BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Office Manangement Taskforce team decided in their monthly meeting on 23 May
2008 to publish its official newsletter in June 2008. Aziz and Delwar will
mainly be responsible for editorial work. Alamgir and Naimul will collect write
up and provide logistics.The taskforce also discussed about the social artistry
training offered by ICA Nepal in June. Based on Tatwa's confirmation 10 staffs
are expected to join the course.
Aziz is now in the ICA National Staff Training
Program in montréal, Canada attending 6 week-long event along with national ICA
staffs. He greeted from there to all colleagues. He just finished 1st week
ending with ICA history, philosophy, methods training facilitated by Jo Nelson
from Toronto and Swamp Gravy with Joy and Karen from USA. The group is leaving
on 1st June for New Burnswick for attending a conference in Falls Brook Center
and community work in very rural areas. On 4th week they will be in work
placement in Montréal. Aziz is expecting to be in the Mc Gill University Policy
Institute.
Naimul admin@ica-bangladesh.org
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
Duncan Holmes traveled to Vancouver to teach Group Facilitation and Meetings That Work
to full
houses.
John Miller facilitated a 2 day workshop with an Ontario Government
department.
Bill Staples taught Group Facilitation with a group from a public
health department.
Jo Nelson spent the week in Montréal where she taught ICA's
methods and history to a group of people from ICA's around the world.
Wayne
Nelson completed the first stage of a prototype website focused on ToP
Facilitation. This is a global website to promote ToP facilitation around the
world. Please visit at
http://ica-associates.ca/topfacilitation.
Please send your
comments and ideas to improve it to wnelson@ica-associates.ca
Wayne Nelson
NEPAL:
Location: Nepal
This week we have a huge change in the country. We are moving towards being
republic from kingship after 240 years of rule of king. King has been replaced
by the new system as we will have republican government. We are celebrating this
even as the government has given 3 days of public holiday.
ICA Nepal staff are
busy on facilitating local community in far western part of Nepal on
constructing low cost toilets, soak pits and improved cookstoves. They are also
conducting series of interactions on development and social mobilization issues.
MISEREOR has been supporting ICA Nepal for the last 7 years to carry out a
series of development activities in the country.
We are also observing World
Environment Day coming week. ICA is also conducting some programmes on this
occasion. Tatwa has been interviewed by a popular national fortnight magazine
which has a circulation of 100,000 copies on Nepal's role on carbon issues since
this year's slogan is related to carbon and its impact. This week we also
submitted a proposal to IFAD. The two year long project has a budget of US $240,000.
Tatwa ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
UNITED STATES:
Location: Chicago
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Karen Sims, Director of Resource Development |
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The Institute of Cultural Affairs USA is pleased to announce that
Karen Sims has joined the staff of ICA USA as its Director of
Resource Development.
For the last five years Karen Sims has been the Director of Development for the
Schools of St. Benedict. It is the only preK - grade 12 complex in the
Archdiocese of Chicago. The Archdiocese has three schools, two boards, two
Development Committees, two Parent Clubs, numerous and separate fundraising
events, annual fund campaigns, major gift societies, and bequest planned giving
efforts. Prior to that she started and managed a fundraising consulting firm
since 1998.
For a decade prior to that Karen was the Vice President of
Development for the 500 member Executive Service Corps. The Corps is an
association of retired senior executives and is the largest nonprofit management
consulting organization to other nonprofits, public schools, and government
units in the country. In the Chicago area it works with more than 200 nonprofits
a year. Karen was responsible for creating an environment that generated
goodwill, clients, and both contributed and earned income from corporations,
foundations, board members, individuals, friends and volunteers. She applied her
trade at DePaul University where she was Director of the 56,000 member national
alumni association.
Along the way she became an entrepreneur and was a partner
in a consulting firm that specialized in financial marketing. Everywhere that
Karen has worked has become more effective and more financially sound because of
her tenure. Karen is an active member of the Association of Fundraising
Professionals, Archdiocesan Development Council, Donors Forum and the
Association Forum. She is a trained and certified Lay Minster in the Archdiocese
of Chicago. She has conducted Synectics' Innovation Workshops to solve nonprofit
organizations' management dilemmas.
Karen has also written a regularly featured
Development column for the newsletters of the National Association of Lay
Ministers and the National Association of Women Business Owners. In addition,
she is a graduate of Chicago's Second City Training Center in both improvisation
and comedy writing and holds a BA from DePaul University. Karen is married and
they have one adult daughter.
Cheryl Zaleski czaleski@ica-usa.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
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Jo Nelson leading the group in Social Process |
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This week kicked off the beginning of the 2008 International Training Program
for Leadership in Human Development program. The team at ICAI had the pleasure
of spending some time with each of the participants as they arrived, but we all
got a chance to sit down for the first time together over breakfast on Monday
morning. We’re so pleased that Meghan Cox from ICA Canada and Carmen Ruiz from ICA Peru could be here with the other international participants so early in their ICA careers. Welcome!
The past five days have been full of laughter and learning. Jo Nelson
confidently took on the challenge of providing an overview of the rich history,
philosophy and methods of ICA about community development. Joy Jinks and Karen
Kimbrel from Swamp Gravy came up from Colquitt, Georgia to animate a story
gathering workshop on Wednesday. The workshop was topped off by an evening meal
with all the participants, staff, visitors and our cherished volunteers,
followed by a performance by the workshop participants that combined all of
their stories into one hilarious play entitled The ICA Play New Beginnings.
The
participants are off on Saturday for the Falls Brook Centre in New Brunswick for
the second week of their training. Those of us who are staying behind are
definitely going to miss them in the office, but we know they are going to have
a great time and learn a lot.
Just a quick reminder that if you would like to
send messages or encouraging words to ICA members attending the participants
please email us info@ica-international.org. We will read out your message during
the training sessions. For more information, please have a look at the ILHD
program webpage http://ica-international.org/training.htm
And here is one of the first pictures of the event.
Jane jane.leeke@ica-international.org