Young Professional Network
The Roots of Hope Young Professional Network (YP) is a partnership of YP groups across the country that share Roots of Hope's mission of empowering youth in Cuba to become the authors of their own futures. Each one of our young professionals has the ability to assist us with this project and to reach our goals, we need your help.
Collection Opportunities
There are lots of ways for you to help young Cubans connect with each other.
- Collection Drive
You can start a collection drive at your workplace or on your community. With the help of local businesses or churches, you can place collection bins in those locations. You could also send mass emails at work or set up a collection bin in your cube or office for people to drop off their old cell phones. - Collection Event
You can host a C4C-themed event where the entrance fee is either a used cell phone or a contribution to the Roots of Hope initiative. These could range anywhere from concerts to social gatherings.
Our goal at Roots of Hope is to provide you with the tools to help you spread the word about our project. However, the event logistics are completely up to you! You are free to put your own twist on the programming and come up with something that will work best for you to help put phones in the hands of young Cubans.
Set-Up Process
Contact the Roots of Hope C4C team at c4c@raicesdeesperanza.org and let us know that you are interested in hosting a collection event or starting a collection drive. Once we hear from you, we will begin working with you to develop a collection event or drive in your region, or put you in contact with collection drives that are already going on in your area.
Filling us in on how you're planning to help is important, because the more support we already have, the more support we can convince new partners to give us.
Upon completion of these tasks, your young professionals organization will be given a packet with various C4C promotional materials for you to use throughout your campaign or during your event.
After your collection event, or at designated times during a timeline that we will help you prepare, your organization will inventory and ship phones to our partner, EcoPhones, using their FREE shipping methods. We will send you detailed instructions on how to inventory and ship the phones as your shipping dates approach.
Recognition and Awards
Roots of Hope would like to recognize the young professionals who collected the most phones for this project.
- Recognition on the C4C Website.
- Photo of the Young Professional.
- Article describing the collection techniques, as well as how many phones were collected.
- A guaranteed participant spot at the following year's Roots of Hope Cuba Conference, plus airfare.
- Recognition at the Roots of Hope Cuba Conference.
Questions
If you have any questions, please contact Roots of Hope's C4C people at c4c@raicesdeesperanza.org.
