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Global CommUnity: No One Is Foreign

Making Better Humans Through Travel

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Global CommUnity: No One Is Foreign

Global CommUnity: No One Is Foreign

Global CommUnity: No One Is Foreign

Global CommUnity: No One Is Foreign

Global CommUnity: No One Is Foreign

Making Better Humans Through Travel

Making Better Humans Through Travel

Making Better Humans Through Travel

Making Better Humans Through Travel

Global CommUnity
Global CommUnity
Global CommUnity
Global CommUnity
1 Campaign |
Austin, United States
$1,455 USD 19 backers
1% of $100,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

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.

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.

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.


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.

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.


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.

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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No One Is Foreign T-Shirt

$35 USD
Help us spread the word that No One Is Foreign. Unisex V-Neck Cotton T-Shirt featuring our mantra and logo. When folks compliment your t-shirt, tell them the Global CommUnity story. We’re small but plan to change the world with your help. You also receive a $40 gift certificate toward any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Global CommUnity Logo T-Shirt

$35 USD
Show your global mindset and support for Global CommUnity by wearing this stylish Unisex V-Neck Cotton T-Shirt featuring our logo. Yes, we need you to be a walking billboard, but you’ll look great in this shirt! You also receive a $40 gift certificate toward any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Global CommUnity Tumbler

$60 USD
Cheers! 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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Global CommUnity Doll

$100 USD
When a child 10 years old or younger goes on a Global CommUnity trip with family, the child receives a hand-made doll and storybook about a child at the destination. When we launch this fall (2016) select the doll and destination of your choice, and make a child you love very happy. You also receive a $100 gift certificate toward any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Support Us & Peru’s Deaf Kids

$150 USD
Every Global CommUnity travel itinerary includes a “giving back” experience. In Peru, you’ll have the opportunity to assist at a deaf school in Cusco. $50 of this contribution will go to Holly Wissler, PhD Ethnomusicology, who is creating a documentary to bring awareness and financial support to Peru’s deaf children, who have no education available to them after 6th grade. You also receive a $150 gift certificate toward any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Global CommUnity Duffle

$280 USD
Brighten your journeys with this yellow and black LL Bean large adventure duffle bag featuring the Global CommUnity logo. 2 lb. 4 oz. 15”H x 30”W x 13” D. You also receive a $280 gift certificate toward any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Global Community Pen

$375 USD
Diversity is celebrated with this rare writing instrument made of 13 hand-turned exotic woods from around the world. Writing system refill takes Schmidt or Mont Blanc rollerball. You also receive a $385 gift certificate toward any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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Life Travel Map

$500 USD
Be among the first families this fall to have your Life Travel Map created to long-term plan your key trips around the world. Based on an online survey and personal interview with you and your family members, we create an interactive digital map for you with up to 12 years of trip recommendations and timing. You will also receive a $250 gift certificate toward any Global CommUnity trip you reserve at www.NoOneIsForeign.com.
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