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South Korea:

First Reort

Second Report

Africa:

Nigeria

Nigeris Junior Secondary

Ghana

Brazil

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SAGE is global community of teenage entrepreneurs—and their supporters—sharing a common purpose: to make the world a better place.

Breaking News!

  • Individual SAGE students want to earn international recognition for their work? Check out the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award program.

    This program is an exciting self-development programme available to all young people between the ages of 14 and 25. It aims to equip them with life skills to make a difference to themselves, their communities and the world.

    Launched in the UK in 1956 as The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, the Award has now spread to 126 countries. Our goal is to have one million young people participating in the Programme by the end of the decade.


  • Grossman Family from Chico, CA sponsors eight new international SAGE special competitions addressing each of the eight Millennium Development Goals.Click here for more details.

  • Sierra Health Foundation provides SAGE CA with a $25,000 grant to start SAGE in five Sacramento area high schools.

  • SAGE Continental Coordinators recently met in Brazil to plan future SAGE strategy and details of the August 2009 World Cup, to be held in Brazil.

Archived News

Thursday, October 30 - SAGE is the organizer of an international meeting where five SAGE Continental Coordinators and SAGE Founder, Dr. Curt DeBerg, will explain how public and private sector pension plans work in their parts of the world. This event is sponsored by SEBRAE, FUNCEF, and PETROS. The goal is to develop a strategy to help SAGE youth in Brazil learn how to save and invest in the long-term. The outcome of this meeting wil be a booklet authored by SAGE Latin America Coordinator, Magdiel Unglaub. This booklet will be distributed to all high school age youth in Brazil. Also, this booklet will introduce the SAGE program to all of these students.

Friday, October 31 - Five SAGE Continental Coordinators, along with Curt DeBerg, will meet for the first International SAGE Summit. The coordinators are Irina Danikova from Russia, Geena Chung from South Korea, Peter Eimer from USA-Canada, John Lukisa from Zambia, and Magdiel Unglaub from Brazil. They will devise an overall plan for the development of global strategies for the next 3 years.

SAGE partners with NACCE. Click here to see how community colleges can start and fund their new youth development programs.


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SAGE World Cup Website
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World Cup!


The SAGE World Cup FINAL Results 2008 are in!

  •  First Place: Nigeria (Jikwoyi Secondary School from Abuja)
  •  Second Place: South Korea
  •  Third Place: USA (Santa Monica)
  •  Fourth Place: Singapore
"The Arthur Boschee and Evelyn Ball Internation Award for Social Enterprise" results, presented at the 2008 SAGE World Cup, are:
  1. Singapore
  2. USA - Holy Angels Academy, Buffalo, NY
  3. Nigeria - Model Secondary School
The SAGE World Cup Environmental 2008 results are:
  1. Nigeria (Jikwoyi Secondary School from Abuja)
  2. USA (Santa Monica High School from California)
  3. South Korea
Other countries competing or observing: Brazil, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

Countries participating in spirit (but unable to compete because of financial or security reasons): China, Ukraine, Philippines, and Russia.

The SAGE World Cup 2009 will take place in Brazil, and we are looking at having the SAGE World Cup 2010 in Korea.

The SAGE staff (Rob Best, Gen Rose, Liz Wendorf, David Wurlitzer, Lauren Bronson, and me) have had an extremely enlightening and rewarding experience in Abuja, Nigeria. We thank the SAGE Nigeria staff for introducing about 140 students and teachers to Nigerian culture and hospitality.

Thanks for supporting SAGE!

Sincerely,

Curt DeBerg
SAGE Founder

A Big Thanks to our SAGE USA Sponsors!

  Sierra Health Foundation

Sierra Health Foundation

  The Allstate Foundation

The Allstate Foundation

  GotVMail

GotVMail

  The Kenneth Pasternak Family Foundation

  Bank of the West

Bank of the West

  Disney Worldwide Outreach

Disney Worldwide Outreach

  The Jewish Community Foundation, LA

The Jewish Community Foundation, LA

  The Louis & Harold Price Foundation

The Jewish Community Foundation, LA

  Ray Morgan Company

Ray Morgan Co.

  The Grossman Family Foundation

Grossman Family Foundation

  Umpqua

Umpqua Bank

  Steltzner Vineyards

Steltzner

  Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo Bank

  Boschee/Ball Family

  Mary Ginno

  Tom Payne

  Clifford Neill

  Allison Smith

  Jon Olson & Renee Smith

  James Rudd



The Arthur Boschee and Evelyn Ball International Award for Social Enterprise

View Award Details (Word File)

Mr. Jerr Boschee, Founder and Executive Director of The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs (www.socialent.org), has established and will serve as the lead judge for three special awards to be presented at the International SAGE competition each year. During 2007, the prize money associated with the award will be donated by Mr. Boschee and his wife, Linda Ball; by Mr. Boschee’s brother, Ken Boschee, and his wife Jean; and by Jerr Boschees’s long-time friend, Christopher Klose, and his wife Claudine.