Dear Members and Friends of IYPF,

What’s new with IYPF this month? A new website & facebook page! IYPF has been busy developing a new, user-friendly website. Check it out:www.iypf.org. On our website you will find our recent news, ways to get involved the new vision of IYPF in 2011. We have also shifted from a Facebook Group to aFacebook Page, so make sure you ‘like’ us on facebook when you get a chance. 

Membership is easier than ever with our new website. Click here for a simple two step process to become a member. Becoming a member of IYPF is one way to demonstrate your commitment to engaging in change as a professional, but also an opportunity to take the next step and become involved in making a difference. As a member you’ll also join a powerful network of young professionals from over 130 countries across the globe!

We need your help! New ways to get involved. Right now, we are looking for volunteers for a number of projects:

1. We are looking for volunteers to help us plan and prepare for IYPFs 10th birthday in October. Please email sarahvannsander@iypf.org with expressions of interest.
2. IYPF is developing a strategy working group and requires individuals who have valuable insights to share surrounding development projects and non-profits organization. Please email nickbyrne@iypf.org with expressions of interest.
3. We also need volunteers to help us prepare for the International Young Professionals Summit in 2012. We are looking to build an IYPS 2012 organising sub-committee which will be responsible for everything from researching and deciding where the summit should be held to the hands on organising closer to the date. Please email sarahvannsander@iypf.orgwith expressions of interest.
   
   

In the news: IYPF Joins Young Leaders on a New Declaration of Poverty. On April 1st IYPF President Cristian Birzer joined with nineteen young leaders in an meeting with the Governor General, the Honourable Quentin Bryce, AC, to present the By 2015 Declaration, which furthers Australian efforts to reduce global poverty. The Declaration’s title, By 2015, references the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015, and sets out actions for each of the organizations to improve their efforts in the next four years. READ MORE.

IYPF is looking forward to your involvement in as a global citizen, working towards a better world this month!

Your friend, colleague and fellow young professionals,

The International Young Professionals Foundation Board of Directors.

www.iypf.org
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Dear Members and Friends of IYPF,

Welcome to 2011! This monumental year marks the UN International Year for People of African Descent, the UN International Year of Chemistry, the UN International Year of Forests, and the UN International Year of Youth. What an incredible year we have ahead of us, and with merely four years until 2015; the target date of reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), now is the time to gather every international young professional on the planet working for change to inspire, change, create and grow.

Are you excited? IYPF is. IYPF is. 2010 ended on a high with the UN MDG Summit, concluding with the adoption of a global action plan to reach new major commitments to women's and children's health and other initiatives against poverty, hunger and disease. The IYPF ended the year by electing a new Board of Directors to continue the work of renewing and rebuilding the organisation so that it can support, mobilise and connect young professionals in their pursuits of global change and betterment. You can get to know your new Board – all outstanding international young professionals – by accessing their profiles here on our website here.

Our AGM in December was also catalyst for moving forward and you can access the minutes or AGM presentation online. IYPF is in the process of transforming and reforming to better:

• Highlight the powerful position and influence Young Professionals have both inside corporations and through government
  
• Encourage Young Professionals to actively help make a difference
  
• Improve the capacity of Young Professionals making a difference through information, knowledge, & connectivity
  

Are you a Young Professional trying to make a difference? Young Professionals, aged 21 to 40 in their early to middle careers, are ideally placed to influence and capable of driving current and future change in the world. IYPF exists to help Young Professionals realise this potential, to take advantage of this position, and to eventually help them take their place as the world leaders of tomorrow. Becoming a member of IYPF is one way to demonstrate your commitment to engaging in change as a professional, but also an opportunity to take the next step and become involved in making a difference. As a member you join young professionals from over 130 countries across the globe!

Already an IYPF member but have been looking for an avenue to get more involved? Want to give your non-profit or NGO the edge or support it needs? Want to network with like-minded young professionals and established international professionals? Simply have a dream to make a difference? 2011 will be a big year for IYPF and we need as many hands involved as possible. Watch this space for more details of how you can help us, and IYPF can help you, by helping the World.

Your friend, colleague and fellow young professionals,

The International Young Professionals Foundation Board of Directors.

www.iypf.org
twitter.com/iypf
iypf@facebook