groupes en action

a sanctuary for poor and homeless women

Linked with Kip Tiernan – USA, and with Why are people homeless.

Rosie’s Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women, offers both emergency and long-term assistance to women who have nowhere else to turn.  Established in 1974, Rosie’s Place is committed to welcoming each guest with respect and unconditional love.  Rosie’s Place accepts no government funds, and relies instead on committed volunteers and private supporters to accomplish its effective and innovative work. (Homepage).

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Online giving;
Programs;
Events: Friday, December 19, 2008 /7:00 p.m.;
The women’s craft cooperative;
news and media;
the tour;
Advocacy;
Childworks;
Kip Tiernan Fellowship;
Newsletter Archive;
Address: Rosie’s Place, 889 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA, 02118, USA;
Contact: Tel 617-442-9322, Fax 617-442-7825, on the website.

About /Fact Sheet: Since 1974 poor and homeless women have found an oasis of hope and nourishment at Rosie’s Place.  The mission of Rosie’s Place is to help women maintain their dignity, seek opportunity and find security in their lives.

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A Social Science and Policy Research Institute

The International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) is a world leader in the study of violent group conflict. Established in September 1982, the Centre was a pioneer in the field of conflict studies and research when the subject of conflict was not the fashionable subject for academic research and teaching that it is today. The work it has done covers South Asia and many other parts of the world which is also unusual for a think tank located in a small developing country. However, ICES also soon concluded that the study of violent group conflict needs to be studied and understood in its broader socio-economic, political context and global context. Thus the focus of the ICES soon widened to encompass a much broader research and publication agenda that extended to, among other things, sustainable development, governance and gender. The ICES vision is animated by six themes: … (full text Profile).

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Research /current projects, and past ICES’ projects;
Publications;
Profile;
Library & Documentation Centre;
Sri Lanka database;
Board of directors;
Address: ICES, 554/6A, Peradeniya Road, Kandy. Sri Lanka;
Contacts.

About / ICES History – A narration by Prof K M de Silva:

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anticipating and influencing global future

Linked with Are We Cruel, Stupid or Just Shameless.

SFG undertakes long-term research contracts on scenarios and future options for countries, regions and sectors. It delivers its output in the form of:

• confidential or public reports, policy briefs, electronic updates;
• personal briefings at the board or committee level.

Its research is most relevant for:

• Governments and corporations that want to engage with a new country, region, or sector and want an insight into the long-term prospects for a given geography;
• Governments, political parties, security management organisations that want to explore new long term risks and opportunities for their own societies.

… (full text Services/Research).

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Sitemap;
Publications and Research;
Initiatives;
Seminars;
Other projects;
Media;
Archives;
Partnerships;
Global Security and Economy: Emerging Issues, 2008;
The Inclusive World Forum;
Jobs;
Newsletter;
Address: Strategic Foresight Group, C-306, Montana, Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri West, Mumbai 400 053, India;
Contact.

About: Strategic Foresight Group is a think tank engaged in anticipating and influencing the future in uncertain times. It produces scenarios, creates policy concepts and facilitates political processes. It advises governments and business leaders and informs the public on future trends as well as discontinuities.

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a simple one page site – but full of friendship (photo)

Added Nov. 20, 2008: Linked with Civil Rights Movement Veterans.

We are an organization of former civil rights workers who were active in the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. We were staff and volunteers for CORE, SCLC, SNCC, NAACP and other organizations. In the years since, we’ve all gone our various ways but regardless of where we are now we consider the Movement to be one of the defining experiences of our lives.

The bonds we forged in danger, struggle, defeat, and victory neither rusted, nor withered with age. In our hearts we still stand in that Band of sisters and brothers in a circle of trust. Those of us who served in the Southern Freedom Movement and associated northern support centers are in a very real sense veterans of America’s second civil war. And like veterans of other wars, we wonder where our old friends have wandered and how they have fared. And also like veterans of other wars, some of us suffer from forms of post-traumatic stress syndrome and others of our brothers and sisters have fallen on hard times.

We don’t have a Veterans Administration — but we still have each other … (full text Homepage).

Contact on the Homepage: Tel. 510.658.6271 and e-mail.

Established in 1981, the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership pursues a bold mission: “to foster leadership excellence through scholarship and education, with special attention to advancing the leadership of groups historically underrepresented in public life.” The vision that informs our work at the Academy is of a world where able leadership has resulted in peace, social justice, environmental sustainability, and shared prosperity – locally, nationally, and internationally. (Mission). /mission.html

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Events;
Academic Programs;
Professional Development;
People;
Resourcers;
Research Centers;
Address: James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, 1119 Taliaferro Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7715, USA;
Contact.

About: Have you ever marveled at the apparent ease with which a world-class musician, dancer, or athlete performs at a level beyond what most of us can attain? The things they do can seem almost magical.

Of course, we know that what looks so easy is a result of a deep commitment to excellence, demonstrated through in-depth study of their craft, in self-awareness and self-discipline, and in skills well honed by practice.

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