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FSD has been described as the “gold standard for global engagement programs.� Our program sites are in six countries and 10 cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. For almost two decades we have supported more than 300 community partner organizations and trained more than 3,000 volunteers. Our community development efforts have maintained an ongoing project sustainability rate of 80 percent, addressing health, social, environmental, and economic issues by responding to community priorities and offering training, grants, and volunteer support to our community partners. In 2012, we supported 242 projects and invested more than $840,000 in our partner communities. As a result, our work directly improved the lives of 142,000 people around the world. From a women’s beekeeping business in Kenya to nutritional education for mothers in Nicaragua and cook stove projects in India, FSD listens to community priorities and supports local leaders to achieve their vision for a better future.
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who we are Founded in 1995, the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) supports community organizations around the world to address local health, social, environmental, and economic issues. FSD believes that development is only sustainable when it comes from empowered communities. At FSD, we raise international awareness of the economic challenges in developing countries and support communities in finding more effective solutions to development issues. Our model incorporates four areas: capacity building, grantmaking, training programs, and Giving Circles. On-site workshops and ongoing technical support led by FSD field staff train our community partners to create economically and environmentally sustainable programs through community assessments, grant proposal development, project design and management, financial management, and monitoring and evaluation. We also connect our partners to local experts and other resources. Our asset-based approach to project design and management leverages local resources before looking externally, emphasizes potentials rather than problems, and favors skill building over large financial awards. FSD’s grantmaking program supports community-driven projects in the sectors of health, gender equity, human rights, environmental sustainability, microenterprise, microfinance, youth and education, and applied technology. Our Intern Abroad, Pro Corps Volunteer, and Global Service Trip programs provide students and professionals with intensive training in grassroots sustainable development while also providing human resources and technical support to our partner organizations. A critical aspect of our approach is our financial model. We have diversified our revenue streams to firmly anchor our mission and ensure financial stability. Our social entrepreneurial model means that the majority of FSD’s revenue comes through fee-for-service programs. We are very proud to say that every year over 90 percent of all donations and grants given to FSD go directly to the communitydriven projects we support in the field. We direct as many resources as possible to our field sites and investments in our partner communities.
OUR MISSION FSD enhances the capacity of community organizations around the world to address local health, social, environmental, and economic issues. We also educate international communities on effective approaches for sustainable community development. TO LEARN MORE: fsdinternational.org
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fast facts
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The first FSD site opened in 1995 in Ciudad
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learning programs with top universities,
was originally a refugee camp after the 1972
such as Northwestern, Stanford, University
Managua earthquake.
of Maryland, and Duke, and partnered with
FSD operates in six countries (Argentina,
more than 25 academic institutions. Since 2008, FSD has partnered with the Sarlo Foundation and the McCarthy Center to
Udaipur, Kakamega, Mombasa, Tola, Ciudad
offer a global service-learning program to
Sandino, Masaka, and Jinja).
University of San Francisco students.
FSD uses a community-based approach
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FSD’s 10 sites are led by Program Directors
to development and invests in local
who are local experts in community
organizations and leaders.
development. This ensures that FSD’s
FSD provides training, small grants, and
support is directed to effective and culturally
volunteer support to a network of 300
appropriate projects. •
Interns in the field have the chance to apply
FSD trains our international partner
for up to $800 in grant money to advance
organizations to design and manage
their projects with their host organization.
economically, environmentally, and socially
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and 10 cities (Salta, Cochabamba, Jodhpur,
community partners. •
FSD has co-designed international service
Sandino, Nicaragua — a peri-urban area that
Bolivia, India, Kenya, Nicaragua, and Uganda)
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FSD’s executive director has worked in more
sustainable social programs. FSD uses many
than 15 countries and at all levels, from
tools from the Asset-Based Community
grassroots to international policy. She has
Development (ABCD) model.
been a leader in global projects funded by
FSD alumni have gone on to win Rhodes,
USAID, the CDC, and the Bill & Melinda Gates
Fulbright, and other merit-based
Foundation, as well as a mentor with the
scholarships; study at prestigious graduate
Clinton Global Initiative University.
schools; work for international development organizations including UNICEF, PSI, DPK, and the World Bank; and even start their own international organizations. •
FSD’s community partners are locally focused and work on initiatives in appropriate technology, gender equity, human rights, microfinance, microenterprise, environmental sustainability, youth development and education, and health.
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by the numbers
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in 2012, fsd...
maintained an ongoing project sustain-
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worked with 15 university partners across
ability rate of 80 percent;
the U.S., including Northwestern University,
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trained its 3,000th student volunteer;
Duke University, and our newest partner,
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worked with 315 local partners, composed
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of grassroots NGOs, community groups,
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funded 242 community partner projects;
microenterprises, and village leaders;
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had 50 percent of our interns recieve
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scholarships to finance their trip abroad;
invested $840,000 in communities around the world;
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Colorado College;
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teamed up with JUMA Ventures to send
placed 308 volunteers with 262 host
eight Bay Area students from low-income
families;
backgrounds to Tola, Nicaragua.
hosted 45 regional workshops and conferences on sustainable development tools, project design, and organizational development;
18 years of FSD 2001
FSD trains its 100th volunteer
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FSD trains its 1,000th volunteer
FSD establishes program site in Cochabamba, Bolivia
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2003
FSD establishes program sites in Jodhpur, India; Tola, Nicaragua; and Masaka, Uganda
FSD organizes first Global Service Trip for University of California, Berkeley
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2004 1995 FSD opens first program site in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua
San Francisco Magazine features FSD’s ProCorps Volunteer program as “Best Volunteer Abroad Program”
FSD establishes program site in Udaipur, India
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FSD establishes program site in Kakamega, Kenya
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FSD establishes Duke University (DukeEngage) partnership at Kakamega site
2000s
2004 FSD establishes first University Partnership with Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio
2005
FSD trains its 500th volunteer
2006
FSD establishes program site in Mombasa, Kenya
2009 FSD codesigns an asset-based community development curriculum for the Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) program with Northwestern University at four FSD sites
2009 FSD acquires the Clarence Foundation and inaugurates its Giving Circle Program
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The Coady Institute invites FSD Executive Director Mireille Cronin Mather to be one of 100 global community development practitioners at its From Clients to Citizens: Deepening the Practice of Asset-Based and Citizen-Led Development conference in Antigonish, Nova Scotia
FSD establishes program site in Jinja, Uganda
FSD expands its university partnerships, including University of San Francisco, Stanford University, and Notre Dame
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2010 FSD and four partners in Nicaragua enter partnership with Mobile and Managua Rotary Clubs to administrate microfinance project funded by Rotary International
2010 GreatNonprofits awards FSD its “Best of the West” title as part of its Green Choice Awards
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The Clinton Global Initiative selects Executive Director Mireille Cronin Mather as national mentor in Economic Development for CGI University students
GreatNonprofits names FSD the Top-Rated Women’s Empowerment Nonprofit in the nation
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2012
FSD establishes a traveling giving circle to our program sites in India.
FSD holds first East African Summit in Kakamega, Kenya
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FSD establishes program site in Salta, Argentina, establishing our second site in Argentina
The Huffington Post calls FSD the “gold standard in international volunteering” in its article titled “Summers of Service”
2010s
2011 FSD alumnus Nick Egger-Bovet wins Davis Project for Peace award, one of dozens of prestigious awards won by FSD alumni
2011 FSD’s partnership with JUMA Ventures results in eight Bay Area students from low-income backgrounds working on environmental projects with Las Salinas Secondary School Institute in Tola, Nicaragua
2012
FSD trains its 3,000th volunteer
2012
LOOKING AHEAD 2012
2014 AND BEYOND
FSD establishes its 25th university partnership with SUNY Geneseo Group Engage in Jinja, Uganda
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FSD continues to establish its international sites and home office as resource hubs in strengths-based approaches and continues to be recognized as a global leader in community development. By building on our social enterprise model, FSD will increase participants going into the field with its international training programs.
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FSD plans to expand its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative as we share nearly two decades of experience with private sector partners to expand ethical approaches to community engagement and social enterprise.
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FSD looks forward to sharing our extensive development experience with — and learning from — like-minded organizations and universities at conferences. With our growing list of university partners, we solidify our title as the gold standard of global engagement and service learning programs.
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FSD looks toward expansion of their program sites in Southeast Asia.
2013 FSD receives grant from the Caridad Partners (Bay Area women’s Giving Circle) to fund three community business cooperatives in Nicaragua, including the first female-led enterprise in the Tola region
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FSD awards three scholarships to public health graduates on behalf of the Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship
Executive Director Mireille Cronin Mather provides webinar for Net Impact’s Issues in Depth, one of dozens of speaking engagements that share FSD’s expertise with academic, development, and social enterprise forums
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community partners The Foundation for Sustainable Development is proud to partner with more than 300 community development organizations to address local health, social, environmental, and economic issues. Our partners are grassroots organizations that focus on local development issues affecting marginalized populations within their region, yet who work with limited resources. Our community partner organizations work with rural and urban populations to implement FSD’s asset-based community development approach. Through the support of small grants, project volunteers, and resource sharing, FSD focuses on strengthening our partner organizations’ existing assets to address the priorities identified by the community members themselves. The beneficiaries are part of the community development conversation from the very beginning as they identify community needs, participate in projects, and work towards the implementation of sustainable solutions to improve their community.
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sectors FSD supports community-driven projects and capacity building initiatives for more than 300 nonprofit community partners within a diverse group of sectors.
appropriate technology
human rights
gender equity
microfinance
microenterprise
health
youth development and education
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environmental sustainability
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program directors FSD'S PROGRAM DIRECTORS SHARE THEIR FAVORITE MOMENTS OF LEADING OUR SITE TEAMS ... Victoria Valle Salta, Argentina “Working with local organizations, projects that require accompaniment, trainings, human resources, and funds.”
George Agarn Mombasa, Kenya “Working on initiatives that are meant to steer development in the communities and learning how these initiatives are bringing change in these communities.”
Mauricio Ramirez Parra Chochabamba, Bolivia “Working with youth who one day might change global politics.”
Maria de Jesus Zepeda Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua “Contributing to the development of my country and teaching foreigners to have a different view of Nicaragua.”
Smita Sawant Jodhpur, India “The freedom to work with communities, where we give inputs to the organization on developing sustainable community based projects.”
Ramiro Adoni Rocha Rodriguez Tola, Nicaragua “My passion is improving people’s quality of life.”
Roma Bhardwaj Udaipur, India
Margaret Nassozi Amanyire Jinja, Uganda
“The opportunity to support NGOs and build capacities for sustainable development, and to teach and learn from people from different countries.”
“FSD’s community partner, WORI, received a Giving Circle grant to conduct training of trainers on reproduction and sexual health.”
Peter Khamusali Ingosi Kakamega, Kenya
Anita Sempa Masaka, Uganda “Working with the University of Maryland Global Service Trip, which has returned to Masaka for the past three years to work with FSD’s partner, REAP, on their model homestead project.”
“Expanding training outside of Kakamega to an organization requesting support in sustainable development.”
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university partnership programs FSD’s formal university partnerships supply students with high-immersion, training-intensive development experience at our international program sites. As of 2013, FSD has partnered with over 25 universities to facilitate three flagship programs (Intern Abroad, Group Engage, and Global Service Trips) that are customized to fit a variety of university objectives while maintaining our core community-based development framework. Our program frameworks and community engagement approach are setting the standard for ethical, reciprocal, and resonant study abroad and service learning programs. FSD’s training programs are used by universities to meet the growing demand of students wanting to engage with global issues and seeking social entrepreneurship opportunities. Now more than ever, universities are approaching FSD for quality partnerships with strong student and community outcomes. Some examples include: •
Intern Abroad: Morehead-Cain Foundation at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Group Engage: Global Engagement Studies Institute at Northwestern University
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Global Service Trip: Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
Claremont Colleges
Gettysburg College
Indiana University
Northwestern University
University of North Carolina,
Duke University
Emory University
Kennesaw State University
University of Maryland
New York University
University of Notre Dame
University of Portland
University of San Francisco
Colorado College
Chapel Hill
Stanford University
SUNY Geneseo
Vanderbilt University
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training programs INTERN ABROAD (Nine to 52 weeks; students and recent graduates) Our Intern Abroad program offers students and young professionals intensive training and comprehensive experience working with an FSD community partner organization on local sustainable development projects.
GAP YEAR (Nine to 52 weeks; pre-college students) Our Gap Year program offers pre-college students outstanding opportunities to work on development projects with our community partners—from nine weeks to a full academic year.
PROCORPS VOLUNTEER (10 days to 52 weeks; professionals with expertise in specific areas) Our ProCorps Volunteer program is an ideal short-term international volunteer experience, where participants work directly with our partners to effectively apply their expertise to pressing community needs worldwide.
GLOBAL SERVICE TRIPS (One to five weeks; groups of eight or more) Global Service Trips allow groups to provide short-term, high-impact support to pressing community development initiatives.
HIGH SCHOOL SERVICE LEARNING TRIPS (One to five weeks; groups of eight or more) High School Service Learning Trips provide a unique opportunity to U.S. based high school students from low-income backgrounds to learn about environmental issues and community development while experiencing personal growth through cultural activities.
TO LEARN MORE fsdinternational.org/trainingprograms
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project examples
El Centro de Rehabilitación Infantil Nutricional (CRIN) Cochabamba, Bolivia Intern: Billy Baumgartner SaludAdelante is an initiative to create a sustainable healthcare system for children in Anzaldo by equipping parents with skills in enterprise, gardening, health, and sanitation as a means of standardizing the nutritional goals in the community. Malnutrition has been a pressing issue for Anzaldo, and community members are the primary actors in putting this eclectic, multi-angle approach to child malnutrition into action.
Changuito Dios Salta, Argentina Intern: Jackson Lee The Pequeños Pasos, Grandes Transformaciónes project was designed to support Changuito Dios, a community day care in an area where violence and drugs are prevalent. By creating training workshops for the daycare staff, the goal of this program is to foster the best possible learning environment for the local children, offering a safe and engaging space for them to develop as well as an alternative to life on the streets.
Municipality of San Lorenzo Salta, Argentina Intern: Brett Dinner
The Municipality of San Lorenzo’s environmental education program in Salta, Argentina holds workshops and distributes educational booklets for students and teachers on the importance of environmental preservation and conservation. The project tackles the increase of deforestation in Salta over the last decade and incorporates conservation practices into the daily lives of Salteños.
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The Prayas Centre for Research and Action Udaipur, India Intern: Amy Koch The Prayas Centre for Research and Action, a local NGO in Udaipur, India, developed a project to curb human trafficking in the surrounding rural villages. Through the use of research proposals, on-the-ground mobile teams, and public seminars, participants work with community members to identify and implement concrete solutions to this human rights abuse.
Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP) Kakamega, Kenya Intern: Christopher Waybill Putting the Rain in Rainforest is a pilot project which uses hydration systems to harness the energy supplied by rainfall. Community members use the energy, especially during Kenya’s abundant rainy season, to bring electricity to its Banda program. The Bandas serve as housing for visitors seeking to explore the Kakamega Rainforest. Outfitting the Bandas with electricity makes Kakamega a significantly more enticing location for tourism, the proceeds from which help to fund other environmentally sustainable projects.
Western Education Advocacy & Empowerment Program (WEAEP) Kakamega, Kenya Intern: Supriya Prakash The Sustainable Beekeeping Empowerment Program (SBEP) empowers women by providing them with a sustainable source of income. In a community where women are often marginalized, it’s difficult for them to find consistent work. By building beehives outside their homes and completing training on the art of beekeeping and honey harvesting, the women have achieved financial independence.
Total War Against AIDS Youth Foundation (TWAAYF) Mombasa, Kenya Intern: Aman Bali The Poultry Farming Against AIDS project addresses issues facing orphaned and disenfranchised youth in Mombasa, Kenya. In collaboration with FSD’s community partner Total War Against AIDS Youth Foundation (TWAAYF), the project uses poultry farming to enhance nutrition, provide professional training, and generate revenue to support TWAAYF’s ongoing community development efforts.
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founder story
Alicia Robb started the Foundation for Sustainable Development in 1995 while working on her doctorate in economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. After numerous volunteering stints in Latin America, she realized that countless community leaders and grassroots organizations were doing incredible work, but were limited in terms of human and financial resources. These were people with full-time jobs who didn’t go home at the end of the day, voluntarily working around the clock to help their communities find a way out of poverty. “It was frustrating to see the limitations these organizations faced because they often didn’t have the needed resources to accomplish their objectives,” said Robb. “After seeing the same situation over and over, I committed myself to starting FSD.” From the beginning, Robb did her homework. She observed other organizational models in action, and quickly realized what she did not want FSD to become: •
A donor organization that funded projects in communities where it didn’t have a physical presence. (Often money is wasted on inefficient or corrupt projects that are insufficiently planned or monitored.)
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An organization that was reliant on grants that could force shifts in vision (a phenomenon known as “mission creep”).
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A volunteer organization that simply connected culturally inexperienced, untrained foreigners with local organizations that knew little about hosting foreigners. (This route is sometimes beneficial to the volunteer, but often fails to build sustainable organizations or empowered communities.)
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A well-intentioned international organization that patronizingly imposed utopian development solutions on communities that had little participation in or ownership of the projects.
Robb wanted FSD to be a development organization that empowered underserved communities to voice their needs and implement locally managed solutions. She worked to create a feedback loop to ensure the flow of communication and resources between community leaders, local grassroots organizations, interns and volunteers, donors, and FSD staff (which is made up of local community leaders and trained practitioners from Western nations). Central to the vision was a binding adherence to the truth that development solutions are only sustainable when they come from an empowered community base. In 1995, after building a sustainable organizational model and development philosophy, Robb established FSD’s first work site in Nicaragua. Five interns worked with local organizations that summer, establishing FSD as a positive community presence and setting the precedent for decades to come.
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“The gold standard of global engagement programs�
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argentina | bolivia | india | kenya | nicaragua | uganda
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executive director
MIREILLE CRONIN MATHER A respected authority on international community development, Mireille’s experience spans programs in 30 countries throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, with field work in a dozen. She brings nearly 20 years’ management and leadership experience in the nonprofit and private sectors, ranging in scope from community-based to international policy levels. Prior to joining FSD, Mireille was a director at the Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a team leader for USAID’s flagship child survival project (BASICS). She has also consulted for major international development organizations and domestic public sector programs and worked in federal legislative advocacy. In 2012, Mireille served as a national mentor with the Clinton Global Initiative University, and she continues to lecture on international development at conferences, universities, and symposia around the country. She has been featured in The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, and Travel & Leisure for her work with FSD, and in BBC World’s Best Documentary 2007, Kill or Cure: Kala Azar 2, for her prior work in India.
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a letter from mireille Greetings, I have been very fortunate to have worked with many of the leading organizations in international development, but when I found FSD, my heart skipped a beat. I had found an organization that aligned perfectly with my values, an organization working with a large network of community leaders and organizations in a way that truly assured their development by investing in their capacities and potential. Since then, I have worked continuously to strengthen our founder’s visionary framework and maintain FSD’s place as a leader in community-based development. The reasons I’m thrilled to be the Executive Director at FSD can be boiled down to a few points: •
FSD’s approach works. Investing in existing organizations and their local programs is highly effective at advancing economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable community development. FSD’s work is part of a growing response to needs-based, top-down approaches that perpetuate a cycle of dependency.
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We listen to and follow the lead of our amazing community partners. Run by local leaders, our partners are true altruists who want to see a better future for their communities and countries in the areas of appropriate technology, human rights, gender equity, microfinance, environmental sustainability, microenterprise, health, and youth development and education. They know best what the priorities of the community are and which are the most effective ways to achieve them. Our role is to help facilitate change; we listen to them and leverage their knowledge while sharing our expertise in sustainable project design and management.
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Our mission-driven team is a remarkable part of a dynamic and growing global community. The FSD team members, who work tirelessly at our sites and home office to provide high-quality programs while adhering to our community-based approach, are true leaders in a growing movement toward community-based development around the world. This movement believes that existing capacities and resources can be catalyzed to effect true and scalable social change.
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We get to influence the next generation of global development leaders. At our global sites, across campuses and communities in the United States, and at international forums, we are invited to share our almost two decades of experience with hundreds of established and emergent leaders, which is vital to the future of global development.
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We have the freedom to support a large and growing network. Because of our social entrepreneurial model, we are not restricted to supporting only certain issues, sectors, or geographic areas, and we work with community partners at sites all over the world.
In January 2013, Program Director Peter Khamusali Ingosi was asked to provide training on our approach and tools to a community organization not far from our Kakamega, Kenya site. At the end of the three-day training, some of the participants were in tears. When asked why, they responded that they had never been asked about their priorities or vision for their communities — they had only been told what they should be, and now they were so inspired and enabled to drive their own path to development. This story and thousands more of how FSD has changed the paths of individuals and communities through opportunity and faith in their potential is why I love FSD and believe so strongly in our work. I invite you to join our efforts and be the change you want to see in the world, and give many thanks to those who provide invaluable support.
Mireille Cronin Mather, Executive Director
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board of directors Dr. Marc D. Shapiro Chair
Michelle Chackerian
Chief of Party, USAID’s Global Climate Change Monitoring and Evaluation Project Board of Directors
Dr. Duncan Chaplin Secretary
Founder and President (1998), BMC Diagnostics Corporate Accounts Executive, Hollister international
Brian Hanson
Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research
Director of Programs Research and Operations, The Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies Faculty Member, Northwestern University Department of Political Science
Michael A. Krafft
Dina Winder Treasurer
CEO, M&A Media Group
Director of West Coast Acquisitions and Development, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Member, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants EarthCare Advisory Board
Wingee Sin CFA, CAIA
Katharine Rogers
Director of Global Product Strategy, State Street Global Advisors (Defined Contribution Team)
Member, MedShare Western Regional Council
Dr. Pauline Muchina
Dean Fealk
Senior Partnership Advisor, UNAIDS
Partner, DLA Piper (Global Equality Practice)
Richard H. Fuller
Andrew Noh
Vice President for Field Operations, The Asia Foundation
Consultant, Bain & Company
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Producer, NPR’s “From Scratch”
Bain Civic Fellow, Civic Consulting Alliance
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testimonials UNIVERSITY PARTNER “FSD is one of the few organizations that effectively works toward tangible development outcomes within their international host communities as well as educational outcomes for their university participants. As one of the best buys in this industry, FSD provides rich educational programming, proven health and safety protocols, and competent professional coordination by host country nationals.” —Julie Reed, Associate Director for Community-Engaged Scholarship at the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University
COMMUNITY PARTNER “I am honored to be working with FSD interns. They are amazing and my institution is greatly honored to be working with such great young people. “ —Bashir Mutebi, Masaka Elders SACCO Ltd in Masaka, Uganda
INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS “The single most important thing I learned working with FSD in Kenya and India was that there are no simple solutions. FSD, through its partner organizations and interns, is grappling with some of the most challenging issues the world faces today. FSD’s approach is what makes the organization so special and why I remained so inspired and motivated. Instead of imposing blanket solutions, the organization seeks to encourage and support locally driven initiatives. In my view, that’s the most promising approach existing to address the daunting challenges faced in FSD’s partner communities.” —Lillian Langford, FSD Intern Alumna (Kakamega, 2006) and former International Program Coordinator (Jodhpur, 2008)
DONOR “Thank you for all the work you do, and for giving me an opportunity that not only changed my life but also allowed me to help others and "be the change I want to see in this world"! —Ashley Brooke (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
BOARD MEMBER “I joined the board of FSD because I was very impressed with the mission — to promote sustainable development in the third world through a structured and well-thought-through internship experience. During my first visit to the FSD programs in Mombasa, Kenya I visited the Mwalungage Elephant Sanctuary. This sanctuary epitomizes what is great about FSD — working with local people in innovative ways to both promote the environment and develop a sustainable lifestyle. This sanctuary was created when a number of wealthy Kenyans joined together with some small farmers. The small farmers benefited because the sanctuary helped to keep the elephants off of their land — in addition, they were given some of the proceeds of the tourist trade generated by the sanctuary. And of course the elephants benefited as well. This is only one small step and Kenya will need far more larger scale enterprises to truly develop economically and become self-sufficient — but by helping to participate in projects like this one, FSD volunteers learn about the development process and about how they can help better promote sustainable development in the future.” —Duncan Chaplin (Senior Researcher, Mathmatical Policy Research)
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