On April 4, the Minnesota International Center and Americans for UNFPA will screen the documentary film Motherland Afghanistan at the Humphrey Insitute of Public Affairs, followed by a panel discussion featuring the filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi and Americans for UNFPA President, Anika Rahman. A reception (complimentary hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks) prior to the screening.
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The 13th Annual International Women’s Day Celebration will be held on Saturday, March 15th from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota. The event is free and open to the public. This year’s theme is Women Leading for Global Justice.
Keynote speaker Robin Morgan will present “Global Feminisms – The Politics of the 21st Century.” Ms. Morgan is an award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor, and best-selling author of books such as Sisterhood Is Powerful and Sisterhood Is Global. In addition to a keynote speaker, there will be a plenary panel, “Women and Indigenous Communities: The Struggle for Human Rights.” Panelists are Senator Mee Moua, Teresa Ortiz, and Laura Waterman Wittstock. Senator Amy Klobuchar is also expected to make an afternoon appearance.
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This newly created position will manage quality, data, and all operational processes required to produce quality food products. Performs audits of facilities, offsite packing events, and vendor locations to ensure conformance to established processes and specifications. Commitment to support the Christian mission and goals of Feed My Starving Children. Works out of the Eagan, Minnesota location
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1. Manage all procurement activities including vendor assessment, negotiations, and contracts. Develop and manage a preferred vendor process, ensuring accountability, quality, and complaint resolution.
2. Complete and execute materials requirement planning at the site and enterprise level.
3. Direct procurement activities.
4. Manage all site and mobile packing inventories. Ensure that appropriate levels of inventories are accurately maintained.
5. Collaborate with development personnel to secure gift-in-kind material donations and discounts.
6. Manage and coordinate all domestic freight operations. This includes in bound freight and all offsite packing operations. Coordination of international outbound shipments will be as required.
7. Assist the Director of Operations in developing strategies and tactics that improve operations across the entire supply chain as it relates to the production and distribution of FMSC food.
8. Supervise procurement and warehouse personnel as assigned.
9. Perform additional duties as required.
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ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:
Lutheran Partners in Global Ministry (LPGM) is a mission advocacy organization that connects individuals and congregations with global mission opportunities. Based on partnership concepts of both giving and receiving, Lutheran Partners encourages people to grow in faith and witness by expanding their world. LPGM works with congregations in global mission education and advocacy, partners with existing churches and organizations throughout the world in worthwhile, dynamic and meaningful projects and exposes individuals directly to mission through travel and relationship building. LPGM’s largest project is a child sponsorship program with 1900 children sponsored in India. Currently we also have projects in Argentina and the Central African Republic.
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Field Visits: Perspectives from ARC’s Field Program in Liberia
Featuring Eve Lotter, ARC volunteer
The American Refugee Committee (ARC) works with more than 300,000 people in Liberia. Join us to hear from ARC volunteer Eve Lotter, who supported ARC’s gender-based violence prevention programs in Liberia for the past 7 months. Eve will share stories of people who are taking back control of their lives in Liberia as the country rebuilds. She will also discuss ARC’s programs in the region and share footage from ARC’s participatory video project “Through our Eyes.”
WHEN: Friday, January 4, 2008, 12:00-1:00 PM
WHERE: American Refugee Committee (ARC) Headquarters, 430 Oak Grove Street, Suite 204, Minneapolis. ARC’s office is located in the Loring Park Office Building–see map here:
**RSVP REQUIRED: call Beth Schmieg at 612-607-6464 or email rsvp@archq.org
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ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:
The McKnight Foundation is a private family foundation established in 1953 by William and Maude McKnight. The mission of the Foundation is to improve the quality of life for present and future generations through grantmaking, coalition-building, and encouragement of strategic policy reform. The Foundation organizes its work in six program areas—Children and Families, Region and Communities, Environment, Arts, International, and Research. The Foundation granted about $93 million in 2006.
JOB TITLE: Program Director - International Programs
LOCATION: Twin Cities Metro
SALARY: 105,600-112,000 TYPE: Full Time / 3 hours DEADLINE: 01/04/2008
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ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:
AFS Intercultural Programs is a volunteer-based multi-national, non-governmental organization dedicated to peace through the promotion of worldwide intercultural learning and living experiences primarily for high school students. AFS volunteers are instrumental to fulfilling the mission of the organization principally through local, community-based involvement in hosting, sending and fundraising programs.
JOB TITLE: Regional Hosting Coordinator
LOCATION: Twin Cities Metro
SALARY: $31,000 TYPE: Full Time / 35 hours DEADLINE: 12/14/2007
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The Microfinance Alliance would like to invite you to join us in a discussion with Viviana Salinas-Lanao from the Grameen Foundation (see foundation mission and bio below). Viviana will give an overview of what the Grameen Foundation is doing and share her experience, which includes work in the field as a microfinance practitioner.
When: Monday, November 19th, 12:30 - 1:30 PM (bring your own lunch!)
Where: University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
321 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN
Room 1-147 (1st floor)
Questions contact 612.518.8156.
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Grameen Foundation’s mission is to empower the world’s poorest people to lift themselves out of poverty with dignity through access to financial services and to information. With tiny loans, financial services and technology, we help the poor, mostly women, start self-sustaining businesses to escape poverty. Founded in 1997 by a group of friends who were inspired by the work of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, our global network of microfinance partners reaches over 4 million families in 25 countries.
Viviana Salinas-Lanao
Program Officer
Viviana Salinas Lanao manages the relationships with GF partners in Mexico, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. Viviana joined GF in July 2006 after graduating with an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. Prior to studying her MBA, Viviana worked at Citibank del Peru for over four years as a Credit Analyst and a Relationship Manager for the Corporate Bank division. She has a bachelor degree in business administration from the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima. Viviana also has previous work experience with microfinance in Latin America. She interned with FINCA Peru in 1998 and FINCA International in 2005. As a research intern with FINCA International, Viviana conducted an impact assessment of the FINCA affiliates in Nicaragua and Guatemala. In 2005, she served as a country leader for the Dominican Republic for the Global Microentrepreneurship Awards which is organized by the UNDP, Citigroup and several schools including Harvard Business School.
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Organization Summary: Global Volunteers is a private, non-profit, non-sectarian international human and economic development organization. Founded in 1984, Global Volunteers sends teams of short-term volunteers to work on long-term development projects in local communities on six continents. Based in St. Paul, MN – USA, Global Volunteers is in consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC and partners with more than 200 local organizations worldwide. Focusing on community-driven development, Global Volunteers mission is to wage peace and promote justice through mutual international understanding.
Job Title: Volunteer Coordinator
Location: St. Paul area
Salary: $35,000 - Benefits: full medical and dental coverage, generous PTO, 403(b) available.
Type: F/T
Deadline: Open until filled
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Summary of position: This position exists to assist people who contact Global Volunteers by providing them oral and written information about Global Volunteers’ service programs and Philosophy of Service. The principle function is to facilitate a decision making process whereby prospective volunteers are able to make an informed commitment to participate on a Global Volunteers service program, both financially and physically. This is a challenging and very rewarding position whose specific responsibility is to recruit volunteers to participate on short-term service programs.
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