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Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum
Investing in Peace: Public-Private Partnership for the Mission-Driven
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November 10 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Event Details
For those of us who are mission-driven as opposed to money-driven, cultivating sustainable sources of funding for our work can seem a distracting chore. And yet, we all know money matters. This 2nd forum in a series on Investing in Peace will look at how development and peacebuilding NGOs can develop sustainable sources of funding and the organizational capacity to have on-going and significant impact on the societies in which they work. Case studies ranging from the Caucuses and Eastern Europe to Latin America will highlight long-term, civil society projects that have thrived as a result of strong partnerships with the private sector. How can more market-focused strategies and flexible business plans contribute to the success of NGOs on the ground? How can NGOs adapt to achieve their financial goals without undercutting their mission or values?
MODERATOR
Raymond Shonholtz, J.D., President, Partners for Democratic Change
Mr. Shonholtz founded Partners for Democratic Change in 1989, establishing the first of Partners national Centers for Change and Conflict Management. In Fall 2008, Mr. Shonholtz served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., working on foreign assistance recommendations for the incoming Obama administration. In 1976, Mr. Shonholtz established and served as President of the Community Boards Program, one of the first community and school mediation initiatives that brought conflict resolution skills and processes into neighborhoods and schools throughout the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Shonholtz is educated as a lawyer and has an extensive background in legal practice, education, and policy. He serves on several boards of directors and editorial boards, and has written and lectured extensively on the subject of mediating systems, conflict resolution models, and the positive function of conflict in democratic society.
SPEAKERS
Judith Gillespie, Director of Strategic Philanthropy at Search for Common Ground
Judith has several decades of experience in both international development and private sector fund raising. During 2007-2009 she worked with teams to raise more than $100,000,000 USD for both US and international projects in the areas of world justice, democratic governance, youth and children, women’s empowerment and disaster relief. Fortune 100 Corporations, top US foundations, and major gift individual donors all contributed to these worthy causes; some for the first time. Judith’s professional history includes: leadership roles as the founding dean of two colleges; launching, funding and developing the FemiNet women’s network in Asia; successfully pursuing democratic development project work and fund raising in rising Asian, South Asian and North African economies; leading the Fortune 100 Corporate Giving Team at the American Red Cross.
Dušan Ondrušek, Director of Partners for Democratic Change-Slovakia
As Executive Director, Dr. Ondrušek manages a staff of 13 trainers and program managers, and designs and implements training programs for government and civil society leaders in mediation, conflict management, and facilitation skills. He also works as a training consultant for various global organizations, including the U.N., the World Bank, and the International Research and Exchange Board, and organizes seminars on organizational development, conflict management, and alternative dispute resolution, among other topics. Dr. Ondrušek also lectures at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia on cross-cultural communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution and is a widely published author. Previously he worked for the Comenius University Counseling Center and as an external consultant for the Slovak Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, and Family.
PLEASE NOTE
This event will NOT take place at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The CPRF is always held at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Service:
Nitze Building, Kenney Auditorium (1st Floor)
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Johns Hopkins University
1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036
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