High Resolves

{{Infobox organization

| logo = HR Logo CC&L RGB Large.jpg

| type = Nonprofit
INGO

| headquarters = Sydney,
Australia

| services = Youth empowerment

| leader_title = Co founders

| leader_name = Mehrdad Baghai, Roya Baghai

| name = High Resolves

| founded = {{start date and age|df=yes|2005}}
Australia

| location = Australia, United States, Canada, China

| website = [https://highresolves.org/] HighResolves.org

}}

High Resolves (or the High Resolves Initiative) is an International non-governmental organization for young people.{{Cite web|url=https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/b848808f2450d9cc9c2ef198a59b4c27|title=High Resolves|last=|date=|website=Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission|access-date=November 17, 2018}} The aim of High Resolves programs are to educate high-school aged students in the meaning of being a global citizen.{{Cite book|title=Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World|last=Tavangar|first=Homa Sabet|publisher=Random House (Ballantine Books)|year=2009|isbn=9780345517005|location=New York|pages=69–70}}{{Clarify|date=June 2021}} High Resolves programs emerged from simulations developed by co-founder Mehrdad Baghai and Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling at Harvard University.

History

High Resolves was founded in 2005 by Mehrdad Baghai author of The Alchemy of GrowthBaghai, Mehrdad, et al. (2000). The Alchemy of Growth. Da Capo Press. {{ISBN|0-7382-0309-2}} and his wife Roya.{{Cite web|url=http://mcnultyfound.org/impact/stories/high-resolves|title=McNulty Foundation|last=|date=|website=Impact|publisher=McNulty Foundation|access-date=November 17, 2018|quote=As intolerance and extremism increase, High Resolves teaches high schoolers to rise above.}} High Resolves started as an experiment in Baghai's son's school in Sydney, Australia, and had expanded to at least 350 Australian schools by 2018, having engaged more than 200,000 Australian students since its inception.

In 2014 the Australian Council for Educational Research conducted an independent evaluation of the programs and found: "High Resolves is meeting its intended purposes, namely it is effectively engaging and helping to empower young Australians to take part and be active in their communities".

Program

Collective Action: a series of High Resolves programs for students, which teach personal decision-making skills and encourage critical thinking about social change.{{Cite web|url=https://www.igssyd.nsw.edu.au/blog/collective-action|title=Collective Action|date=2018-08-13|website=International Grammar School Sydney|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-09}}

Collective Identity: an investigation of cosmopolitanism.{{Cite web|url=https://theforest-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/learning-at-our-school/learning-across-the-curriculum/high-resolves.html|title=High Resolves - The Forest High School|website=theforest-h.schools.nsw.gov.au|access-date=2018-12-09}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.gleneagles.vic.edu.au/events/year-8-high-resolves-program-13-153/|title=Gleneagles Secondary College » Year 8 High Resolves Program (13-15/3)|website=www.gleneagles.vic.edu.au|access-date=2018-12-09}}

Justice: an exploration of fairness, especially in the distribution of wealth and poverty.

Awards and honours

Author and venture capital entrepreneur Mehrdad Baghai, a member of the Initiative, was short-listed as a finalist for the first Aspen Institute, John P. McNulty Prize in 2008,{{Cite web|url=https://www.aspenideas.org/session/mcnulty-prize-finalist-mehrdad-baghai-high-resolves-initiative-australia|title=McNulty Prize Finalist: Mehrdad Baghai, High Resolves Initiative, Australia|last=|date=|website=|publisher=The Aspen Institute|access-date=November 17, 2018}} and ultimately was the winner of the award in 2018, the prize's eleventh year, citing extraordinary leadership.{{Cite web|url=http://mcnultyfound.org/ideas/high-resolves-and-mehrdad-baghai-win-the-2018-mcnulty-prize|title=McNulty Foundation|last=|date=October 24, 2018|website=Ideas|publisher=McNulty Foundation|access-date=November 17, 2018|quote=High Resolves and Mehrdad Baghai win the 2018 McNulty Prize}}{{Cite press release|url=https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/10/24/1626490/0/en/High-Resolves-Awarded-100-000-McNulty-Prize-for-Inoculating-Teens-Against-Hate.html|title=McNulty Foundation|last=|date=October 24, 2018|publisher=globenewswire.com|access-date=November 18, 2018}}

High Resolves won the 2015 Patrons Prize in the national Good Design Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/gooddesignaustralia/docs/gda_2015_yearbook|title=Good Design Awards 2015 Patrons Prize 2015|last=|date=2015|publisher=good-design.org|access-date=November 18, 2018}}

Videos for Change Challenge

High Resolves created Videos for Change in 2015{{cite web|url=https://videosforchange.org/|title=Videos for Change Challenge|last=|first=|date=27 November 2018|website=Videos for Change|publisher=High Resolves|access-date=9 December 2018}} to help students to take action and feel empowered to create change in the world.{{cite web|url=http://www.ragtrader.com.au/news/how-a-one-minute-video-changed-platypus-shoes|title=How a one-minute video changed Platypus Shoes|last=|first=|date=11 September 2018|website=www.ragtrader.com.au|publisher=Rag Trader|access-date=9 December 2018}}

The challenge is for young people from high school years 7 to 12 to create a one-minute video on a social issue they feel passionate about. Past participants have covered issues such as social inclusion, racism, domestic violence, gender equality, LGBTQI rights, and bullying.{{cite web|url=https://videosforchange.org/|title=Videos for Change Challenge|last=|first=|date=27 November 2018|website=videosforchange.org|publisher=High Resolves|access-date=9 December 2018}}

Charity status

High Resolves has the charity status of Deductible Gift Recipients (DGR) in Australia{{Cite web|url=https://www.budget.gov.au/2018-19/content/myefo/download/09_Appendix_A.pdf|title=Appendix A: Policy decisions taken since the 2018-19 Budget|last=|first=|date=|website=|page=127|access-date=}} and High Resolves America has 501(c)(3) status in the US{{Cite web|url=https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/dl/FinalLetter_82-2740156_HIGHRESOLVESAMERICA_05252018.tif|title=501c3 letter|last=|first=|date=|website=IRS|access-date=}} which allows for US federal tax exemption of nonprofit organizations, specifically those that are considered public charities.

References

External links

{{Official website|https://highresolves.org/}}
[https://www.videosforchange.org/ Videos for Change Challenge website]