As much as it is important to get inspirations from the current leaders, it is also crucial that the young professionals take initiatives in getting involved in our community and become role models themselves. Lead by Example project has been launched to provide Korean American/Canadian young professionals opportunities to give back to our community and become the future leaders of our society.
This project embraces two main branches.
Philanthropy
Firstly, we promote philanthropy by advertising and actively participating in various community events, as well as creating various donation campaigns. By helping the young professionals to get more involved in our community, we hope to raise awareness about various issues and promote the importance of giving back to our community.
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Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research 2012
On Oct. 13th, 2012, JoinTheLeaders New York City chapter members participated in the Annual Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research for two years in a row. The run took place at the Central Park in Manhattan, and it was a 5K fun run for all ages. As before, the purpose of the event is to support the cancer research at the Memorial Solan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York under the name of the Canadian hero, Terry Fox. Like last year, Sukho Chung, Jungsup Lee, and Yongsub Eric Shin participated in the event, with the University of Waterloo team, in order to continue spreading "Lead By Example" initiative in New York.
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Vancouver Sun Run 2012
Vancouver Sun Run is Canada’s largest 10K road race and 2nd largest timed 10K in the world. The Vancouver Sun Run’s primary mandate is to promote health, fitness and community spirit and to support amateur athletics. While the Sun Run is not designated as a charity event, over $1.86 million in proceeds from the Sun Run have been donated to important causes since 1985. This year’s Sun Run was on Sunday, April 15th, with approximately 48900 people participating in the event.
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Quest Food Exchange 2011
The JTL Vancouver Chapter members got the opportunity to volunteer for this unique food exchange program. Alice Kim, Sierra Lee, Susan Hwang, Brian Kang, Chris Lee and Paul Lee partook in the initiative. We were also very fortunate to have Leo Kim, a young Korean-Canadian professional, volunteer with us for the day. Quest had three main operations set up in the Greater Vancouver Area – a large food distribution center and two grocery stores. The volunteering took place at one of the grocery stores, where the volunteers successfully sorted, packed, packaged, and stocked donated food items. This was a meaningful way to connect and make a small contribution to the community.
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North York Harvest Food Bank 2011
On Saturday, December 17th, 2011, JTL members from the Toronto chapter volunteered for the North York Harvest Food Bank just in time for the Christmas season. At the end of the day, the volunteers succeeded in gathering much food donations that will be distributed to those who are in need.
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CIBC Run For The Cure 2011 (Vancouver and Toronto)
The CIBC Run for the Cure is “Canada's largest single day, volunteer-led fundraising event” dedicated to these causes and initiatives. This year’s event took place on Sunday, October 2nd, raising over $30 million nation-wide in 2011. Continuing from last year, JoinTheLeaders’ (JTL) Lead By Example (LBE) has promoted the event in individual regions in the past and has decided to participate as a national team this year in both Vancouver and Toronto to raise the awareness in the Korean-Canadian community and the areas that we live in.
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Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research New York
On Saturday, October 15th, 2011, the JoinTheLeaders members from the New York City participated in the Annual Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research, which happened at the Central Park in Manhattan. This was an annual event in support of the cancer research at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York under the name of the Canadian hero, Terry Fox.
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Love For Japan
In light of the horrific events that have happened in Japan, JoinTheLeaders is taking charge in raising awareness of the devastating situations and collecting funds for our neighbors abroad. We aim to offer a helping hand to those in need in Japan by starting a nation-wide online campaign to educate and raise funds. The online campaign starts with a partnership through the Save The Children via First Giving for their Japan Earthquake Tsunami Children in Emergency Fund.
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Vancouver Sun Run
Run with the leaders and become RUNDERS!! We invited everyone to LEAD BY EXAMPLE by joining our team
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Earth Hour 2011
Climate change is the biggest environmental threat to our planet and the number one concern for Canadians. We are already seeing its impacts. Participating in Earth Hour is a simple way to show that you want to be a part of the solution and sends a powerful message to others that together we can make a difference. JoinTheLeaders team has all participated in Earth Hour 2011
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CIBC Run For Cure
On Sunday morning, October 3rd, 2010, three west chapter members participated in 19th annual Canadian Breast Cancer foundation CIBC Run for the Cure and successfully finished a five-kilometre walk to raise awareness and funds for the breast cancer research.
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Love For Haiti
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake that hit the heart of Haiti buried more than 70,000 bodies without question. Damaging the infrastructure of the poor country’s major city and leaving miserable casualties, Haiti is suffering from the recent disaster; and is in dire need of care. JoinTheLeaders would like to be a focal point in gathering our communty to lead and develop a program in hopes of aiding the unfortunate in Haiti. We ran a fundraising project to encourage the youth and young adults in our community make a difference and donate to World Vision to immediately help Haiti.
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Self-Development
Secondly, we promote everyone’s self-development by embracing the importance of participating in workshops and conferences offered in our community and learning various skills from them. We hope that we can utilize these skills in developing our own leadership and passing them onto the next generation of leaders in the future.
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Future Leaders Conference (FLC) 2012
Continuing from our 2 years participation, JTL's Joseph Kim represented Canada at the 15th Future Leaders Conference, hosted by Overseas Korean Foundation. Read his report now!
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Future Leaders Conference (FLC) 2011
Continuing from our last year's participation, JTL Executive members represented Canada again at the 14th Future Leaders Conference, hosted by Overseas Korean Foundation. Read our report today!
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Global Korean Youth Network 2011
OKF has been hosting Homecoming Program as an annual conference targeted to overseas university students with strong leadership skills to become the next generation of leaders overseas. This remarkable occasion provides Koreans youth from all over the world to gather together and build relationship with their motherland by experiencing Korea through a wide range of activities to learn about the culture and history.
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C3 Leadership Conference
Aspiring young professionals and post-secondary students in our community come together for one day with leaders of various professions and industries at the C3 Leadership Conference. It is a chance for young professionals to launch their careers or discover potential opportunities in an increasingly rich and diverse global community
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Future Leaders conference (FLC) 2010
In its 13 years of existence, OKF hosted a conference with highly influential guests again. Through this conference, the organization hopes to invite future leaders in the areas of politics, society, and economy, so that they can promote growth and strengthen the overseas Korean society.
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OKTA Future Leaders' Trade School 2010
OKTA is composed of many current global business leaders who have built the foundations of Korea's continuing business success. The annual OKTA Trade School is currently the only opportunity for young and upcoming future business leaders to join this network.
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YGTLC 2010
The Sixth Annual Young Generation Technical and Leadership Conference (YGTLC) hosted by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and the Korea-U.S. Science Cooperation Center (KUSCO) is the flagship event for Korean-American young professionals, graduate and undergraduate students. The three-day program includes talks on emerging technologies, speeches from distinguished industry and academic leaders, career development, networking, and leadership programs
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We truly believe that the knowledge and experiences we gain by participating in the Lead by Example projects will help us to grow and develop into true leaders in our society. We ask you to join us and Lead By Example!
Partnership
Are you interested in promoting your project with our "Lead By Example" program? Contact us via info@jointheleaders.com and let's see what possibilities we can make together!