized students to invest in their personal, educational and professional potential.
Information on the 2010 DGH Globetrotter Team:
- Focus: What is responsibility?
- Pre-Travel Program Activities Include: Leadership Development, Skill Building, Teamwork, Mentoring
- Travel Destination: South Africa
- Travel Dates: July/August 2010
Selection Criteria:
Dustin’s GreenHouse targets under-served and under-recognized high school students in Guilford County. We define under-served as those students whose demographic, geographic and/or economic characteristics impede or prevent their access to academic, social and professional opportunities. We define under-recognized as those students whose family dynamics, individual personalities and/or feelings of self-worth limit their academic, social and professional potential.
- Impact – The effect/influence the opportunity could have on a student’s life
- Need – The financial constraints in a student’s life and the limitations those constraints create
- Contribution – Unique skills, personality traits, perspectives and/or background a student brings
Submission Information:
- All Submissions should include a completed Nomination Form, Student Application and Leader Application.
- Student Nomination forms can be completed by a teacher, counselor, administrator, church or civic leader and even a peer. Every student must be nominated by an adult (We do ask that Nominators are not related to their respective applicants.)
- Leaders do not have to be nominated.
- Answers to questions can be typed or hand-written on the application on on a separate sheet of paper.
- Methods for submission include:
- Mail: 5009 High Point Rd, Greensboro, NC 27407
- Fax: 336-854-4209 (Please include a cover-sheet made to the Attention of Dustin’s GreenHouse.)
- Email: info@dustinsgreenhouse.org (Please include “DGH Application” in the subject line of the email.)
- Online: www.dustinsgreenhouse.org
- Deadline for submission is December 31, 2009.
- Next Steps: All applications will be reviewed by the DGH Advisory Board and interview-invitations will be given to selected individuals.
- Questions about the program or this application can be emailed to martin.green@brij.net (Please note “DGH Application” in the subject line of the email.)
Nomination and Application - Nomintation Form | Student Application | Leader Application
