STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, formerly known as Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, serves as umbrella organization for student groups active in promoting awareness advocating for an end to the current genocide in Darfur, Sudan and working to create a permanent anti-genocide student movement. It serves as a guide for student groups in high schools and colleges, helping them to develop their grassroots efforts for Darfur and anti-genocide activism, to unify their message and to coordinate efforts. STAND has become a student movement that encompasses over 600 college, university, and high school chapters across the United States and around the world. Each new STAND chapter is formed independently by students at their respective institution. STAND national seeks to unify, resource and empower all of these chapters so that, together, these individuals and communities can prevent and stop genocide.
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Each STAND group is comprised of dedicated and energetic students concerned with raising awareness, fundraising, and advocacy for the genocide and humanitarian issues in Darfur, and the world. The coordination of these groups by STAND national helps improve the impact students across the globe can make on government policy, the situation on the ground in Sudan, and the permanent prevention of genocide in our world.
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STAND is headed by a student Executive Director and a Managing Committee comprised of student leaders in schools across the US who work on the issue’s different elements such as programs, resources, media, advocacy and outreach.
Through an extensive outreach network, comprised of six outreach coordinators on both the college and high school levels, STAND national works to coordinate, unify and stay in touch with the vibe of the student movement so that it can best provide strategic guidance and resources. A Student Coordinator works as a full-time staff person and supports STAND’s efforts to promote consistent, effective student action.
In Pittsburgh there are 6 Univsersities and Highschools with STAND chapters, and 1 univsersity with a AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL club. All of them work together in creating awareness throughout pittsburgh and surrounding areas. Fundraising along with many other events are just a few things these students do. Many of them have traveled to Washington D.C., and New York City for Rallies and Marches. They are a very deticated group of individuals.
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