Center for Cultural Interchange and Greenheart Blog

Updates, news, stories and events brought to you by CCI and Greenheart.

CCI Exchange Students Plant Trees for Earth Day

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Earth Day Turnbull Wildlife RefugeOn April 22, Earth Day 2010, CCI Area Representative Merle Barr organized a Greenheart project for several of her high school Academic Year and Grants program students. With financial support from CCI, the group planted native species at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Washington State. The group worked hard at planting in very rocky ground!  Read More.

 

Greenheart Travel featured in the Chicago Sun-Times

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Teach in KoreaItching for a change? Want to experience a new culture and get paid? CCI's Greenheart Travel division has an amazing program to teach English in Korea. We even made the Chicago Sun-Times Travel Section! Check out the article and also read more about our teach abroad program

FLEX Student Visits the Pacific Northwest

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/uploadedImages/Greenheart/Greenheat_Blog/keti blog #3- pic1.jpgBy Ketevan Chitashvili, CCI FLEX Exchange Student

Hello dear CCI and Greenheart! My amazing year in America has been continuing and I want to tell you about another unforgettable experience that will stay in my memory forever! My host family and I went on our spring break vacation, so I had a privilege to see America's gorgeous sights, to meet people in other states, to make some friends, and learn more about this country and its culture. Read more...

 

CCI and Greenheart Finalists in Mindful Chicago Awards

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By Joanna Flagler, Center for Cultural Interchange

CCI and Greenheart gathered the community in 2009 to clean up Ohio St Beach.Last month, we asked our Facebook fans to nominate us for Mindful Metropolis' Reader's Choice 2010: Best of Mindful Chicago Awards and they delivered! We just found out that CCI, Greenheart Shop and Emanuel Kuntzelman (our President and Founder) have been selected as a finalist in 10 categories! Read more.

Take a few minutes and vote for us by May 7 at www.mindfulmetropolis.com/vote. Thank you!