What
Is Global CommUnity?
Global CommUnity will launch in Fall 2016
as an innovative and progressive travel company focused on assisting families
and individuals experience other cultures around the world and get the most out
of these journeys . . . ultimately creating global citizens who are accepting
and supportive of other cultures. The primary goal is to cultivate compassion,
understanding, acceptance and common ground that spans borders and results in a
world where No One Is Foreign.
Wear
Our Message
A $35 contribution gets you either our NO ONE IS FOREIGN t-shirt or our Global CommUnity logo t-shirt. Plus you’ll receive a $35 gift certificate
you can apply toward any Global CommUnity trip that you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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What
Is Unique About Global CommUnity?
Global
CommUnity Life Travel Mapping
Global CommUnity will provide advising
services and interactive digital Life Travel Map tools that will help individuals
and families with young children to smartly plan and map out key journeys over
many years. Clients can choose between
no-cost online resources to map and plan trips themselves or engaging a trained
advisor who will interview the family and develop a multi-year detailed plan of
key trips planned for specific years and dates based on the ideal time to visit
destinations and the recommended ages of children visiting the destinations.
In the interview process, the family
members will identify their most important cultures, destinations and
interests, enabling the team at Global CommUnity to prioritize and schedule
recommended trips.
Cheers! Enjoy The GlobalCommunity Corkcicle Tumbler
With a $60
contribution, receive this 24-oz Corkcicle tumbler that features the Global
CommUnity logo. It keeps cold beverages
cold for 9 hours maintains hot beverages for 3 hours, and it’ll be a
conversation starter to talk about the importance of travel. You also receive a $60 gift certificate
toward any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Pre-Trip
Engagement Materials
Global CommUnity seeks to prepare
travelers before the journey, so that they are engaged and knowledgeable about
the destination before the trip begins. In a world where attention spans are
short and distractions are many, these engagement tools will help parents,
children and individuals learn and get excited about these once-in-a-lifetime
trips and the cultures they’re about to experience.
For traveling families with children 10 years
old or younger, the child will receive a hand-made doll made to look like a
typical child living at the destination for the trip, as well as a booklet that
tells the story of the child. The doll and the storybook will result in young
children better understanding the destination and their peers there. Of course,
parents will learn from the doll and story too.
Be
A Doll & Get A Doll!
With a $100 contribution, you can pick a
Global CommUnity doll and storybook from Italy, India, China, Peru or South
Africa. Plus you receive a $100 gift
certificate you can apply to any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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For teenage travelers, Global CommUnity
will provide fun social media posting content that will subliminally also teach
the teenager things about the destination as they post for their friends and family
to discover they will soon be going on a special trip. Sneaky but effective,
these social media tools won’t fight for attention against teens’ obsession
with social media.
For the whole family, Global CommUnity
will provide digital downloads of movies, books, recipes, music and recommended
local-community activities that are meant to help bring the family together to
take time to learn about the destination before the trip and best prepare their
minds and hearts for the amazing experiences that await them.
Global
CommUnity Itineraries
For key destinations around the world,
Global CommUnity will offer private, packaged trips customized for 1) families
with young children, 2) families with teenaged children and 3) adults only, and
these will be offered in both five-star and four-star versions. Each journey
will be seven days in length with optional add-on extensions. Each seven-day journey will include at least one
key experience of volunteering that will benefit the local people,
environment/wildlife, or cultural preservation. Each journey will provide ample
opportunities to meet and engage with locals.
Support
Us & Deaf Children In Peru
On our Peru itinerary, you’ll have the
opportunity to assist a school for the deaf.
Today you can make a $150 contribution, and $50 will go directly to help
make a documentary that will create awareness and drive support for deaf
children in Peru, who often face really challenging circumstances to get an
education and employment. You’ll also
receive a $150 gift certificate you can apply to any Global CommUnity trip you
reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Global
CommUnity Founders
Global CommUnity founders Christie
Holmes, Keith Waldon and Bryan Glatt have more than 35 years of experience in
the travel business, and all three have incorporated travel as key elements of
their childrens’ upbringing. Keith and
Bryan founded an innovative travel agency called Departure Lounge in Austin,
Texas, in 2013, and Christie joined their travel advisor team. Quickly they were disappointed in the
packaged travel options for younger families that were focused on raising
global citizens. So many travel
providers were focused on baby-sitting or kids club options and not focused on
enriching experiences designed for the whole family and customized based on the
age of the children. That frustration
led to dreaming of what options would be great, and those dreams led to the
concept of Global CommUnity.
Help
Us Carry The Load With This Duffle!
With a $280 contribution, enjoy this
LLBean large adventure duffle bag featuring the Global CommUnity logo. You’ll also receive a $280 gift certificate
you can apply to any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Why
We Need Your Help
Global CommUnity’s founders have spent
the past year interviewing and selecting on-the-ground travel partners (the
very best) at more than 25 global destinations and working with them to design
very special itineraries. They’ve also
sourced the technology needed to assist with the Life Travel Map service,
designed the pre-trip engagement materials (including dolls for more than 25
destinations along with story books that tell a child’s story at the
destination), selected the digital download materials, and created and
trademarked the Global CommUnity brand.
We need funding to purchase the needed
inventory of materials, design and pay for launch marketing, and assist with
first-year operational costs. If you can
assist us by donating to the Indiegogo options, we would be so thankful, and
every donation includes a great item PLUS a gift certificate you can redeem
when you reserve your first Global CommUnity trip. For most options, the gift certificate
enables you to get the full amount of your donation back.
If you are not in a position to donate,
we’d still love your help spreading the world about Global CommUnity. We could have sought venture capital funding
for Global CommUnity, but that route did not feel right. This brand and its unique offerings should be
built as a community effort by those who share our vision.
What
We Ultimately Want To Achieve
We know it sounds ambitious, but we want
to change the world . . . for the better.
We are sickened that in 2016 such strong evidence of racism and hatred
of other cultures is prominent in our mainstream media, social media and
political campaigns. We strongly believe
that the way to change this sad situation is through travel and fostering
opportunities for our children and ourselves to experience other cultures, put
faces with them and ultimately celebrate differences instead of fearing or
hating them. So we want to make
international travel easier and less daunting.
We also want to help people make practical long-term plans to achieve
their mission of creating global citizens of themselves and their children.
Let’s
Ink Your Support!
Celebrating diversity is made very
stylish with this handmade Global CommUnity pen made with 13-hand-turned exotic
woods from all over the world. This beautiful conversation piece is yours with
a $375 contribution, and you will also receive a $375 gift certificate you can
apply to any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Other
Ways You Can Help
Please help us spread the word
(hopefully while wearing one of our t-shirts).
If you know of schools in your area that prioritize international
travel, please send us a note to info@NoOneIsForeign.com, and give us a contact person at the school. If you know any family or family travel
bloggers, please tell them about Global CommUnity and send them to
www.NoOneIsForeign.com. If you know
other individuals and families who will appreciate what we are creating, please
share our info with them. If you know
anyone who would be interested in being a travel advisor in your community to
help sell Global CommUnity trips to individuals, families and through schools,
please contact us at info@NoOneIsForeign.com.
Ready
To Map Out Your Future Travels?
For a $500 contribution, be among the
first this fall to have your interview and custom Global CommUnity Life Travel
Map (an interactive digital map) to plan up to 12 years of key trips around the
world, based on your input and designed by the travel experts at Global
CommUnity. You will also receive a $250
gift certificate you can apply to any trip reserved at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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