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Posted On: Jan 12, 2010
Supervisor: The Executive Director is hired and supervised by the Jubilee USA Board of Directors. Location: Washington, D.C. Summary of Responsibilities: This is a key leadership position overseeing an organization of six staff. The organization is an alliance of more than 75 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, international-development, environmental, labor, and community groups, and more than 20,000 individuals, working for the definitive cancellation of crushi...
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Dec 16, 2009
This report from the European Climate Foundation describes how "Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) could be used as a financing mechanism for climate change mitigation and adaptation for least developed countries (LDCs)." The idea was announced by George Soros at a press conference at COP15 in Copenhagen on 10 December 2009. The document provides ackground information on SDRs, details how such an SDR based mechanism might function, and highlights some open questions and challenges.
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Posted On: Dec 02, 2009
Book Forum Wednesday, December 9, 12:00 p.m. Featuring the author, Carlos Alberto Montaner; with comments by Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow, Independent Institute. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato InstituteAbout the event - Latin America, though poor, is a part of the West. The institutions, pastimes, intellectual history, languages, and belief systems of the vast majority of Latin Americans are ...
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Nov 24, 2009
A joint letter to President Obama from the Connect U.S. Fund, InterAction, USCAN and 1Sky. The letter calls on the President to build on his initiative at the G20 to end fossil fuel subsidies by initiating the phase out of those subsidies in the U.S., and to redirect those subsidies to international climate finance efforts.
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Posted On: Oct 30, 2009
Philantropia invites your NGO to participate in a survey that plans to determine if international fundraising provides good opportunities for funding NGO's. The results of the study will be published in December of 2009, and will be made available through Philantropia.org, various list servs, and e-mailed to participants. The survey results will remain anonymous and no personal information will be released. The link to the survey is: http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=56c30d2b-aaff-48...
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Blog
Posted On: Oct 01, 2009
A letter to Mr. Stern from Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President of the Connect U.S. Fund and former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which calls on the Obama Administration to break the deadlock and lead in international negotiations, in order to avoid failure in Copenhagen. The letter highlights this objective as a "financially responsible, moral, and national security imperative for the United States." The details of the letter are informed by key members of...
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Blog
Posted On: Aug 04, 2009
Contact: Michael Stulman, michael.stulman@africaaction.org; 202-546-7961"This letter, endorsed by 18 organizations and 15 independent analyst, urge a new U.S. engagement with Africa. The letter takes much of the rhetoric of President's Obama's Ghana speech and couples it with specific policy prescriptions targeting the U.S. State Department upon the beginning of Secretary Clinton's trip to Africa (August 5-14)..."Source:
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Job
Posted On: Jul 29, 2009
Institute for Policy Studies Communications DirectorDescription: The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive multi-issue think tank in Washington, D.C., seeks a Communications Director to join our growing communications department. The Communications Director will direct and implement communications strategy to support the Institute's mission through tactics that include strategic planning, new media, messaging, and other innovative solutions. The Communications Director reports to the E...
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Job
Posted On: May 05, 2009
The Connect U.S. Fund is seeking a leader committed to our vision of responsible U.S. global engagement and the belief that the whole of NGO advocacy in support of this goal must be greater than the sum of its parts. The Connect U.S. Fund is a foundation/NGO initiative that promotes responsible U.S. global engagement in an increasingly interdependent world through grantmaking and operations that advance critical foreign policy objectives and support an effective, collaborative community of in...
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Apr 24, 2009
In advance of their annual spring meetings in Washington DC this weekend, officials at the World Bank and the IMF pledged Thursday to increase their lending to poor countries, warning that the global financial crisis was far from over. Cato scholars Steve H. Hanke and Swaminathan Aiyar worry about the current tidal wave of interventionism: "Much of the growth of government in the US and elsewhere occurs as a direct or indirect result of national emergencies such as wars and economic slumps. ....
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Mar 16, 2009
The London Summit of G-20 leaders in April will address the global financial crisis. This briefing paper by Neil Watkins of The Jubilee Network outlines how the wealthy nations should address global poverty and help mitigate the impact of the financial crisis on developing nations.
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Posted On: Mar 03, 2009
Like many of our community members, the Connect U.S. Fund has been looking over the horizon at some important international meetings and events for 2009 and beyond. To keep track, we have started compiling as many as we can find in our new resource, The Datebook.This spreadsheet can be sorted by date, organization, or issue area to help community members find out what is going on in a variety of organizations and bodies that shape how the United States engages with the world. We will be updat...
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Tool
Posted On: Feb 18, 2009
This regularly updated resource tracks the official actions of President Obama on the issues of relevance to the Connect U.S. Fund community. "Presidential Actions" are defined as per the critera on the Presidential Actions section of the White House website, and currently include Executive Orders, Presidential Memoranda, and Presidential Policy Directives. If you notice any missing information, please feel free to contact Francesco Femia at ffemia@co...
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Directory
Posted On: Feb 18, 2009
A list of the key foreign policy-related appointments and potential appointments in the Obama Administration, including source information, updated daily by the Connect U.S. Fund professional staff. The list includes appointments in the following offices, agencies and departments:Agency for International Development (USAID)Central Intelligence AgencyDepartment of AgricultureDepartment of DefenseDepartment of EnergyDepartment of Homeland SecurityDepartment of JusticeDepartment of StateDepartme...
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Dec 15, 2008
Jubilee USA Network has developed policy recommendations for the Obama transition team. These recommendations have been submitted to the Obama transition team for their consideration.The recommendations in the attached document are mainly directed at the US Department of Treasury / International Affairs division. The issues addressed in the document include: policy towards multilateral development banks and the IMF, poor country debt relief, and sustainable and responsible lending policies...
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Nov 24, 2008
Executive SummaryThe consensus is in: Americans favor a new direction in U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the intersection of national and global security and favors multilateral, cooperative approaches to global challenges.The public recognizes that a foreign policy advancing human dignity and opportunity lays a deeper foundation for lasting security than policies based on cycles of fear and aggression. The U.S. has the resources and national will to play a uniquely constructive role on t...
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Nov 21, 2008
The Managing Global Insecurity (MGI) Project seeks to build international support for global institutions and partnerships that can foster international peace and security—and the prosperity they enable—for the next 50 years. MGI is a joint initiative among the Brookings Institution, the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.Since its launch in the spring of 2007, Managing Global Insecur...
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Other
Posted On: Oct 31, 2008
New "Washington Consensus" won't fix global crisis, state over 630 groups from 104 countries International, October 29th, 2008 - The day before the United Nations (UN) meets to discuss its new high-level taskforce on the global financial crisis, chaired by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and two weeks before the US hosts members of the Group of 20 to address the same issue, a coalition of 630 organizations from 104 countries have issued a statement demanding a truly global response to the glo...
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Report-Paper
Posted On: Oct 27, 2008
The 2008/2009 Top 10 Global Economic Challenges report focuses on the most critical issues facing America’s 44th president. From restoring financial stability to establishing a U.S. policy on climate change and engaging the emerging economic powers, the report contains timely analysis and recommendations by Brookings leading global economic experts.
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Posted On: Oct 27, 2008
John W. Sewell, Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, explains how the next Administration can work with the world to fight global poverty
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