Live It Fund

 

Institute for Global Citizenship
Markim Hall
651-696-6655
651-696-6750 (fax)


Summer Hours
M-TH: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
F: 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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With the help of a Macalester Live-It grant, Caroline Karanja ’12 returned to Kenya to build a greenhouse for girls orphaned by AIDS.

How can we harness the energy and connections that define our moment and place in global historical processes to ensure that all of us flourish?

The Institute for Global Citizenship Student Council created the Live It Fund to empower our peers to embrace the core values of Macalester. Academic Excellence. Multiculturalism. Internationalism. Civic Engagement. How do we draw from these to live global citizenship?

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Students from the inaugural Live It Fund committee share their vision for the Live It Fund.

In designing the Live It Fund we pooled social and financial resources that would facilitate living definitions of global citizenship on our campus and in the wider world. Through an application process, we asked students to define global citizenship and propose a project that would enable them to live it. As usual, Macalester students rose to the challenge.

Twelve proposals from twenty students were submitted. Almost $90,000 were requested to pursue global citizenship in the fund's second year.

Now it is time to Live It.