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About the ProgramEligible Countries Join the AAGSupport the Developing Regions Membership Fund Annual MeetingMy Community, Our Earth: Geographic Learning for Sustainable Development Online Center for Global Geography Education Journals Exchange Program |
Developing Regions Membership FundHow You Can Help The implementation of a new program of this scale is a large and complicated undertaking, involving the development of new AAG infrastructure for international outreach, materials creation and distribution, language translation, website development, and communications. The AAG has established a tax-deductable Developing Regions Membership Fund, to help fund the infrastructure and staff needed to support the new program and also to provide financial grants for memberships for those developing regions geographers for whom even $20 may not be affordable. A contribution for infrastructure or memberships to this Fund can have a far-reaching impact. A donation of only $100, for example, would support five student members from Latin America for one year. A $1,000 contribution could support AAG membership for ten geography faculty members from Africa for five years. AAG members can also help by informing geographers in developing regions of the new program, and perhaps also by offering to sponsor memberships directly for colleagues, former students, research collaborators, and others who may be interested. AAG Specialty Groups, especially those with a regional focus on a developing region, can play an important role in helping to get the word out about the new program, and also perhaps by sponsoring colleagues from your region of interest. The AAG already has developed brochures in four languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English) describing the Developing Regions Membership Program, and plans more of these in many other languages, including Chinese and Arabic, as funds become available. A Specialty Group may wish to support additional flyers in these or other languages, and also might help with the translations. Copies of these flyers are available from the AAG in hard copy or as a digital PDF file for members who wish to distribute them to colleagues and friends in developing regions. Download a Brochure (PDF): English, Spanish, French, Portuguese For assistance, please contact gaia@aag.org or call 202-234-1450
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