· Start making arrangements to attend IYPS2008 - How will you fund your trip? How you can contribute to the themes of the event? Could you volunteer to be a speaker?

· Write an article for the IYPF newsletter about one of the MDGs or your experiences working in one of the MDG areas, and send it to newsletter@iypf.org

· Join the IYPFs Young professionals and Millennium Development Goals network http://projects.takingitglobal.org/ypmdg

· The IYPF is currently looking for a motivated individual to join the IYPS2008 organising committee specifically working on the Young Professionals and Millennium Development Goals angle. Please contact brittjacobsen@iypf.org for more details

· Arrange a Stand Up Against Poverty event for IYPF members in your country / region for October 17th 2007 – see http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/. Please let us know on iyps2008@iypf.org what you are planning to do and we will coordinate this as an IYPF Global event.

· Join the IYPS Tig Blog http://events.takingitglobal.org/14421 and contribute to our current discussion and vote ion our poll “Young Professionals and the Millennium Development Goals” on the IYPS2008 TIG Blog http://events.takingitglobal.org/14421/discuss/thread/24023