Global Agents for Change is an organization that seeks sustainable solutions to global poverty, while inspiring youth to create a better world.

We provide an environment, programs, and structure for young people to discover, debate and engage with critical global issues.

We are creating innovative and exciting opportunities for youth to engage and discuss critical global issues, while inspiring others to do the same. While building the world's largest youth managed microcredit fund, our major programs include:

1) Riding to Break the Cycle - an...
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We are creating innovative and exciting opportunities for youth to engage and discuss critical global issues, while inspiring others to do the same. While building the world's largest youth managed microcredit fund, our major programs include:

1) Riding to Break the Cycle - an annual 7 week, 3000 kilometer cycling tour from Vancouver, Canada to Tijuana, Mexico. Participants have raised over $100,000 for microcredit initiatives to date, and inspired thousands to think about global issues in the context of their lives.

We are adding an additional cross-Europe route in 2009, expanding to 5 routes by 2012.

2) The University Microcredit Challenge

Teams of 2-5 students are seeded with $100 "microloans" and given one week to leverage this loan to create as much social change, and raise as much money as possible. At the end of the week all loans are repaid, and the remaining funds raised remain in microcredit funds controlled by the students of that campus, and lent to individual developing world entrepreneurs through our partnership with Kiva.org.

3) Young Agents Program

Annual awards, funding and mentorship for youth aged 12-18 with projects capable of scale and impact in their local communities.

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- Join our annual Riding to Break the Cycle teams
- Join or organize a microcredit challenge at your school
- Join our young agents program as a mentor or youth with a social change project
- Volunteer to help the organization (over 100 volunteers throwing events, running...
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- Join our annual Riding to Break the Cycle teams
- Join or organize a microcredit challenge at your school
- Join our young agents program as a mentor or youth with a social change project
- Volunteer to help the organization (over 100 volunteers throwing events, running programs, etc.)
- Enter a video in our annual "What would you do to change the world?" video contest (www.memelabs.com/globalafc)
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