Collaborative Blended Learning

Intergenerational . Intercultural . Experience

​The OUR PRIDE programs are developed by the Global SchoolNet Foundation.  Since 1996, GSN has engaged 5.5 million students and connected schools, youth organizations, and communities across 194 countries, making it the oldest and largest online educational event producer of its kind. The OUR PRIDE Video & Arts Fest is designed to align with core curriculum standards and to support mandates of inclusive education initiatives, which require public school courses be non-discriminatory and integrate factual information about social movements, current events, and history of LGBTQ+ people into instruction.

Through research, collaboration and production, the program creates a new awareness and understanding of history, culture and issues, while directly connecting youth with mentors and elders in a cross-generation learning and personal growth experience. ​​

Dr. Yvonne Marie Andres

Yvonne is a 2017 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee and was named one of 25 most influential people worldwide in education technology for her innovative e-learning projects,   She is the co-founder of the award-winning Global SchoolNet Foundation and creator of International CyberFair and Doors to Diplomacy programs, among many others.

Our History

After years of producing ground-breaking educational programs prior to the commercialization of the Internet, the Global SchoolNet Foundation made history 1995 with the first Live TV / Internet Simulcast.  Watch the two ABC World News reports below. 

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Our Mission
​To cultivate compassion through LGBTQIA+ social action, education and the arts.  

OUR PRIDE Video & Arts Fest

In 2013, we began with the first of two simi-annual interactive Tibetan-style rainbow prayer flag arts installations with LA PRIDE for the 35th anniversary of the rainbow flag, a first youth video competition in 2016, along with the first Troy Perry Awards, followed by a music & literary arts program, "Awakenings," in 2018 with LA Lambda LitFest celebrating the 40th anniversary of the rainbow flag, featuring historic literature readings and music.

​The OUR PRIDE Video & Arts Fest started in 2016 as a youth video competition to a showcase of compassion-focused videos & music submitted by YOUTH (age 19 & under), featuring songs and short videos focusing on personal stories, current issues, social issues, and significant LGBTQ+ people, places and events.

OUR PURPOSE
To create programs and projects elevating issues impacting the lives of LGBTQIA+ people around the world, through arts, educational and community honors programming in association with individuals and partner organizations.  Through this process, we are able to enhance the global Pride movement of compassion and amplify the voices of the LGBTQIA+ community.

OUR GOAL
To cultivate the principle of compassion and the compassionate way of life through three main program areas: arts, education and community awards programs.  In collaboration with our partners, we seek to address issues such as: racism, oppression, colorism, colonialism, corrective rape, conversion therapy, criminalization, discrimination, equality, mental health & suicide, police brutality, refuge & asylum, religious oppression & spiritual abuse, school bullying, transphobia, violence, women's rights, and youth homelessness.
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