Mark your calendars!📅🍂Our Fall event round up is here and we have some inspiring programs and events for the approaching autumnal weather. Teen takeovers, poetry readings, Polio Day, Educator Socials and Sanitation galore! Explore our events page to RSVP and learn more: https://lnkd.in/ghF-fzQD
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🌍Want to drive change in your community and beyond? Join us for "Creating Connections", a free panel discussion with young changemakers moderated by the Gates Foundation's Kim Ironroad (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe), Senior Program Assistant, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Connect with speakers, organizations, and like-minded members of your community to learn how you can take action!🌟 International Rescue Committee United Way of King County Success Cohorts Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS) Seattle University's Alfie Scholars Urban Native Education Alliance When: Thur, Oct 10, 5-7PM RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gU8UeY5Q
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Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez recently spoke to ParentMap on the power of art and what it takes to be a true hero. We are SO excited to host him on Oct 1, 4-7pm, for a conversation with Isabel Muñoz-Colón, senior program officer at the Gates Foundation’s WA State Initiatives. Together, they will delve into the transformative power of storytelling and the importance of representation in media. Read his interview: https://lnkd.in/gSBfZDSp RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gA9apbFu
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The tea on the street is that we're co-hosting Drag Loteria alongside Entre Hermanos and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's employee resource groups, Latinos in Philanthropy and Out for Good! Join us for a fun and fierce night of glamour, games and guacamole that will have you cackling. Oct 8, 5-7pm. Free! 🃏🏳️🌈 RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gAkrpJsN
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Celebrate Latine/Hispanic Heritage Month with a conversation between writer, artist and philanthropist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez and Isabel Muñoz-Colón, senior program officer at the Gates Foundation’s WA State Initiatives. Together, they will delve into the transformative power of storytelling, the importance of representation in media, and the rich cultural heritage that informs Edgardo’s work. Live music, food and a book signing also included! Oct 1, 4-7pm. Free! RSVP https://gates.ly/3ZnvgOI
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One week from today...Goalkeepers is back! This year's theme: better nutrition for all so that everyone can reach their full potential. You can watch the incredible lineup of speakers live Sept 23, 3pm PT: https://lnkd.in/gFRuU2Ns
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Some of our favorite exhibits are the ones you contribute parts of yourselves to! Our "Share Your Cause" Tree encourages you to share hopes, inspirations or causes that get you to take action. Drop by this week to see what changes our global and local communities are making and add yours! Open Wed-Sat, 10-5pm. Always free.
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#WorldWaterWeek Staff Chat💦🚽🚨This Thursday Aug 29, 2:30-3pm, join Eric Omwanza Momanyi, Senior Program Officer of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene team to learn about the future of sanitation and what changes are actually needed in order to adopt toilet innovations. Always free to the public!
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Everybody poops. It’s universal. Yet 3.5 billion people lack access to sanitation systems that safely manage human waste resulting in disease, disability, and death; amounting to roughly 800,000 people per year! The sewage systems that people do have access to are aging quickly. However, there are sustainable sanitation innovations on the horizon including Georgia Institute of Technology G2RT reinvented toilet. This #WorldWaterWeek Patrick McMahon and Doulaye Kone talk some sh*t about our current systems and where we can go from here.
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You may know that only female mosquitoes bite and transmit malaria, but do you know what year that was first discovered? To round out #MosquitoWeek we've got one more bite of trivia for you. Take your best shot in the poll below and the answer will be revealed tomorrow!
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