We want to share our announcements and invite you to browse our archives. Tickets still available for the 2nd annual Circles of Change Awards Breakfast Join SCG to honor three individuals working for change. November 16, 2007 Purchase your tickets now for our 2nd annual Cirlces of Change Awards Breakfast to hear the inspiring stories of three individuals who are working for peace, social justic, and change in Africa, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East. Three community activists will be honored this Friday, November 16 at our 2nd annual “Circles of Change” breakfast. The breakfast is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Four Points by Sheraton, Denver Southeast at I-25 and Hampden. This year's honorees are: Amal Elsana-Alhjooj is a Bedouin feminist and long-time community activist in Israel. The first Bedouin women in Israel to attend college, Ms. Elsana-Alhjooj is being honored for her impressive and inspiring work to empower women and create change for the Negev Bedouin-Arab population. At the tender age of 17, Ms. Elsana-Alhjooj founded the first women’s Bedouin association in Israel and is today the Director of AJEEC, the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation, located in Beer Sheva, Israel. Denver attorney and community leader Jim Lyons will be honored for his work to promote peace in Northern Ireland through economic development. Mr. Lyons served as the US Observer to the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) from 1997-2001, succeeding former Senator George Mitchell, and as the Special Advisor for the President and Secretary of State for Economic Initiatives in Ireland with the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 2001. In these roles, Mr. Lyons worked to promote cross-community cooperation between the religious traditions and communities in the north of Ireland and was responsible for numerous economic initiatives in support of the peace process, including Aspire Micro Loans for Business, the first micro-enterprise loan fund in Western Europe. The son of two immigrants who rejected apartheid South Africa, former Denver resident Saul Garlick developed an early commitment to advancing social change and is working tirelessly to similarly engage his peers. The 23-year-old will be honored for his efforts, as the founder and director of the non-profit Student Movement for Real Change, to motivate young people to take on the challenges of global health and education in neglected regions of the world. He also serves as Ambassador for the United States for the Buffelshoek Trust, an organization working on community development in rural South Africa. 9News anchor and reporter Bazi Kanani will emcee the morning program. Tickets for the breakfast are $85 per person, $50 of which is tax-deductible; student tickets are $30 each. Last year’s breakfast raised more than $30,000 for SCG youth leadership and peace building programs. Proceeds from this year’s ticket sales will help further these efforts. Please contact Agatha at 303-691-2393 or agatha@s-c-g.org to reserve your tickets to this inspiring event. SCG would like to thank our event sponsors for their generous support and dedication. Presenting Sponsor/Change Agent: Charlie Gwirtsman and Nancy Reichman Associate Sponsors/Bridge Builders: Colorado State Bank and Trust The Firefly Fund Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado Judy & David Koff Lohf Shaiman Jacobs Hyman & Feiger PC Evan & Evi Makovsky Table Sponsors/Supporters of Change: Bravada Partners LLC, The Families of Lester & Cookie Gold and Harry & Marie Cohen Denver Center for International Studies Molly & Michael Frank Friends of Sabeel - CO The Garlick Family and Friends Leed Energy Services Hannah & Allen Levy Lockton Companies, LLC Jim & Marcia Lyons Mary & Peter Peterson Poker Players for Peace RNL Dan Recht & Elaine Selsberg Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP Stephen & Nickie Rounds Unitarian Universalist Announcements Archive Building Bridges for Peace 15th annual Celebration Brunch! August 17, 2008 Tickets available Travel to Israel with SCG to learn about on-the-ground efforts for peace, social justice, and the empowerment of women January 20, 2008 SCG's Trip for Peace, Empowerment, & Change Tickets still available for the 2nd annual Circles of Change Awards Breakfast November 16, 2007 Join SCG to honor three individuals working for change. SCG selected as one of 50 most innovative, creative, and effective organizations for second year in a row! August 15, 2007 21/64's Slingshot 07 Publication 14th Annual Building Bridges for Peace Celebration Brunch August 12, 2007 Reserve your tickets now! SCG's BBfP and Face-to-Face programs receive press nationwide May 2, 2007 Hadassah Magazine and One World Magazine Melodye Feldman receives 2007 Women of Distinction Award May 1, 2007 from the Girl Scouts - Mile Hi Council of Denver BBfP-Denver Program Participants to travel to Northern Ireland in March! February 23, 2007 Help Support Their Fundraising Efforts Feb 23 and March 5 The Building Bridges for Peace - Denver Program February 9, 2007 SCG partners with DPS to create new program for Denver teens 2007-2008 Building Bridges for Peace Program Application February 8, 2007 Now Available Online Introducing the Interfaith Youth Leadership Council (IYLC) January 28, 2007 Seeking Common Ground and the Abrahamic Initiative 2007 -2008 Application for Face to Face/Faith to Faith Program December 5, 2006 Now Available Online SCG presents at international peace education conference in Turkey November 20, 2006 International Conference on Education for Peace and Democrac Inaugural Circles of Change Awards Breakfast November 17, 2006 Inspires Hope and Motivates Change SCG chosen for Slingshot '06 Publication August 15, 2006 Slingshot '06 13th Annual Building Bridges for Peace Luncheon August 11, 2006 SCG Building Bridges for Peace program SCG's first Annual Report Available! July 1, 2006 SCG Annual Report 2005 SCG becomes Member of eBay's Giving Works Program March 15, 2006 eBay Charity Giving Works SCG and BBfP Featured in International Press March 1, 2006 Flair Magazine Denver Foundation Award February 1, 2006 SCG's Executive Director, Melodye Feldman, receives award US Institute for Peace provides SCG with support for BBfP evaluative study February 1, 2006 SCG and the United States Institute of Peace Seeking Common Ground info@s-c-g.org 303.691.2393