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May 12, 2011 10:10 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

New York City School Students to Examine Role of Media, Technology in International Revolutions

NEW YORK, May 12, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What role did social media really play in the upheavals in Egypt and the on-going conflict in Libya? How did young people embrace technology to create...
April 23, 2011 11:36 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

Global Kids Urges Voters to Learn More About Its Efforts as it Reaches Top 10 in Chase Community Giving Competition

NEW YORK, April 23, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Kids (www.globalkids.org), the premier non-profit educational organization for global learning and youth development, is currently the seventh...
February 03, 2011 11:36 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

Egyptian American High School Students to Examine Crisis With Other New York City School Students

NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The eyes of the world are riveted on the protests in Egypt as President Hosni Mubarak faces more calls to relinquish the presidency. The news especially...
January 24, 2011 12:20 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards Grant to Global Kids

NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Brooklyn Community Foundation, the first and largest organization of its kind devoted exclusively to supporting nonprofits working in Brooklyn, has...
November 11, 2010 15:27 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

Acclaimed International Education Program Expands to Students in D.C. Public Schools

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Internationalists, concerned about polls showing more Americans know who Harry Potter is than Tony Blair (Zogby Poll) and two-thirds of Americans admit to...
September 01, 2010 12:01 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

Global Kids Names Evie Hantzopoulos Executive Director

NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Kids, Inc. announced today that Evie Hantzopoulos has been named Executive Director of the organization, effective September 1, 2010. Ms....
August 11, 2010 10:51 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

Global Kids Youth Fight Environmental and Food Injustice in Brooklyn

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Aug. 11, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Kids is excited to announce that the culminating ceremony for Global Kids' In-School Youth Summer Program, Summer of Service, will take place...
July 21, 2010 16:06 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

NYC Youth Deliberate With U.S. Foreign Policy Experts

NEW YORK, July 21, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Twenty-five NYC youth from neighborhoods such as Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Bronx, and Crown Heights, are engaging in an intensive institute on U.S. foreign...
June 08, 2010 12:56 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

Bronx High School Students Combat Food Injustice, Create Community Garden

NEW YORK, June 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Friday, June 11, 2010, Global Kids students at Fordham High School for the Arts (FHSA) will open their Growing Justice Community Garden. The garden is the...
May 28, 2010 16:53 ET | Source: Global Kids, Inc.

Global Kids Hosts Exiled King of Tibet and Exclusive Screening of My Country is Tibet

NEW YORK, May 28, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Wednesday, June 2, 2010, Global Kids will host a special visit by the seventeen-year-old exiled king of Tibet, Namgyal Wangchuk Trichen Lhagyari, and an...