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California Connects offers community trainer job opportunities!
The Great Valley Center is seeking full time, bilingual trainers for the California Connects program. A community trainer is needed for each of the following counties: Amador Colusa El Dorado Mariposa Nevada Placer San Joaquin Tulare Yuba Please help us spread the word onthese job openings! The full time positions…
California Connects is underway!
The implementation of California Connects is well underway. California Connects is a program to increase Internet use for California residents not yet connected. The goal of this three-year program is to provide internet understanding and broadband access to over 61,000 California residents! The program is funded by a grant from…
Video: UC Merced’s National Parks Institute Executive Leadership Seminar – 2011
Twenty seven executives in park and protected area management from around the world convened in April 2011 for the second National Parks Institute, a 12-day intensive seminar on leadership, innovation, and organizational renewal. View a video created by UC Merced about the 2011 National Parks Institute. The National Parks Institute…
Join us for the CA Connects Program Launch on March 23 in Sacramento
The Great Valley Center and the Foundation for California Community Colleges cordially invites you to the official launch of California Connects on March 23 at the American River College in Sacramento. California Connects is a three-year program that will increase digital literacy and broadband access in underserved communities throughout the…
National Parks Institute Executive Leadership Seminar Convenes April 2-16, 2011
National Parks, Reserved Lands the Focus of Leadership Seminar MERCED, Calif. — From California’s Sierra foothills to Sweden’s Tyresta forest, the problems facing the world’s national parks and reserved lands are immense and require a new way of thinking. Park leaders from across the globe are being brought together in…
Great Valley Center Highlights, February 2011
Now in its second decade, the Great Valley Center continues to address the challenges of our special place on this earth. We continue to operate programs that seek out potential leaders and lift them to higher levels. We also work to overcome the digital divide as our Pixley Connect program…
Teens Assisiting The San Joaquin Valley Partnership
The San Joaquin Valley Partnership is working with Pixley Connect to promote jobs and education for adults in the San Joaquin Valley. With the support of Great Valley Center and the Pixley Foundation the Teen Tech Squad has been assisting with the recruitment in Kern County Delano, CA and hands…
Great Valley Chapter of American Leadership Forum Graduates Inaugural Class
Modesto, CA (May 20, 2010)— The Great Valley Chapter of the American Leadership Forum will graduate its inaugural class at 3 p.m., Friday, May 21, at the Great Valley Center. “I think the new American Leadership Forum is a difference maker for the northern San Joaquin Valley,” said Great Valley…
Applications Sought For Park and Public Land Managers Executive Leadership Seminar
International leaders in park, protected area and cultural resource management from governments and nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply for an Executive Leadership Seminar being offered by UC Merced, the National Park Service, the Institute at the Golden Gate, the Great Valley Center and the National Parks Conservation Association’s Center…